The challenge
A US public university system had 800 modules — PDFs, decks, videos and interactives — failing WCAG/508 against a legal deadline, with no room to disrupt live courses.
Our approach
Severity-and-traffic triage, then remediation of structure, alt-text, captions and keyboard-accessible interactives — verified by automated plus real screen-reader testing on parallel copies deployed in low-traffic windows.
- Triaged all 800 modules by severity and traffic so the highest-risk, highest-use content was fixed first.
- Remediated document structure, alt-text, captions and keyboard-accessible interactives across PDFs, decks, videos and interactives.
- Verified with both automated tooling and real screen-reader testing.
- Worked on parallel copies deployed in low-traffic windows so live courses were never interrupted.
Results & impact
All 800 modules reached WCAG 2.2 AA three weeks ahead of the legal deadline, with no downtime for enrolled students.
