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At it’s core, 508 compliance promotes accessibility and inclusivity, ensuring individuals with disabilities can fully participate in conferences and meetings.
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Compliant materials offer better interaction by empowering all attendees to engage and contribute to discussions, regardless of their abilities.
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It’s the law. All government agencies are required to adhere to 508 Compliance Standards, including their contractors, suppliers and vendors.
Government Agencies Require
508 compliance
for presentations and materials
Why 508 Compliance is Essential for Your Next Government Meeting
How to Meet 508 Compliance
Characteristics of 508 Compliant Materials
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Compatibility with Assistive Technologies: Properly structured documents work well with assistive technologies like screen readers, braille displays, and speech recognition software.
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Alternative Text for Images: Images must have descriptive alternative text (alt text) that conveys the meaning and purpose of the visual content.
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Clear and Consistent Heading Structure: Utilize appropriate heading tags (e.g., H1, H2, H3) to establish a clear and consistent hierarchy of headings for improved navigation and readability.
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Color Contrast and Visual Design: Sufficient color contrast between text and background is required.
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Accessible Tables and Data: Tables need to be properly structured with headers, row and column labels, and summary descriptions to ensure accessibility.
Why Work with Digital Echo
Cost Effective
Outsourcing to Digital Echo saves organizations time and money by enabling the proper allocation of resources and avoiding the costs associated with training and hiring more staff.
Assured Compliance
Digital Echo’s team follows strict remediation guidelines and quality assurance procedures like WCAG and PDF/UA to ensure that all documents are compliant with Section 508, HHS, AB 434 and the ADA.
Fast Delivery
Digital Echo operates with speed and agility, ensuring the timely delivery of documents. This enables organizations to meet project deadlines while ensuring full compliance with conformance standards.
All Formats
Digital Echo works with a variety of file types such as PDFs, Word and PPT, and InDesign files to name a few. We can even create source files that generate compliant PDFs without the need for remediation.
Scalability
Digital Echo can easily scale its services to meet the demands of any organization, whether you have a small one off project or a large library of documents and forms that need to be made accessible and compliant.
Sanity
Unless you are remediating documents daily, it becomes challenging and frustrating to acquire the expertise and efficiency required to make the process faster and more cost-effective than outsourcing.
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I’ve been using Digital Echo for 5 years and I’m always happy with the completed work. They are very knowledgeable with 508 compliance, ensuring all documents, websites and PowerPoint slides are compliant. They are professional, personable and consistently complete projects on time or before the due date. I will continue to use Digital Echo!
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Reviews From Our Amazing Clients
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Charleston SC
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The project I work on has used Digital Echo frequently over the past year to make our PDFs accessible. They do a great job for a very fair price and have a quick turnaround time. What I like most about them, though, is their excellent communication. They always get back to me quickly, keep me apprised of their schedule for current jobs, and explain things clearly. I feel very lucky to have found this company. They've made it so easy for us to make our documents accessible.
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I've worked with Digital Echo on 508 compliance for large environmental compliance documents a few times and will continue to use them in the future. They've consistently met tight turnaround times, been incredibly responsive, and their costs are very reasonable. We've tried to do this work in-house before but Digital Echo is so quick and cost effective that I don't think we'll ever go back.
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I've been using Digital Echo for 5 years and I'm always happy with the completed work. They are very knowledgeable with 508 compliance, ensuring all documents, websites and powerpoint slides are compliant. They are professional, personable and consistently complete projects on time or before the due date. I will continue to use Digital Echo!
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Digital Echo has been a great partner for ensuring 508 Compliant documents. They always turn the documents around quickly and at a fair price. Highly recommend using them for your 508 Compliance needs.
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So happy to have found Digital Echo for their expertise in ensuring my client's pdf files are accessible under both WCAG and PDF/UA standards. John Mulvey is a valuable partner who always responds quickly and provides clear timelines and updates on my projects. The services they provide are reliably professional, timely and affordable. It's like adding an experienced accessibility expert to your team.
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John Mulvey and Digital Echo are exceptional business partners. The team is extremely knowledgeable, responsive and highly reliable. Their honest delivery time and cost of services estimates made working with them very pleasurable. We look forward to a long relationship with Digital Echo and I highly recommend them. Lynwood Wade - VP IT -
Digital Echo is a great company to work with! Any time I turn to Digital Echo for PDF remediation the documents are returned quickly and the work has been done well.
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Great company to work with! They are organized, respond quickly and produce perfectly accessible documents that comply with all regulations.
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Excellent and efficient PDF remediation services to make documents (even those with complex designs) accessible to all users. Highly recommended!
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Digital Echo has been a great partner in helping us to ensure ADA compliance for our online digital viewbook. The price was very reasonable, the work was done well, and the responsiveness to our requests was immediate. I would highly recommend them to my colleagues. You will not be disappointed.
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John Mulvey and his team are great to work with at Digital Echo. They have completed ADA compliance review checks on multiple, complex files for our clients. We are always impressed with their quality of work and turnaround time. We plan to continue to work with them in the future.
Document Compliance and Accessibility Solutions
Digital Echo works with forward thinking organizations on inclusion and accessibility for those with disabilities. An organization can not be truly inclusive without being accessible to all. Our PDF Accessibility Services help ensure 508 compliance for presentations and associated materials and are part of our larger offering of document remediation and compliance. We look to maintain long lasting relationships and secure these through personalized, value-driven services. Our clients look for our expert analysis and remediation services to ensure their compliance with 508, WCAG and PDF/UA standards.
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