City of Temple City: PDF accessibility results
Here is what we found on the City of Temple City website, and how to fix it. We share this to help; many agencies are working through the same issues before the ADA Title II deadline.
Full-site scan results
Scan date: 2026-10-07 18:48 PT Sample: 188 PDFs checked (of 200 links found, 59 web pages crawled)
92.0%
of PDFs checked failed at least one basic check (173 of 188).
930
pages in failing PDFs (of 1,007 pages checked).
28
scanned PDFs with no text layer (a screen reader hears nothing).
All issues found
| Issue | PDFs |
|---|---|
| No document title | 162 |
| No document language set | 62 |
| Not tagged (no structure for screen readers) | 61 |
| No text layer (scanned image) - needs OCR | 28 |
| Title not shown in window (DisplayDocTitle off) | 11 |
Basic checks: tags, title, language, text layer, form fields. Site: https://www.templecityca.gov. Up to 200 PDF links per scan, collected politely (robots.txt respected).
The 3 biggest problems
Ranked by how much each blocks access (unreadable scans and unlabeled forms first), then by pages affected.
Scanned pages with no real text
28 PDFs, 127 pages. These files are pictures of paper. A screen reader finds nothing to read, and nobody can search or copy the text.
Fix: Convert to real, proofread text (OCR), then tag the structure.
Files with no tags
61 PDFs, 542 pages. Without tags, a screen reader can't tell headings, lists, tables or reading order apart. Long agendas become one undivided stream of words.
Fix: Add tags for headings, lists, tables and reading order, and describe images.
No language set
62 PDFs, 546 pages. The screen reader guesses the language, so Spanish or Chinese text may be read aloud with English pronunciation.
Fix: Set the document language, and mark any passages in other languages.
See the full one-page summary: Temple City "3 biggest problems" report.
Detailed scan: Temple City scan report.
Document samples: veraPDF PDF/UA-1 check
Check date: 2026-10-10 Sample: 2 PDFs (not a full-site scan)
We downloaded 2 public PDFs and ran the veraPDF PDF/UA-1 validator. 2 of 2 did not pass.
| Document | Result | Fixed sample |
|---|---|---|
| City Council Special Meeting Minutes, July 7, 2026 | 5 failed checks, 5 rules | Fixed PDF · Before/after |
| News Release: City Commissioner Recruitment | 12 failed checks, 7 rules | Fixed PDF · Before/after |
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