PDF accessibility
Make Your PDFs EAA Compliant
The European Accessibility Act has applied since June 2025 — and the documents your business publishes are part of it. Fix them in minutes, not per-page invoices.
The EAA obliges businesses selling into the EU — e-commerce, banking, transport, telecoms and more — to make their services accessible, with EN 301 549 as the technical standard. That includes the documents customers must read: invoices, statements, contracts, product manuals, terms. National enforcement started arriving in 2025–2026 (France's first cases named major retailers), and the document long tail is exactly what businesses forget. Ceereo audits your PDFs against the machine-checkable layer (EN 301 549 §10 maps to WCAG for documents) and produces tagged, verified versions — visually unchanged, ready to publish.
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Last updated: August 6, 2026 · Reviewed by the Ceereo team
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How it works
From upload to accessible PDF in four steps
The fastest way from an inaccessible PDF to a tagged, verified one — no tag panel, no service queue, no visual changes.
- Step 1
Upload your PDF
Drop in the PDF you need to make accessible. Your file is processed only to audit and remediate it, and is never used to train models.
- Step 2
The document is audited
Every PDF/UA and WCAG machine check runs: tags, reading order, language, title, alt text, font embedding and text integrity.
- Step 3
The structure is written in
Headings, paragraphs, lists, tables and figures are tagged in reading order, with headers and footers marked as artifacts to be skipped.
- Step 4
Download the accessible PDF
Get your own file back with a full tag structure, re-audited and pixel-compared so you can prove nothing visible changed.
In short
The EAA (in force June 2025) requires EU-facing businesses to make service documents accessible under EN 301 549 — invoices, statements, manuals, contracts included. Ceereo audits PDFs against the machine-checkable layer free and produces tagged, verified, pixel-identical fixes per document.
Does the EAA apply to PDF documents?
Yes — where documents are part of an in-scope service (e-commerce order confirmations, bank statements, transport tickets, product support manuals), they fall under EN 301 549's document requirements, which apply WCAG criteria to PDFs: tags, reading order, language, alt text, titles. Machine checks verify that layer; Ceereo audits it free and fixes it per document.
The forgotten long tail
Websites got fixed; the PDFs didn't
EAA programs budget for the website and the app — then a screen-reader user opens the invoice. Document accessibility is the audit finding nobody owns, and per-page agency rates make fixing hundreds of routine PDFs absurd. Flat per-document automation is the sane answer for exactly this tail.
Features
Why teams choose Ceereo
EN 301 549-mapped checks
Document criteria audited and named in the report EU reviewers recognize.
Per-document economics
Priced for long tails: statements, invoices, manuals by the dozen.
Verified + identical
Machine re-check plus pixel-diff on every remediated file.
Use cases
Where Ceereo works best
E-commerce sellers
Order documents and returns policies for EU customers.
SaaS & telecom
Contracts, invoices, and help PDFs inside in-scope services.
Manufacturers
Product manuals and safety sheets shipped into the EU.
Why not do it by hand?
Ceereo vs. doing it manually
Remediating a PDF by hand in Acrobat's tag panel takes days and rarely verifies clean the first time. Here's the difference.
Output quality
What the remediated PDF looks like
Every run produces a tagged, machine-verified PDF that is pixel-identical to your original. Here's what you get.
- Tagged structure + language + title per EN 301 549 document criteria
- Alt text on meaningful figures
- Artifacts (headers/footers) excluded from reading
- Before/after evidence for your accessibility statement
Topic cluster
Related PDF accessibility tools
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Frequently asked questions
Which businesses does the EAA cover?+
Consumer-facing services in scope include e-commerce, banking, transport, telecoms, e-books and more, selling into any EU member state — including non-EU companies serving EU customers. Microenterprises (under 10 staff and €2M) have a service exemption; check your national transposition.
Is EN 301 549 different from WCAG?+
For documents, EN 301 549 chapter 10 applies WCAG success criteria to non-web documents — so the practical checks are the same family: tags, language, alt text, structure, contrast.
Can you do our whole document backlog?+
That's what per-document packs are for — audit everything free, fix the failures in bulk.
Fix your EU document tail
Free audit against EN 301 549 document checks; fixed files in minutes.