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 carries 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 carries both federal enforcement authority and private right of action. Post-April 24, any entity with untagged public PDFs carries 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 carries 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.
A partial view of what the Marchitects audit system identified across California government entities. Every row is a documented compliance gap.
| Entity | Type | Total PDFs | Exposure | Primary Document Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moreno Valley | City | 1,824 | High | 1,742 agenda PDFs back to 2023 |
| Kern County | County | 978 | High | 700 planning + 165 agenda + 113 procurement |
| Los Angeles | City | 666 | High | 532 forms + 124 agenda archive (2014–present) |
| Chula Vista | City | 568 | High | 568 agenda PDFs back to 2006 |
| Riverside County | County | 376 | High | 83 agenda + 58 planning + 48 procurement |
| Kings County | County | 301 | High | 299 agenda PDFs back to 2024 |
| Contra Costa County | County | 113 | High | 51 agenda + 37 planning + 15 procurement |
| Calleguas Water District | Water District | 89 | High | 87 agenda PDFs back to 2024 |
| Monterey County | County | 87 | High | 52 agenda + 11 planning + 13 procurement |
| San Jose | City | 59 | High | 56 agenda PDFs in Legistar archive |
| Marin County | County | 26 | Medium | 24 agenda PDFs back to 2021 |
| Sonoma County | County | 42 | Medium | 14 agenda + 14 planning + 14 procurement |
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.
Schedule 15 MinutesGovernment entities and legal practices only · No obligation