Accessibility for every student.
Clearlinks helps K-12 districts and higher-ed institutions meet WCAG, Section 508, ADA, and EN 301 549 — without sending every PDF, page, and video through a separate vendor.
Compliance shouldn't be a full-time job.
We started Clearlinks because the districts we worked with were losing weeks every semester to manual remediation — and still missing the deadlines. Federal complaints were stacking up. Vendor quotes hit six figures.
The work was real and the rules were clear. The tools just hadn't caught up. So we built them. Today, Clearlinks handles documents, websites, and video — in one place, on one bill — for thousands of schools.
How we build, every day.
Conformance is binary. Either the file passes the standard or it doesn't. We optimize for the former.
Built alongside accessibility coordinators, special-ed teachers, and IT directors. Their workflows shape ours.
Every action is logged. Every remediation links to the standard it satisfies. Audit prep takes minutes.
We touch tag trees, not visuals. Your brand looks the same — the screen reader just finally understands it.
From one district to thousands.
- 2020An OCR complaint
A district we worked with received a federal Office for Civil Rights complaint over inaccessible PDFs. We saw the bill for outsourced remediation. It was untenable.
- 2021First prototype
We built a small CLI that tagged PDFs in a single pass. The district passed its follow-up audit with two weeks to spare.
- 2023Beyond PDFs
Districts kept asking the same thing: 'Can you do this for our websites and our lecture archive too?' We launched the scanner and the captioner.
- 2025One platform
Documents, sites, and video on one bill, one audit log, one team to call. Today, 2,500+ schools run on Clearlinks.
"We went from explaining to our board why we were behind on compliance to showing them a live dashboard. Clearlinks moved accessibility from a perpetual project to a solved problem."
Educators, engineers, accessibility experts.
We're a small, distributed team in the US and EU. Most of us came up working inside schools — and it shows in the product.
Former district accessibility coordinator. Wrote the original PDF tagger.
Engineer at an ed-tech you've heard of. Built the scanner and the API.
WAS-certified, 12 years on the assistive-tech side. Keeps us honest.
Ran professional development at a 40k-student district. Onboards every new customer.
Join the districts already ahead of audit.
From a single school to a 200-site district — we'd love to help. Get in touch, or start a free trial today.