Toptal PDF Remediation Tool

The Toptal Accessibility Portal is an automated platform designed to process and remediate PDF documents to help meet accessibility standards. 

What Toptal will do: 

• OCR (optical character recognition) on images of text from scanned documents using Adobe Acrobat APIs.
• Auto-tags a PDF using Adobe Acrobat APIs.
• Uses AI to add or replace existing alternative text on images (toggle option to turn on/off depending on whether or not your document already has alt-text).
• Provides a compliance report and progress analytics for each remediated file.  

What Toptal will NOT do:

• Check/remediate color contrast.
• Remediate reading order.
• Does not add form fields to PDF forms.

Setting Expectations:

• Toptal PDF Remediation tool will do better on some documents than others.
• Color contrast and reading order require manual checks.
• Results may vary depending in part on the quality of the PDF, particularly for scanned documents.
• Remediated documents should always be reviewed.
• Further remediations may be necessary to make the document accessible.

CSU Toptal Instructions

Click on the sections below to learn how to prepare documents for Toptal, work with Toptal platform, and what to do with the document after downloading from Toptal to further check and remediate accessibility issues.  

Login to Toptal using your CSU credentials

1. What to Do Before Uploading a PDF to Toptal (Word document)
2. Sign-in and working with Toptal Platform (Word document)
3. Using Adobe Acrobat to Check the Document After Toptal Remediates and fix remaining issues (Word document)