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About Includoc

Includoc helps public agencies, colleges and consultants check, fix and prove document accessibility, with honest AI and human review. Not an overlay.

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Includoc checks, fixes and proves the accessibility of PDFs and Office documents. We built it for the people who keep public information flowing: communications staff, ADA coordinators, clerks, accessibility offices, instructional designers, and the consultants who help them.

Why we built it

Public agencies and colleges run on documents. Agendas and minutes, permit applications, budgets, notices, course syllabi and slides are how people find out what's happening and get the services they need. Many of these files were never made accessible. Someone using a screen reader may hear a jumble of text with no headings, or nothing at all from a scanned page. Someone who can't use a mouse may not be able to fill in a form.

The ADA Title II rule now sets a clear standard. State and local governments, including public schools and colleges, must make their web content, documents included, meet WCAG 2.1 Level AA by April 26, 2027 or April 26, 2028, depending on their size. A parallel rule covers healthcare providers funded by the Department of Health and Human Services.

The tools most teams have weren't built for that scale. Desktop checkers can tell you what's wrong with one file, but they don't fix it. Remediation vendors do excellent work, typically at $5 to $8 a page for standard pages, which adds up quickly across thousands of documents. We think there's room for something in between.

How Includoc works

  1. Check. Upload a document and get results in plain English, mapped to WCAG 2.1 AA and PDF/UA, with the same messages you'd see in PAC or Acrobat.
  2. Fix. AI rebuilds the document's structure, reading order, headings, tables and alt text. You review anything that needs a person's judgment.
  3. Prove. Download a conformance report that shows what passed machine checks, what a person reviewed and what still needs review.

For organizations, Includoc also finds every document on your website, tracks its status, records exceptions with a justification, and checks new uploads as they appear.

Includoc is in beta. Checking documents is free and available now. Fixing, human verification and organization plans open in early 2027.

AI and people, each doing what they do best

AI is good at repetitive work: tagging thousands of headings, putting text in reading order, drafting alt text. It isn't good at every judgment. It can't always tell whether alt text captures what matters in a chart, or whether color carries meaning on a page.

So we automate what can be automated, flag what needs judgment, and put a person in charge of the decisions that matter. That person is you, on our review screen. When you order human verification, it's also a certified accessibility specialist (CPACC/IAAP or equivalent experience), who reviews your document against WCAG 2.1 AA and PDF/UA and tests it with a screen reader.

What we believe

  • Honest results. Every report separates "Passed (machine-checked)," "Needs your review" and "Failed." We don't claim more than the checks show.
  • People first. Accessibility is about people who use screen readers, magnifiers, keyboards, voice control and other tools, not about passing a test.
  • Plain language. We explain standards in everyday words and save the jargon for the details.
  • Accessible by construction. We hold our own product to WCAG 2.2 AA. Our accessibility statement explains how we test it.
  • Privacy by default. Short retention, isolated processing and no AI training on your files. Our trust page has the details.

What we're not

  • Not an overlay. We don't add a widget to your website. Overlays change how a web page displays in the browser. They don't fix the documents you publish.
  • Not a law firm. We don't give legal advice or certify legal compliance. We provide evidence of WCAG 2.1 AA conformance checks, and your counsel decides legal compliance.
  • Not a black box. Our reports name the standards we tested against, the tool versions we used and the items a person checked.

Our content

Our guides cite primary sources, such as the rule text and the W3C standards. Every page shows when it was last updated. When a credentialed accessibility specialist has reviewed a page, their name and credential appear on it.

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