Revised Section 508 (36 CFR Part 1194) & Section 504
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Check federal, higher-education (Section 504), healthcare, and contractor PDFs for Revised Section 508 structural tags, fillable form /TU tooltips, table header scopes, and searchable text layers.
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Why fillable PDF forms & complex tables fail Section 508 QA
- Untagged widget annotations: Interactive text boxes, checkboxes, and radio buttons lack
<Form>structure parents and/OBJRobject references. - Missing
/TUspoken tooltips: Visual labels sit next to boxes on screen, but screen readers announce blank fields without explicit/TUdescriptions. - Broken keyboard focus order: Pages with links or form inputs omit
/Tabs /S, forcing Tab order to jump across visual columns. - Complex multi-column tables: Financial and fee tables omit
<TH Scope="Column">/<TH Scope="Row">or leave stray spans directly inside<TR>.
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Does your checker detect fillable AcroForm and scanned OCR barriers?
Yes. The checker inspects /AcroForm field dictionaries for missing /TU tooltips, checks /Tabs /S keyboard focus binding, and flags image-only scanned PDFs that lack searchable text operators.
Can you remediate cryptographically signed government PDFs?
Modifying the tag tree of a cryptographically signed PDF invalidates its byte-range signature hash. We either remediate your unsigned source PDF prior to final signing or remove an obsolete signature lock upon authorization so your team can re-sign the compliant PDF/UA file.
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Submit any 3–10 page non-confidential PDF via our intake form or email halocrypto101@gmail.com for a complimentary 24-hour remediated sample with 0 failed veraPDF 1.30.3 rules.
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Send one 3–10 page PDF or public domain URL. We return a pixel-identical ISO 14289-1 (PDF/UA-1) remediated file with 0 failed veraPDF 1.30.3 rules and an itemized quote.