Accessibility isn’t just compliance. It’s about people. Legacy documents can exclude blind, deaf, neurodivergent, elderly, and ESL users. Here’s how remediation makes them inclusive.

Accessibility is about people, not just policies

When organisations think about accessibility, it’s often framed as a compliance requirement. WCAG 2.2 and other standards matter, but the real question is: who gets left out when documents aren’t accessible?

Who might be excluded by your old PDFs and reports?

• Blind or low vision users who rely on screen readers to interpret text and structure. Without proper tagging, your documents become walls of unreadable code.

• Neurodivergent learners who need clearly structured headings, lists, and logical navigation to stay focused and engaged.

• Deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences who benefit from transcripts and captions in training videos.

• Elderly users who often need larger text, better colour contrast, and simpler navigation.

• ESL readers who rely on the clarity of both text and layout to understand complex documents.

Old documents may feel forgotten, but they can still sit on your website for years. For users encountering them today, barriers feel the same whether the file was created last week or a decade ago. An inaccessible PDF is more than a compliance risk, it’s a denial of access to someone who deserves equal opportunity.

Remediating for inclusion

Through accessible document remediation, organisations can transform legacy files into usable resources for a wide range of audiences. It isn’t about redesigning everything from scratch, but about applying accessibility best practices. This means ensuring documents have correct tagging and structure, providing alt text for images and charts, setting a logical reading order that is easy to follow, and formatting content so it meets WCAG standards.

Meet Aandi’s role in inclusion

Our Legacy Package was designed with this audience in mind. It helps organisations steadily clear their backlogs of inaccessible documents and videos, making them usable for everyone. Because accessibility isn’t just about ticking a box, it’s about ensuring no one is excluded.

Every inaccessible document represents someone locked out of your content. Let’s change that together.

Find out more about the Legacy Package →