For university accessibility offices
Course documents and slide decks are a common place for accessibility issues. Accessmith puts a checker and one-click fixes where faculty already work.
Public colleges and universities are part of state or local government and are covered by ADA Title II; DOJ's guidance gives online class registration at a community college as an example. See the Title II deadlines. Institutions receiving HHS funding should also read the Section 504 HHS rule.
Sources (checked 25 October 2026): 28 CFR 35.200 (eCFR); DOJ, Guidance on Web Accessibility and the ADA (Mar. 18, 2022).
What Accessmith does
- Pictures and objects without alt text, or alt text that is just a file name
- Skipped heading levels and empty headings in Word
- Tables without a header row
- Missing or duplicate slide titles in PowerPoint
- Document title not set
- Text colour contrast below the WCAG 2.1 AA ratio
- Vague link text such as "click here", and bare web addresses
- Empty paragraphs used for spacing, and lists typed with "-" or "•"
A person still has to check what no automatic tool can judge: whether alt text is accurate and useful, reading order on complex slides, meaning carried by colour alone, captions for media, plain language, and anything Accessmith flags as "check by hand".