San Gabriel Valley and Los Angeles County

SoCal Public Agency PDF Accessibility Scorecard

Agendas, forms and flyers are how residents deal with their city. We check public agency PDFs for the problems that stop blind and low-vision residents from reading them with a screen reader. Here's what we found, agency by agency, and how to fix it.

The ADA Title II deadline. The U.S. Department of Justice's 2024 rule requires state and local government web content, including PDFs posted on their websites, to meet WCAG 2.1 Level AA. Under the DOJ's April 20, 2026 interim final rule, the compliance dates are:

April 26, 2027 for state and local governments with a total population of 50,000 or more.
April 26, 2028 for governments under 50,000 and all special district governments.

Source: ADA.gov fact sheet and Federal Register, April 20, 2026. Which date applies depends on the agency's population (Census Bureau figures); this is general information, not legal advice.

Full-site scans, ranked

Ranked by the share of checked PDFs that failed at least one basic check (tags, title, language, text layer, form fields).

Full-site scan results
Rank	Agency	PDFs checked	% failing	Most serious issue	Scan date
1	City of Temple City	188	92.0% (173)	Scanned pages with no real text (28 PDFs)	2026-10-07
2	City of La Puente	193	72.5% (140)	Scanned pages with no real text (36 PDFs)	2026-10-07

Document samples (not yet scanned site-wide)

For these agencies we checked a small number of documents with the veraPDF PDF/UA-1 validator. A few files can't represent a whole website, so we don't rank them or give a site-wide percentage.

Sample results (veraPDF PDF/UA-1)
Agency	PDFs checked	Did not pass	Most common issue	Check date
City of Azusa	1 (sample)	1 of 1	Images with no alt text	2026-10-10
City of Baldwin Park	2 (sample)	2 of 2	Content not tagged or marked as decoration	2026-10-10
City of Covina	1 (sample)	1 of 1	Content not tagged or marked as decoration	2026-10-10
City of El Monte	2 (sample)	2 of 2	Missing document metadata	2026-10-10

How we check

Full-site scan: our scanner visits the agency's public website politely (respecting robots.txt, one request every 1.5 seconds), collects up to 200 PDF links, and checks each file for tags, a title, a language, a text layer and form-field labeling. Document samples: individual files checked with veraPDF, the open-source PDF/UA-1 validator.

These are automated checks of specific, verifiable problems. They are a starting point, not a legal finding. Results reflect the files online on the scan date; agencies may have fixed files since. Ask for a free re-scan of your agency, or add one we haven't covered.

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