ADA Title II · Final rule, 2024
One deadline.Five formats.Accessibility, handled.
- WCAG 2.1 AA — required by the DOJ’s 2024 rule
- April 2027 larger public entities · April 2028 smaller
- Five formats, one platform — PDF · video · web · Microsoft Office · LMS
- Batch remediation — whole folders of files in one run
- A verification record for every fix
The clock is running
until the next ADA Title II deadline — April 26, 2027, for larger public entities.
Smaller public entities follow in April 2028 · WCAG 2.1 & 2.2 AA · PDF/UA · Section 508
Accessibility isn’t oneproblem. It’s five.
Each fails differently. Each is someone’s course material.
Most tools do one. This does all five, in one place.
- 01 — PDF
The scanned backlog.Scans, handwriting, and forms no screen reader can open. - 02 — Video
Lectures without captions.Recorded courses need captions, transcripts, audio description. - 03 — Web
Pages that fail quietly.Public sites drift out of WCAG with every edit. - 04 — Microsoft Office
The files faculty make daily.Produced faster than anyone can check by hand. - 05 — LMS
Where the risk lives.Every page, quiz, and syllabus, term after term.
01PDF
Real PAC reports
Any PDF in.
PAC-approved out.
- OCR rebuilds scanned and even handwritten pages into real text
- Alternate formats: EPUB, Word, HTML, Markdown, MP3 audio
- A PAC report for the original and the remediated file
- Formulas, chemistry, dense tables — the hard cases included
- Batch remediation — send whole folders through in one run
10 pages free
Click a document to see its full before and after PAC report.
02Video
WCAG 2.2 A / AA / AAA
Watched, read, or heard.
- Captions and transcripts for every video
- Audio description at standard or extended length
- Translation for both captions and audio description
- Upload a file, or pull straight from YouTube or Kaltura
MP4 ≤ 30 min free
03Web
WCAG 2.0 / 2.1 / 2.2 + axe best practices
Problems found before complaints.
- Paste a URL — graded report in minutes
- Automatic fixes, with staff review before anything goes live
- Recurring monitoring of the whole site, with trend charts
- Broken-link and spell checks in the same report
04Microsoft Office
Add-in, inside the apps
Fixed inside Microsoft Office.
- Contrast, alt text, headings, link text — checked and fixed
- See the cost before you approve the fix
- No new habits — an add-in inside the apps faculty already use
05LMS
LTI 1.3 dynamic registration
Every course,
one dashboard.
- Installs from Canvas Admin with LTI 1.3 dynamic registration
- Checks pages, assignments, quizzes, discussions, syllabus against WCAG 2.2
- Writes fixes back through the API — no copy-paste
- Finds unused files before you copy a course to next term
Every fix leaves a record.
Before and after, on file. What you hand an auditor is a document, not an assurance.
- Other tools say “fixed” — ask for the checker report and it either does not exist, or it still fails
- We hand you the proof instead — PDF Accessibility Checker (PAC), run on the original and on the remediated file, so the claim and the evidence arrive together
- We do not call a file fixed until the checker says so — WCAG and PDF/UA decide that here, not a dashboard badge
Fail — before
Pass — after
Administrators set the budget, and watch one dashboard.
One license · one pool of quota.
One budget, distributed your way
Allocate quota to departments and roles from one place.
Usage, exported
Who used what, and what it cost — as CSV or Excel.
A weekly summary
What was fixed, what it cost, in your inbox every Monday.
A voice agent, assigned by you
Grant it per teacher or department; they run the suite by voice.
Plugs into the tools you already run.
- Direct integrations with every platform below
- LMS install via LTI 1.3
- Media pulled from where it already lives
LMS
Video platform
Storage platform
Four ways to meet the deadline.
| Option | Cost | Speed | Coverage | Risk |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Do nothing | $0 today | N/A | None | High, and rising |
| Outsource per file | Recurring, scales with volume | Days to weeks per file | Varies by vendor | The backlog never closes |
| Point tools, one per format | Several licenses, plus training | Mixed | Fragmented | Gaps between tools |
| AristAI Accessibility SuiteRecommended | One license, one central budget | Minutes per file, run in batches | All five content types, plus your LMS | Lowest: proof on file for every fix |
The questions committees actually ask.
01We already have an accessibility checker.
Most checkers only report problems, and usually for one format, often just web. This fixes them, across PDF, video, web, Microsoft Office, and your LMS. The work is in the fixing, not the finding.
02Will this create more work for teachers?
The opposite. It does the remediation; faculty review and approve. It works on the formats they already use (Word, PowerPoint, Canvas), so there is no new workflow to learn.
03Can it really handle our scanned PDFs and messy old files?
Yes, and that is a specific strength. OCR rebuilds scanned and even handwritten pages into real, accessible text. Prove it in a pilot with your worst files.
04We teach chemistry and engineering. Formulas and tables break everything.
Formulas, chemical equations, complex tables with merged headers, charts, and diagrams are all handled, and formula descriptions can be written for listening or for reading depending on the course.
05How do we know it actually worked?
Every remediation produces a verification report you keep on file. For PDFs that is a PAC report against PDF/UA and WCAG, generated before and after, so the improvement is on paper. That is your audit trail.
06We are a Canvas school. Is this a generic tool bolted on?
No. The LMS module reads your courses, checks content against WCAG 2.2, and writes fixes back through the API. It installs from Canvas Admin using LTI 1.3 dynamic registration. Brightspace is supported the same way.
07Do you integrate with the platforms we already use?
Yes. Canvas, Brightspace, Blackboard, and Moodle connect through LTI 1.3; video comes in from Kaltura, YouTube, Panopto, and Vimeo; and files sync from Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, and Box. Content is pulled from where it already lives and fixes are written back — no exporting and re-uploading.
08Why not just train staff to do it manually?
Training helps for new content, but it cannot clear the existing backlog or keep up with volume every term, and quality varies by person. Automation handles scale — whole batches of files are fixed in one run; staff oversight handles quality. Do both.
09We do not have budget this year.
The deadline does not move with your budget cycle. A small pilot costs little and gives you real numbers to plan with, and acting before the rush is cheaper than acting during it.
April 2027 does not move with your budget cycle.
A ten-minute walkthrough, then a two-week pilot on your own files.
— DAYS UNTIL APRIL 26, 2027