Document and Media Remediation

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EqualWeb tackles tables, images, flow charts, complicated graphics, and more with ease and professionalism. The content might be diverse, but our testing engineers have successfully remediated every format received. We provide scanning, format conversion, and accessible version control for Section 508 and WCAG compliance. Our expert team of accessibility specialists test and remediate documents, including:

PDFs
Microsoft Word documents
Excel spreadsheets
Powerpoint presentations
Fillable forms

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We remediate documents at all phases, whether in development or ready for release, and provide recommendations to help your deliverables maintain the highest level of accessibility. Our staff is comprised of testers who are Accessibility professionals. They provide recommendations based on how a user with a disability will interact with your document using assistive technologies. This perspective allows our team to find issues that others may miss, while maintaining the look and feel of the original version. We work with you to see which elements might need to the most work by gauging your final audience. We draft the proper alternative text for images, recreate accessible tables and graphs, craft labels for form fields, as well as understand exactly how be conveyed in terms of textual hierarchy and heading styles. The end result is a document that conveys your ideas to the broadest audience possible.

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, or WCAG 2.1, defines how to make web content more usable to people with disabilities.
Individuals with visual, auditory, physical, speech, cognitive, language and neurological disabilities will need assistance when viewing media in your website.

Type of media	Deaf Users	Blind Users	Remarks
A video created or hosted by the customer	Subtitles should be added in VTT format, a new HTML 5 standard that enables assistive technologies to read with different voices for each character.	Headings should be extended, i.e. a description of significant occurrences related to the video.	Make sure all buttons are accessible.
A movie that is embedded from an external source			Make sure all buttons are accessible.
Sound files & wav, mp3 and other formats	Make sure there are captions for an audio file.	Make sure there are captions for an audio file.	Make sure all buttons are accessible.
Flash advertising	Placement of a link that allows users to move to a page that displays the content in an accessible way that can be understood.	Captioned like a video.	Captioned like a video.
Animated GIF (s)	Insert subtitles in VTT format, a new HTML 5 standard that enables assistive technologies to read with different voices for each character.	Headings should be extended, i.e. a description of significant occurrences related to the sound.	Make sure all buttons are accessible.
PDF / WORD documents	Use headers, paragraph marks, bullets, ALT tags to images.	Headings should be extended, i.e. a description of significant occurrences related to the sound.	It is advisable to reduce the use of tables.
Banner files	ALT tags should be provided with alt text for animation.	Use headers, paragraph marks, bullets, ALT tags to images.
Image files: JPG, IMG, TIF	ALT tags should be provided with alt text.	ALT tags should be provided with alt text.
Captcha	Will not be considered accessible without audio.	Will not be considered accessible without audio.