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Pier 21 Uses Equidox to Meet Accessibility Act Requirements

| Tammy Albee

Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 - they use Equidox to remediate their PDFs

Equidox – the easiest option In an effort to meet the Accessible Canada Act (ACA) and the Accessibility Act requirements for Nova Scotia, the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 chose Equidox PDF remediation software to help make their PDF documents accessible for people with disabilities.  Colin Timm is a graphic designer and photographer for the museum. He produces advertising and large format files for the website development team.  Timm says, “Equidox is the easiest piece of software I’ve worked with.”… Continue Reading Pier 21 Uses Equidox to Meet Accessibility Act Requirements

Whitlock on Equidox: “Solid Customer Service from Start to Finish”

| Nina Overdorff

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Whitlock Business Systems is a large business solutions company that offers full-service printing, graphic design, variable data printing (VDP), publishing, promotional, and other imaging and data capture services. They’re one of the largest in the midwest. In addition to physical documents, they also offer digital services, including converting inaccessible PDFs to accessible formats.  Complex documents required an easy solution One of their clients, a Michigan healthcare provider, had two long and complex documents which they needed Whitlock to make accessible… Continue Reading Whitlock on Equidox: “Solid Customer Service from Start to Finish”

Case Study: Hill College 508 Compliance

| Nina Overdorff

Logo for Hill College Texas. College 508 Compliance

All Colleges Must Meet Section 508 Standards Like nearly all colleges and universities, Hill College receives federal funding and is subject to Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act. Section 508 regulations stipulate that all federal government programs, or programs that receive money from the federal government, must make their electronic and information technology (EIT) accessible to people with disabilities. EIT includes websites and documents stored on it and must be accessible to everyone, including people who use assistive technology.   Hill… Continue Reading Case Study: Hill College 508 Compliance

Case Study: California Community College (CCC) uses Equidox

| Tammy Albee

The California Community College (CCC) system is the largest community college system in the world. With 115 campuses statewide and nearly 2.5 million students, ensuring Section 508 compliance with digital accessibility guidelines for all websites and documents can be a challenging job. CCC uses Equidox to do this work.  CCC required accessible PDFs for faculty and students Due to the number of disabled students and online documents, the colleges needed to have documents made accessible quickly and efficiently. CCC investigated… Continue Reading Case Study: California Community College (CCC) uses Equidox

Case Study: CA Dept of Health Services (DHCS) chose Equidox

| Tammy Albee

The California Department of Health Care System (DHCS) provides multiple services for over 13 million low-income California residents, over one-third of the state’s population.  DHCS chose Equidox PDF remediation software to ensure their healthcare information would reach everyone they serve.  DHCS needed their PDFs to be accessible The CA Department of Healthcare System (DHCS) has hundreds of thousands of legacy PDF documents on their websites and is constantly creating new documents.  They recognized the need for their website and the… Continue Reading Case Study: CA Dept of Health Services (DHCS) chose Equidox

Case Study- Oakland Park Florida

| Tammy Albee

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Equidox PDF Remediation Software Resolves Document Accessibility for Clerk’s Office When Renee Shrout, City Clerk for the City of Oakland Park, Florida, received a complaint that their online documents were inaccessible she immediately began working with her staff to research ways to make their documents accessible to everyone.  Meanwhile, all PDF documents had to be temporarily removed from their website until they could be remediated for use with assistive technology. The remediation tool they needed was Equidox software. The City… Continue Reading Case Study- Oakland Park Florida

Case Study: Rick Hansen Foundation

| Tammy Albee

The Rick Hansen Foundation (RHF) was established in 1988, following the completion of Rick Hansen’s Man In Motion World Tour. For over 30 years, RHF has worked to raise awareness, change attitudes, and remove barriers for people with disabilities.  They are committed to helping remove barriers in both physical and digital spaces.  To that end, they use Equidox by Onix’s PDF Remediation software in order to facilitate making their PDFs accessible to users of assistive technology.  RHF strives to build… Continue Reading Case Study: Rick Hansen Foundation

Case Study – PDF remediation Sidewalk Labs’s Toronto Smart City Project

| Tammy Albee

Equidox recently completed document remediation for a planning document for Sidewalk Labs’ project in Toronto, Ontario. Sidewalk Labs Toronto Project Sidewalk Labs, an Alphabet company, was founded in 2015 for the very purpose of delivering dramatic improvements in urban life — on the belief that tackling these challenges is possible with careful integration of emerging innovations and people-first urban design. Sidewalk Labs is a sister company of Alphabet, Inc., which also owns Google, who recently named Equidox’s parent company, Onix,… Continue Reading Case Study – PDF remediation Sidewalk Labs’s Toronto Smart City Project

Case Study: NOVA

| Tammy Albee

Background: College Websites Must Meet Accessibility Guidelines Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) is one of many community colleges nationwide that provide sound foundations for transitions to careers and Bachelors, Masters, and Doctorate-level studies for students of all ages. As such, they often include significant numbers of nontraditional, multicultural, and disabled students, and more learning styles and abilities must be accommodated.  In an effort to accommodate such a range of abilities, administrators from Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) created an initiative… Continue Reading Case Study: NOVA

NOVA Making Community College Web Accessibility a Reality

| Tammy Albee

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Background: Community College Web Accessibility is a Challenge Achieving web accessibility across higher education campuses has not been easy. Aside from the changing ADA legislation and the pending Section 508 refresh, there is the unfortunate fact that some universities are being sued over inaccessible content and equal accommodation issues. The Department of Justice and The National Federation of the Blind want universities to take a proactive approach to accessibility. Community college web accessibility coordinators are facing a growing backlog of… Continue Reading NOVA Making Community College Web Accessibility a Reality