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Accessible PDF Maker

Design accessible PDFs at scale in your organization with our easy-to-use design tool

Accessible PDF Maker

Create accessible PDF documents that everyone in your audience can easily use, regardless of their circumstances, disabilities, or impairments.

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Create Accessible PDFs with Ease – Our Templates Make It Simple

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Achieve PDF Accessibility with AI-Driven Design Solutions.

Achieve PDF Accessibility with AI-Driven Design Solutions.

Venngage ensures your documents follow a proper structure by auto-tagging text elements like headings, forms, tables, and lists with appropriate tags. You can also easily adjust these tags to meet specific standards.

Achieve PDF Accessibility with AI-Driven Design Solutions.

Pick accessible colors effortlessly with the power of AI. Our color panel's built-in contrast checker ensures your PDF color choices meet WCAG standards, making your content accessible to everyone.

Achieve PDF Accessibility with AI-Driven Design Solutions.

Ensure everyone can understand your PDFs with AI-powered alt-text generation. Our system automatically creates accurate descriptions for images, illustrations, and charts, making your PDFs accessible to people with visual impairments.

Achieve PDF Accessibility with AI-Driven Design Solutions.

Cover all your PDF accessibility testing needs. Automatically check for compliance issues, like contrast, document language, text tags, and reading order, ensuring your PDFs are accessible to all users, including those with disabilities.

How to Make Accessible PDF Documents in 5 Steps

1
Sign up for Venngage: Create a free account using your email, Gmail, or Facebook.
2
Choose an accessible template: Start with one of our accessible templates designed specifically for PDF accessibility, or explore our vast library of templates and customize for accessibility.
3
Add and refine your content: Insert your text and information. Enhance your writing with AI assistance and ensure optimal readability by checking color contrast with our built-in tool.
4
Incorporate visuals mindfully: Choose from thousands of icons, stock photos, and fonts to make your PDF visually engaging. Utilize AI alt-text generation to provide clear and accurate image descriptions for screen readers.
5
Ensure accessibility before sharing: Use our Accessibility Checker and Visual Simulator to identify and fix any compliance issues. Once your PDF is accessible, download it or share it via a private link.
How to Make Accessible PDF Documents in 5 Steps

Accessible PDFs for Everyone: Venngage Tools Make It Possible

Tags and Structure Simplified

Tags and Structure Simplified

Ensure proper document structure by auto-tagging headings, forms, tables, and lists with appropriate tags. Our tool gives you the flexibility to modify these tags, allowing you to fine-tune the structure to meet specific accessibility standards.

Accessibility Checker

Accessibility Checker

Being the first ever authoring tool to have an in-built accessibility checker, Venngage lets you fix your designs for accessibility issues including setting the right reading order, unified view of all tags, check for missing alt-text, color contrast fails and much more.

Color Contrast Checker

Color Contrast Checker

Getting the right color contrast ratio has historically been possible only with the use of specialized tools and add-ons, however, Venngage now neatly integrates a real time color contrast checker which allows you to see whether the combination you choose is AA or AAA compliant.

AI-Generated Alt Text

AI-Generated Alt Text

Enhance accessibility with our AI-powered alt text generator, which automatically creates descriptive text for images, charts, and graphs. Save time and simplify your workflow!

Visual Simulator

Visual Simulator

Get a preview of how your designs appear to individuals with visual impairments, including complete color blindness, difficulty detecting colors, and blurry vision, using our visual simulator. Make necessary adjustments to enhance the accessibility of your designs for all users.

Expert Support

Expert Support

Got a question? We're here to help. Our support team is available 24/5, so your team can have assistance whenever they need it.

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Create Accessible PDFs with Automatic Compliance Checks

Create Accessible PDFs with Automatic Compliance Checks

Making sense of accessibility guidelines and creating compliant PDFs can be daunting—especially if you're not a professional designer familiar with color contrast and text hierarchy.

Venngage simplifies PDF accessibility. Just click "Check Accessibility" before finalizing your design. You'll get a detailed report on potential issues in your PDF, like color contrast, alt text, tag structure, and reading order, with clear instructions on how to fix them within the tool itself. No design expertise required!

Compliance

We're committed to making our platform accessible and navigable via keyboard. Venngage VPATs show our efforts to align with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 AA standards. These VPATs provide a transparent look at our commitment to inclusivity, ensuring that all users can benefit from our platform.

View our compliance reports:

Infograph Web App VPAT (June 2023)

Editor Web App VPAT (June 2023)

Venngage VPAT (February 2024)
Compliance
Prioritize inclusive design with AI-generated tools

Prioritize inclusive design with AI-generated tools

Accessibility isn't just a nice to have. It creates an equal opportunity for any person to engage with your content. But with most digital design tools, accessibility is an afterthought.

Venngage's accessibility tool makes inclusivity an integral part of the design process. Designing with Venngage will help ensure your content is fully inclusive. No barriers, no one left behind.

Visit the "Accessible" category on our templates page for a wealth of accessible design examples. All the templates in this category follow accessible design best practices. In other words, they have alt text, text tags and correct contrast already applied.

Stay Ahead Of Accessibility Laws

Creating accessible PDF documents is crucial to ensure legal compliance and inclusivity.

Adhering to standards like the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) helps prevent legal issues and ensures that all users, regardless of their disabilities, can access and understand your content.

By meeting these guidelines, your company demonstrates commitment to inclusivity and avoid potential legal repercussions, while also reaching a broader audience.

Prioritizing accessibility in PDF documents not only fulfills legal obligations but also promotes a more inclusive and user-friendly environment for everyone.
Stay Ahead Of Accessibility Laws

FAQs

Can I add proper tags and structure the reading order within the tool itself?

Yes, our tool allows you to auto-tag text elements like headings, forms, tables, and lists, ensuring proper document structure. You also have the flexibility drag-and-drop interface to modify these tags and adjust the reading order to meet specific accessibility standards.

What is PDF accessibility and why is it important?

PDF accessibility ensures that people with disabilities, such as visual impairments or cognitive differences, can easily perceive, understand, and interact with the content in your PDF document. This is important because it promotes inclusivity, equal access to information, and compliance with accessibility standards like WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines).

How do I know if my PDF is accessible?

An accessible PDF meets WCAG standards, which outline best practices for things like color contrast, alt text for images, proper document structure, and more. Venngage's accessibility checker automatically identifies potential issues in your PDF and offers guidance on how to fix them, making compliance easier.

Connect with us to explore how we can enable your organization to create accessible PDF documents at scale

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