Access Strategy Group and Foxit Partner to Give Millions of Americans with Disabilities Documents They Can Actually Read

Partnership makes inaccessible PDFs usable for people with disabilities, from lab results to benefit notices

FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nearly 50 million U.S. adults report at least some trouble seeing, per the most recent National Health Interview Survey. For each of them, an unreadable document is a service they cannot reach and a decision made without them.

Access Strategy Group (ASG), a digital accessibility consultancy, and Foxit, a global PDF and document software company, today announced a partnership to close that gap. Access Pro is an integrated document remediation solution for Foxit PDF Editor and PDF Editor+ that enhances Foxit’s industry-leading PDF editing capabilities by enabling accessibility specialists to edit PDFs, audit accessibility, remediate issues, validate compliance and certify inaccessible documents within a single workflow.

What The Partnership Delivers

A single health system or university can hold hundreds of thousands of PDFs. Fixing them requires software that produces accessible files from the start and trained specialists to remediate those already published. Most organizations have neither, and the backlog grows every week.

The partnership pairs ASG's remediation expertise with Foxit's document platform, and organizations can put it to work today. Foxit PDF Editor ships with built-in accessibility features now, and Access Pro extends them into full remediation, validation and certification as an organization’s accessibility program matures. Rather than relying on multiple software tools and vendors, teams manage the entire document accessibility workflow, from editing through certification, within the Foxit platform.

Foxit PDF Editor + ASG Access Pro improves outcomes with common document accessibility issues and helps patients reading lab results, students reading the terms of their aid, families reading what a benefits notice decided, and customers reading disclosures before they sign.

ASG’s team remediated document archives for 10 of the largest healthcare providers, 50 of the top universities and three of the largest U.S. financial institutions.

Deadlines Are Set, and Exposure Is Climbing

Under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), state and local governments serving 50,000 or more people must bring their digital content into compliance with the WCAG 2.1 Level AA standard by April 26, 2027. Smaller governments, school districts and other special districts have until April 26, 2028. Organizations receiving federal health funding face a May 11, 2027, deadline. The obligation has not changed, and organizations face legal exposure over documents that people cannot read.

Seyfarth Shaw, the accepted benchmark for ADA litigation, recorded a 27% year-on-year increase in accessibility lawsuits filed in federal court in 2025, more than three times the 2013 baseline. Courts treat an inaccessible PDF as a violation for a business open to the public. With recent web accessibility settlements topping $5 million, every document an enterprise publishes carries real legal exposure. That liability scales with the archive. A single consent decree can require remediation of an entire document library at a steep additional cost.

Megan Carey, CRO of Access Strategy Group, said: “The organizations we serve in healthcare, higher education and financial services hold document archives measured in the hundreds of thousands, and every inaccessible file is both a person shut out and a liability on the books. We've fixed this one archive at a time for years. Building Access Pro on Foxit's platform lets our specialists audit, remediate and certify in one place, at the scale of the problem.”

Andrew Travis, CRO of Foxit, said: "Foxit's PDF solutions support all types of businesses, knowledge workers and end-users. We believe everyone who receives a document should be able to read it. Our commitment to accessibility extends beyond feature sets like tagging and structure. The same qualities that make a document accessible make it intelligent, findable and ready for the systems enterprises run on. ASG has made this real inside hospitals, universities and financial institutions for years. This partnership brings Access Pro together with our platform at enterprise scale."

About Access Strategy Group

Access Strategy Group (ASG) is a consulting and solutions organization dedicated to advancing accessibility across digital documents and workflows. ASG provides expert guidance, remediation services and strategic support to help clients achieve compliance with accessibility standards and deliver inclusive user experiences. The company partners with organizations of all sizes to operationalize accessibility, improve document usability and ensure readiness for evolving regulatory requirements. More information is available at www.asgdocs.com.

About Foxit

Foxit is a software leader delivering a fast, secure, AI-powered document suite that brings greater control, speed, and value to the way people work with documents. Built on the belief that documents should accelerate work, not slow it down, Foxit empowers users with intelligent tools that help them do more with documents. Its unified platform enables teams to create, edit, sign, store, and manage documents free from legacy complexity. By combining intelligent workflows with enterprise-grade security in a cost-effective ecosystem, Foxit helps organizations modernize document processes and reclaim productivity. Learn more at www.foxit.com.