AppBespoke · Glasgow, working US afternoons

PDF remediation services, priced per page

Tagged, tested, accessible PDFs from $9 a page, checked with PAC and a screen reader, back in 5 business days. Send 10 pages free to see the quality first.

PDF/UA
WCAG 2.1 AA
PAC 2024 checked
NVDA tested

Get a quote First 10 pages remediated free

$9 a standard page · $18 a complex page · $300 minimum order

Why now

Why this landed on your desk this year

Cities, counties, districts, colleges, transit, libraries

The ADA Title II web rule covers state and local government web content, PDFs included, against WCAG 2.1 AA. As extended by the DOJ on 20 April 2026, the date is 26 April 2027 for populations of 50,000 and over, and 26 April 2028 for smaller entities and special districts. Most places have not counted their documents yet.

DOJ fact sheet on the web rule

Government contractors and vendors

Section 508 language turns up in the contract and then in the VPAT, and the deliverable is a tagged PDF that someone on the other side will open with a checker. Remediated files come back as tagged PDF/UA with a PAC report attached, which is what they are asking for.

Businesses and nonprofits with a backlog

A complaint, a procurement questionnaire, or Section 504 if you take HHS funding. Usually the same shape: a backlog of reports, forms and brochures, a deadline someone else set, and no in-house tagger. Price per page, send them in batches, start with the ten free ones.

This page isn’t legal advice. The dates above are the DOJ’s, linked so you can read them yourself, and what your organisation is obliged to do is a question for your counsel.

Included

What remediation actually includes

Every page, both prices. Nothing on this list is an add-on. The complex rate covers harder pages, not extra items.

BEFORETagsNo Tags available↓→
AFTER
Structure
A reader can jump, not just scroll.
The tag tree, the headings and the bookmarks a reader navigates by.
- Tag tree and reading order
  Real tags behind the page, in the order the document is meant to be read, rather than the order the layout program happened to draw it.
- Headings that navigate
  H1 to H6 applied to the actual hierarchy, so a screen reader user can jump through the document instead of arrowing down it.
- Bookmarks
  Bookmarks for anything long enough to need them, matching the heading structure rather than a separate invented one.
BEFOREMicrosoft Word - report_final_v2.docxAlt textimage1.png↓
AFTER
Images and metadata
Pictures that say something.
What the pictures say, and what the file says about itself.
- Alt text on images
  Written for what the image does in the document. Decorative art is marked as artifact rather than described, because narrating a border wastes the reader more time than it saves.
- Language, title and metadata
  Document language, document title, and the title set to display instead of the file name. Three small pieces of metadata that three different checkers fail a file for.
BEFOREScreen reader“cell, cell, 42, 18, cell, 9…”↓AFTER
Tables and forms
Every cell knows its column.
Cells that announce where they sit, fields that carry a label.
- Tables with real header cells
  Header cells marked as header cells, scope set, spans handled, so a cell announces the row and column it belongs to instead of a bare number.
- Form fields and tab order
  Every field labelled and described, the tab order matching the visual order, and required fields announced as required.
BEFOREAutomated checkPassedReading order: not checkedNOBODY READ IT↓→
AFTER
Checks before delivery
Checked by a tool, then by a person.
Nothing goes back on the word of a checker alone.
- PAC pass and a manual read
  PAC 2024 on every file, then a person with NVDA reading it, because a checker can pass a document whose reading order is nonsense.
- Colour contrast flagged
  Contrast measured and reported back with the ratio. Changing a brand colour is your decision, not mine, so I flag it rather than fix it quietly.

THDepartment	TH2025	TH2026
Housing	4.1m	4.6m
Transport	2.8m	2.9m

Watch

What a screen reader hears

What a screen reader makes of an untagged report, the four kinds of work that fix it, and what a 40-page report costs at $9 and $18 a page. It runs silently, so click it for sound.

76 errors0, checked by a tool and then by a person

Before and after

The same file, checked twice

A 40-page public-domain report, run through PAC 2024 before and after. It looks the same either way. The difference is whether what sits underneath it can be read in order.

As supplied

errors, and no tag tree at all

Fails PAC 2024

Remediated

errors, tagged and read in order

Passes PAC 2024

PAC 2024 results for one sample document. Your own files are checked the same way, and the report for each one comes back with it.
PAC 2024 check	As supplied	Remediated
Document is tagged	Not tagged	Tagged
Document title and language	1 error	Pass
Logical reading order	42 errors	Pass
Alternative text	18 errors	Pass
Table header cells	9 errors	Pass
Bookmarks and structure	6 errors	Pass

PAC will happily pass a document whose reading order is nonsense, so passing it is not enough on its own. A person reads every delivered file with NVDA before it goes back.

Pricing

Pricing, per page

Two rates. What is on the page decides which one it falls under, not how long the job took. The quote itemises the split before any work starts.

Standard page

a page

Text, headings and lists
Simple images with alt text
Reading order
Bookmarks, language and metadata

Complex page

$18

a page

Data tables with header cells
Fillable form fields and tab order
Charts and infographics
Multi-column layouts and footnotes

Monthly

Document plan

For a backlog you are working through every month

$750a month

Up to 100 standard pages a month. A complex page counts as two.
3-business-day turnaround on everything in the plan.
Unused pages do not roll over, which is why it is priced below the per-page rate.
Same checks, same guarantee, same reports as a one-off batch.

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What that looks like on a real document

A 40-page annual report, 6 of the pages carrying budget tables. The quote splits it out like this before any work starts.

Minimum order is $300. Below that the admin costs more than the work does, and the 10 free pages are the better way in.

Quote · Annual report 2026Example

A 40-page annual report with 6 table pages: 34 × $9 + 6 × $18 = $414.
Page type	Pages and rate	Line total
Standard pages	34 × $9	$306
Complex pages	6 × $18	$108
Total	40 pages	$414

Itemised the same way on the real thing, so it can be attached to a requisition.

Turnaround, rush and invoicing

Turnaround: 5 business days for up to 200 pages. Larger batches are quoted with a date rather than an estimate.
Rush: 2 business days for 50% more. It buys the queue position, not a shortcut through the checks.
Invoicing: USD invoices, purchase orders accepted, card or bank transfer. The quote is written to be attached to a requisition.

Fixed free if it fails

If a delivered file fails PAC, or a reviewer on your side finds an accessibility error against WCAG 2.1 AA or PDF/UA, it is corrected at no charge within 30 days. That is a promise about the file, and it is the only kind of promise a remediation vendor can honestly make: whether your organisation is compliant is a determination about you, and nobody selling you documents can decide it.

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What people say after working with us.

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Managed the work directly

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Managed the work directly
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Managed the work directly
“Without a doubt, an engineer anyone could fully rely on.”
Engineering Manager at Comma
Worked on the same team
“As committed to the quality of our codebase and infrastructure as any permanent engineer I have worked with.”
Software Engineer at Weavr
Managed the work directly
“Gets things done. I always felt I could rely on him to push forward with a project under his own steam.”
Development Lead at Geo.me Solutions
Worked on the same team

Process

How it works

Attached3 files
annual-report.pdf40 pp
budget-2026.pdf12 pp
forms-pack.pdf9 pp
or paste a Drive, Dropbox or Box link
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Send the files or a link
Email the files, or a share link to a folder on Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive or Box. No account to create and nothing to install. If they are confidential, say so and an NDA goes back the same day.
Your quote1 day
$414
34
standard
6
complex
40
pages
5
day delivery
02
Written quote, next business day
A written quote within one business day: how many pages price as standard, how many as complex, the total, and the delivery date. Not a range, and no call unless you want one.
forms-pack.pdf
Tagged
PAC 0 errors
budget-2026.pdf
Tagged
PAC 0 errors
annual-report.pdf
Tagged
PAC 0 errors
03
Files back in five business days
Remediated in 5 business days for up to 200 pages. Back you get the tagged PDF, a PAC report for each file, and a one-page summary of what was fixed.
30
days
Re-checked
and corrected
04
Fixed free for thirty days
If a delivered file fails PAC, or a reviewer on your side finds an accessibility error against WCAG 2.1 AA or PDF/UA, it is corrected at no charge for 30 days after delivery.

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No card, no account

First 10 pages, free

Send one document. The first 10 pages of it come back remediated, with the PAC report alongside them, so you can judge the work rather than the sales copy.

One per organisation, and it has to be a real document rather than a test page: a brochure that tags cleanly proves nothing about the budget tables you actually need done.

Send 10 free pages

What comes back

10 pages tagged and ordered
PAC 2024 report attached
Read with NVDA by a person
A note on what was fixed

Yours to keep, whatever you decide next.

FAQ

The questions that decide this one

Is this legal advice?

No. Nothing on this page is legal advice, and remediation is not a legal opinion. If you need to know what your organisation is obliged to do and by when, that is a question for your counsel. What is offered here is the document work itself, and a report you can hand to whoever is asking.

Do you guarantee compliance?

No, and be careful with anyone who does. Compliance is decided about an organisation, not about a file, and no vendor can promise it on your behalf. What is guaranteed is narrow and checkable: the delivered file passes PAC 2024, a person has read it with NVDA against WCAG 2.1 AA and PDF/UA, and if it fails either test it is fixed at no charge within 30 days.

What about scanned documents?

Scanned pages are images of text, so they are OCR first and then remediated. Clean scans usually price as standard pages. Poor ones, meaning faint print, skew, handwriting, or a fax of a fax, are quoted separately, because rekeying a page sometimes costs less than correcting the OCR on it.

Do you remediate Word or PowerPoint?

On request, quoted case by case. PDFs are the focus here, and a Word or PowerPoint source is usually better fixed at source and re-exported than remediated after the fact. Send the source file alongside the PDF and I will tell you which of the two is cheaper to fix.

Can you sign an NDA and handle sensitive documents?

Yes to an NDA, signed before anything is sent. Files are handled by one person, kept in private storage, and deleted 30 days after delivery along with anything generated from them. If your retention rules are stricter than that, send them and I will work to yours.

Do you accept purchase orders?

Yes. Invoices are in USD, purchase orders are accepted, and payment is by card or bank transfer. The quote is written so it can be attached to a requisition, with the per-page prices and the page counts itemised. Minimum order is $300.

Are you insured?

Yes: professional indemnity, public liability and cyber insurance. Certificates are available on request.

Where are you based?

Glasgow, in the United Kingdom, working US afternoons. In practice that means files sent during your morning are picked up the same day and a quote is usually waiting when you start the next one.

A written quote by the end of the next business day

$9 a standard page, $18 a complex one, back in 5 business days, and fixed free for 30 days if it fails a check. Tell me what you have and the quote itemises the rest.

A batch is not the only way in. Ask for the 10 free pages first and judge the work before you commit.

PDF remediation quoteReply next business day