PDF Census finds every PDF on your public website, checks each one, and sorts them into fix first, review with counsel, and archive candidates, with a page count and a remediation cost estimate. Fixed price. Delivered in 3 business days.
about six months until April 26, 2027, the DOJ's Title II web accessibility compliance date for state and local governments serving 50,000 people or more. Smaller cities, counties and special districts: April 26, 2028.
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Automated checks cannot confirm WCAG conformance. Exception flags are for your counsel to decide; this is not legal advice.
A real Arizona city, scanned
1,992 of 12,915 pages
needed fixing first. That's about 15% of the PDF pages we found on the site.
Estimated cost to fix first: $10.5k–$16.8k, versus $67.4k–$108k to fix everything.
Sample scan of the first 500 web pages (437 PDFs); a paid report covers up to 5,000 web pages and 10,000 PDFs. City name removed. Open the sample report
We only read what any resident can already see on your public website. You don't need to give us a login or change anything.
Send us your website address. Within 2 business days you get the headline numbers: how many PDFs and pages you have, and roughly how many need attention.
If you want the details, we list every PDF, check each one, and sort them into four plain lists with a cost estimate. Delivered in 3 business days.
Hand the Fix First list to your vendor to quote, and the counsel list to your attorney. You stay in control of every decision.
Most offices can't say how many PDFs they have posted, let alone how many pages. We crawl your public site the way a resident would, list every PDF, and count the pages. You get a real number to take to your manager, your council or your remediation vendor.
Applications, permits, forms, fee schedules and anything posted in the last year are what residents use to get services. Unless a file already passes our automated checks, we put those at the top of your list. Older documents that may fall under the rule's archived-content or preexisting-document exceptions go on a separate list for your city attorney to review, not to us to decide.
Remediation is commonly quoted at $5 to $8 a page, and often more. Our report estimates the cost of your fix-first list next to the cost of fixing everything, so you can see what archiving, removing or replacing old files could save before anyone signs a per-page contract.
A spreadsheet (Excel) and a printable web report with:
What we don't do: we don't fix the PDFs, we don't install anything on your site, and we don't need a login. We read only what any resident can already see.
We ran PDF Census on the public website of a city of 50,000 to 100,000 people in Arizona. Names, web addresses, file names and link text are replaced with neutral labels so neither the city nor any person can be identified. The counts, page totals, dates, flags and estimates are unchanged. This sample covers the first 500 pages of the site.
Give us your website address. We'll scan your public PDFs and email you the headline numbers: how many PDFs and pages, how many look like fix-first, counsel-review or archive candidates, how many are scanned images with no text, and a rough cost range. Usually within 2 business days. No charge and no obligation. The numbers are yours either way.
We use your email only to send your summary and answer your questions. We crawl politely, obey your robots.txt, and you can read how our crawler works.
Priced to fit within the small-purchase limits many local governments use. Not sure which size you need? The free count tells you.
$490
For sites with up to 2,000 PDFs. One-time. Delivered within 3 business days of your order.
$990
Everything in the Triage Report, for sites with 2,001 to 10,000 PDFs. One-time. Delivered within 3 business days of your order. Larger sites: ask for a quote. We check your site size before we start; if it is over 10,000 PDFs, we quote first or refund you in full.
$150 a quarter
After your first report, we re-scan every quarter and flag new and changed PDFs, so new uploads don't undo your progress. Cancel any time.
The report pays for itself, or it's free. If your Triage Report doesn't show at least $490 of remediation you could avoid by fixing your Fix First list instead of everything (using the report's own low estimates), tell us within 30 days and we refund you in full. If we can't scan your site, you pay nothing.
Not sure which size? Ask for the free count first. It tells you.
Tell us your website and we'll reply within one business day with your free PDF count and a written quote. Nothing is charged until you approve the quote. Governments can pay by purchase order.
Automated checks cannot confirm WCAG conformance. Exception flags are for your counsel to decide; this is not legal advice.
No. We are not lawyers and this is not legal advice. The report flags documents that may fall under the rule's exceptions, for example older documents that don't appear to be used to apply for or access a service. Your city attorney or counsel decides. We give them a sorted list instead of a pile.
No. Automated checks can tell you a file is untagged, scanned, or missing a title or language. They cannot confirm that reading order, alt text, tables or color contrast are right. A file in "Passes Automated Checks" still needs a human review. We say so in every report.
We're vendor-neutral and we don't sell remediation, so we have nothing to upsell. The report works with whoever you use: hand the Fix First list to your vendor and ask them to quote that, not everything. We don't touch your website or CMS.
It might. The April 26, 2027 date is the current rule. Either way, an inventory is the first step every guide recommends, and knowing your fix-first page count is useful for budgeting whatever the date ends up being. It costs less than fixing about 100 pages.
Our prices are set to fit under the small-purchase and P-card limits many local governments use, but your purchasing policy decides. We can provide a written quote, a W-9 and an invoice, and we accept POs.
No. It requests at most 2 pages or files per second, obeys your robots.txt, identifies itself as PDFCensusBot, and only reads public pages. It doesn't fill in forms or log in. Read how our crawler works.
Only you. We never publish a customer's report or name. Our public sample is anonymized. We keep your scan data only as long as needed to deliver your report and any re-scans you order (see our privacy policy).
If we can't scan your site (for example, it blocks crawlers or the PDFs are behind a login), we tell you before delivery and refund you in full. If you think something in the report is wrong, tell us within 30 days and we'll re-check it at no charge. See our refund policy.
The report pays for itself, or it's free. If your Triage Report doesn't show at least $490 of remediation you could avoid by fixing your Fix First list instead of everything (using the report's own low estimates), tell us within 30 days and we refund you in full. We'd rather refund you than sell you a report that didn't help.
Automated checks cannot confirm WCAG conformance. Exception flags are for your counsel to decide; this is not legal advice.
Start with the free count. It takes you two minutes and costs nothing, and you'll know the size of the job before anyone asks.
PDF Census is an automated inventory and a rules-based sort. Automated checks cannot confirm WCAG conformance. Exception flags are for your counsel to decide; this is not legal advice. We do not remediate documents and we do not certify accessibility.