Marchitects audited 50 California government entities and found 6,294 untagged PDF documents across agenda archives, planning departments, and public forms. None remediated. 45 days remain.
The DOJ's April 24, 2026 rule under Title II of the ADA requires state and local government entities to meet WCAG 2.1 Level AA — including every PDF published on a public-facing site. Agenda packets, planning documents, procurement bids, public forms. All of it.
A single agenda archive can hold hundreds of documents. Kern County has 978 PDFs. Moreno Valley: 1,824. Chula Vista: 568 dating back to 2006. Manual remediation at that volume requires months of specialist labor. The deadline does not move.
Title II extends both federal enforcement authority and private right of action. Post-April 24, any entity with untagged public PDFs faces documented exposure. Entities that demonstrate active remediation efforts are in a materially different legal position than those with no record of action.
Marchitects' audit system crawled your agenda archives, planning portals, procurement pages, and public forms. Before your first call, you receive a full exposure report with PDF counts, document types, and example URLs.
Our remediation infrastructure processes legacy PDF archives — applying accessibility tags, heading structure, alt text, reading order, and table markup — at a volume and pace manual workflows cannot match. We operate on your full archive.
Every remediated document includes a compliance record — what was found, what was corrected, when. You receive documentation that demonstrates active remediation effort, which is legally meaningful whether or not full completion precedes April 24.
Marchitects completed a public crawl of 50 California government entities ahead of the April 24 deadline. Every figure below represents documented compliance exposure.
| Finding | Across 50 Entities |
|---|---|
| Total untagged PDF documents found | 6,294 |
| Entities rated High exposure | 27 of 50 |
| Active vendor contracts that excluded PDF remediation | 8 of 11 |
| Entities with WCAG 2.1 AA in their accessibility statement | 0 of 50 |
| Documented WCAG remediation spend across all entities | $0 |
| Average agenda archive depth | 4.2 years |
| Entity types covered | Cities, Counties, Transit, Water Districts |
We already audited your site. In 15 minutes we walk you through what we found, what remediation looks like at your document volume, and what a defensible compliance record requires before April 24.
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