What is Section 508?
508 Compliance is shorthand for a law that requires federal government websites to be safe and accessible for people with disabilities. This law covers a range of issues related to assisting people with different kinds of disabilities.
We assist your company with making information accessible. Accessibility makes your company more inclusive as VASTEC helps to remove barriers to access electronic data. Individuals with disabilities are better able to understand and use electronic information with assistive technology devices.
If you’re seeking a Section 508 audit or expert guidance on accessibility compliance, VASTEC is here to help. As a trusted leader in Section 508 compliance, we’re ready to support your accessibility goals.
Empowering Access with VASTEC Accessibility Services
- Website accessibility review
- PDF document and form remediation
- Accessibility training
- Section 508 consulting
- VASTEC verified compliance certifications
Experts in Section 508 Best Practices
At VASTEC, we guide your organization through every step of the Section 508 compliance process, ensuring your digital content meets or exceeds federal accessibility standards. Our industry-leading quality assurance protocols include rigorous testing with assistive technologies and comprehensive reviews to ensure individuals with disabilities can access and use information just as effectively as those without. We don’t just meet the standard — we help you surpass it.
Accessibility That Drives Impact
Accessibility isn’t just a legal requirement — it’s a smart business strategy. By ensuring your digital content and products are inclusive and usable by all, you foster innovation, enhance the user experience, and boost employee engagement. Section 508 compliance helps you reach a broader audience, serve more stakeholders, and accelerate progress toward your organizational goals.
VASTEC Verified: Your Seal of True Accessibility
The VASTEC Verified seal is our assurance that digital content has been fully remediated and certified to meet VASTEC’s rigorous accessibility standards for Section 508 compliance.
A key part of the VASTEC Verified process is quality control testing by visually impaired assistive technology (AT) users. These experts have the final say on whether a document—such as a PDF—meets real-world accessibility requirements. If approved the document is ready to be delivered to the client. In the rare instance where an accessibility issue remains, the AT tester collaborates directly with the project lead to resolve them before final delivery.
Only after this thorough validation can electronic content be certified as VASTEC Verified, ensuring your documents are accessible, inclusive, and fully compliant.
SERVICE Superior Accessibility Service
Why VASTEC is even Better
We are professional liaisons collaborating with agencies within the U.S federal government, private industry, and non-profit disability-focused organizations for determining best shared practices and approaches to meeting accessibility and Section 508 compliance document management needs. Leveraging our extensive experience in providing federal and commercial compliance services, we create unique, effective and accessible solutions to help you meet your accessibility initiatives.
We employ full time compliance testers with visual disabilities who in addition to bringing real-life assistive device competencies, offer tremendous insights into the development of our best practices for the highest level of use, comprehension, and navigation with our accessible formats.
What We Bring
- Unique Combinations of Scalable Human, Semi-Automated and Automated Functions
- PDF Accessibility Experience to Government and Commercial Clients
- In-House Technical and Functional Section 508 and WCAG 2.0 Subject Matter Experts
- E&IT industry Accessibility Best Practices on Document Accessibility
Accessibility for PDF Documents and Forms
VASTEC is one of the largest U.S. based federal government and private industry PDF accessibility providers, processing millions of fully accessible and usable documents annually. We offer a unique and proprietary approach to our document conversion process, based on years of industry experience
VASTEC has a well-understood set of shared Best Practices in remediation that guide our production of PDF documents to meet and exceed Section 508 standards. Our Quality Assurance measures include review of the documents by experienced screen reader users so that individuals with disabilities “have access to and use of information and data that is comparable to that of persons without disabilities.” We have extensive knowledge of and experience with many popular assistive technology applications and devices including speech-to-text, magnifying and screen reading software such as JAWS, Window Eyes, NVDA, ZoomText, MAGic, Dragon Naturallyspeaking, and others.
Quality Assurance for Accessible PDF
All PDFs receive quality accessibility inspection, including visual inspection and Assistive Technology (AT) compliance testing. By employing full-time accessibility compliance testers with visual disabilities who bring real-life assistive device competencies, we gain tremendous insights into the development of our best practices for the highest level of use, comprehension, and navigation with our accessible formats.
CONTACT US today for a free assessment of your PDF accessibility needs, or a representative sample of your PDF document project. We’ll provide you with a copy of our Baseline Accessibility Standards and a complementary document assessment and quote.