Digital Accessibility Compliance for Higher Ed Realities

Higher ed buyers don’t just need to “be accessible,” they need to prove it in ways leadership, auditors, and procurement stakeholders can understand. We help accessibility offices generate transparent and defensible compliance reporting aligned to standards such as WCAG and Section 508, and we support the documentation and communication that universities often need when evaluating platforms and vendors. We also help translate standards language into implementable guidance, so requirements don’t stay trapped in legal or technical jargon and instead become clear actions that teams can execute and leadership can track.

Identifying issues is only useful if you can close them. We support institutions in translating audit findings into practical remediation actions. Typically, this scope includes higher ed website experiences, LMS templates, and course structures, and high‑volume document remediation workflows. Just as importantly, we help institutions build repeatable verification and regression cycles. The focus is operational: clear ownership, repeatable checks, and a maintainable path to sustained compliance rather than one‑time cleanup.

When content volume is high, institutions need speed, but they also need outcomes they can stand behind. MagicA11y, our AI-assisted tool for accessibility remediation, supports faster validation across common higher ed formats. It supports ePub, HTML, PPTs, PDFs, and Word documents, including alt-text workflows for mathematical content. MagicA11y can be used to accelerate repeatable checks and reduce regression effort over time. Critically, the workflow doesn’t stop at automation: results are verified by CPACC-certified professionals and informed by assistive-technology testing (including screen readers) to ensure findings reflect real barriers, not just tool output.

For public colleges and universities, the DOJ’s ADA Title II web and mobile app accessibility rule moves digital accessibility from “best practice” to an enforceable requirement tied to WCAG 2.1 Level AA.

The key operational reality for campus leaders is that the deadline isn’t based on student headcount, and the obligation includes content and apps you provide directly or through vendors. Through our accessibility services for universities, you get ahead of this with a structured readiness approach: inventory and prioritize what matters most, assess the highest-risk journeys across web/LMS/mobile touchpoints, and produce defensible documentation (baseline status + evidence). These are put in place with re-testing cycles, so progress doesn’t regress with every release or semester refresh.

Achieving digital accessibility compliance for higher ed isn’t only about what you build, it includes what you buy. We support procurement and platforms in higher ed by reviewing vendor accessibility documentation. This includes VPAT/ACR materials where applicable, pressure-testing claims against real use cases, and helping teams define accessibility requirements and acceptance criteria that can be carried into RFPs. This helps institutions avoid the common pattern of discovering accessibility barriers only after rollout, when remediation is expensive. It also gives leadership a more defensible posture when accessibility questions arise.