US counties must make their PDFs accessible by 26 April 2027. We drew a random sample of 100 US counties, harvested 941 documents from their public portals, and found 58.1% have no tag tree at all - meaning a screen reader gets no headings, no reading order, and no table structure.
The State of US County PDF Accessibility 2026 - AccessLumens AccessLumens Research · 2 September 2026 The State of US County PDF Accessibility 2026 58.1 % of the county PDFs we scanned have no tag tree at all. A PDF without a tag tree is not a document to a screen reader. It has no headings to navigate by, no reading order, no table structure, and no way to tell a caption from a paragraph. Under the Department of Justice’s ADA Title II rule, PDFs are explicitly “conventional electronic documents” and therefore regulated web content. We drew a random sample of 100 US counties, harvested up to 2
US counties must make their PDFs accessible by 26 April 2027. We drew a random sample of 100 US counties, harvested 941 documents from their public portals, and found 58.1% have no tag tree at all - meaning a screen reader gets no headings, no reading order, and no table structure.
The State of US County PDF Accessibility 2026 - AccessLumens AccessLumens Research · 2 September 2026 The State of US County PDF Accessibility 2026 58.1 % of the county PDFs we scanned have no tag tree at all. A PDF without a tag tree is not a document to a screen reader. It has no headings to navigate by, no reading order, no table structure, and no way to tell a caption from a paragraph. Under the Department of Justice’s ADA Title II rule, PDFs are explicitly “conventional electronic documents” and therefore regulated web content. We drew a random sample of 100 US counties, harvested up to 2
