LaTeX Accessibility

Accessible LaTeX Thesis Templates for ADA Title II and WCAG 2.1 AA

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Our LaTeX experts rebuild your university's thesis and dissertation templates so every PDF your students compile is tagged and accessible, meeting ADA Title II and WCAG 2.1 AA. We also make university press and journal, course templates accessible, and remediate PDFs.

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Accessible LaTeX Templates for Theses, Journals, and University Press

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A thesis built from an accessible LaTeX template

LaTeX Thesis & Dissertation Templates

Rebuilt once, so every thesis written in it is accessible.

  • ADA Title II and WCAG 2.1 AA
  • Tagged PDF/UA-2 by default
  • Your approved formatting kept
  • Author guide for students
A university journal article in an accessible LaTeX template

University Journal Templates

Accessible templates for the journals your university publishes.

  • Department journals and law reviews
  • Tagged PDF/UA-2 from the first issue
  • Equations as MathML
  • Each journal's layout kept
University press books and reports

Other University Templates

University press, lecture notes, slides, and reports.

  • University press books
  • Lecture notes and Beamer slides
  • Technical reports
  • Department templates
A published PDF being remediated for accessibility

PDF Remediation

Published PDFs brought to WCAG 2.1 AA.

  • Deposited theses and dissertations
  • Articles and reports
  • Course materials
  • Validated with veraPDF

Accessible LaTeX Thesis & Dissertation Templates

Custom proposal. Built by LaTeX experts. Revisions until you sign off.

Our LaTeX experts rebuild your thesis template once, and every thesis and dissertation written in it after that is accessible.

The template every graduate student writes in. We rebuild it once, and every thesis and dissertation written in it after that meets ADA Title II and WCAG 2.1 AA by default. Title page, margins, front matter order, heading styles, and pagination stay exactly as your office approved them.

What You Get

The accessible LaTeX template, a compiled sample thesis, a veraPDF PDF/UA-2 verification report, and an author guide for your students.

Secure and confidential

Your manuscript is safe with us: all LaTeX experts sign a confidentiality agreement to make sure that your unpublished paper is protected.

Scope

  • Thesis and dissertation templates, from Masters to PhD
  • Tagging with LaTeX's built-in \DocumentMetadata
  • Equations tagged as MathML with LuaLaTeX
  • One marked place per figure for alt text
  • Your formatting requirements kept exactly

Standards your template will meet

  • WCAG 2.1 AA
  • PDF/UA-2 (PDF 2.0)
  • ADA Title II, for US public universities

Process

  1. Send us your templates and your rollout date
  2. Scoping call, proposal, and agreement
  3. We build the template and validate it with veraPDF and a screen reader
  4. Your office verifies the sample PDF and publishes the template

Frequently Asked Questions

Will authors need to change how they write?

Only two things: compile with LuaLaTeX, and write a description for each figure in the place the template marks for it. The author guide covers both.

Does the accessible template change our formatting?

No. Title page, margins, front matter order, heading styles, and pagination stay exactly as your office approved them.

How do we confirm the output is compliant?

We validate the sample PDF with veraPDF against PDF/UA-2 and check it by hand with a screen reader. Your accessibility office then tests it before rollout, and the report belongs in your ADA Title II compliance record.

Accessible University Journal Templates

Custom proposal. Built by LaTeX experts. Revisions until you sign off.

Our LaTeX experts build templates for your university's journals, so every article PDF is accessible from the first issue.

LaTeX templates for the journals your university publishes, from department journals to law reviews. Every article compiled with the template comes out tagged and accessible, meeting ADA Title II and WCAG 2.1 AA, and each journal keeps its own approved layout.

What You Get

The accessible journal template, a compiled sample article, a veraPDF PDF/UA-2 verification report, and an author guide for your contributors.

Secure and confidential

Your manuscript is safe with us: all LaTeX experts sign a confidentiality agreement to make sure that your unpublished paper is protected.

Scope

  • Journal class files and author templates
  • Headings, lists, tables, and figures tagged
  • Equations tagged as MathML with LuaLaTeX
  • One marked place per figure for alt text
  • Each journal's approved layout kept exactly

Standards your template will meet

  • WCAG 2.1 AA
  • PDF/UA-2 (PDF 2.0)
  • ADA Title II, for US public universities

Process

  1. Send us your templates and your rollout date
  2. Scoping call, proposal, and agreement
  3. We build the template and validate it with veraPDF and a screen reader
  4. Your office verifies the sample PDF and publishes the template

Frequently Asked Questions

Can you build templates for several journals?

Yes. We scope them together in one proposal and deliver them in the order your team needs.

What about articles we have already published?

Our PDF remediation service brings published article PDFs to WCAG 2.1 AA, scoped separately from the template work.

Will authors need to change how they write?

Only two things: compile with LuaLaTeX, and write a description for each figure in the place the template marks for it. The author guide covers both.

Other Accessible University Templates

Custom proposal. Built by LaTeX experts. Revisions until you sign off.

Wherever your university publishes from LaTeX, our experts make the template produce accessible PDFs.

Book and monograph templates for your university press, lecture notes, Beamer slides, technical reports, and department templates. Wherever your university publishes from LaTeX, we can make the template produce accessible PDFs that meet ADA Title II and WCAG 2.1 AA.

What You Get

Each accessible template, a compiled sample document, a veraPDF PDF/UA-2 verification report, and an author guide.

Secure and confidential

Your manuscript is safe with us: all LaTeX experts sign a confidentiality agreement to make sure that your unpublished paper is protected.

Scope

  • Tagging with LaTeX's built-in \DocumentMetadata
  • Equations tagged as MathML with LuaLaTeX
  • One marked place per figure for alt text
  • Your approved formatting kept exactly
  • Validated with veraPDF and checked with a screen reader

Templates we make accessible

  • University press books and monographs
  • Lecture notes
  • Beamer slides
  • Technical reports
  • Department and course templates

Process

  1. Send us your templates and your rollout date
  2. Scoping call, proposal, and agreement
  3. We build the template and validate it with veraPDF and a screen reader
  4. Your office verifies the sample PDF and publishes the template

Frequently Asked Questions

Can you make our Beamer slides accessible too?

Yes. We can make your department's Beamer template produce accessible slides. See accessible Beamer slides.

Do you only work on templates?

No. For documents your university has already published, our PDF remediation service brings them to WCAG 2.1 AA.

How do we confirm the output is compliant?

We validate the sample PDF with veraPDF against PDF/UA-2 and check it by hand with a screen reader. Your accessibility office then tests it before rollout, and the report belongs in your ADA Title II compliance record.

PDF Remediation for Universities

Custom proposal. Built by LaTeX experts. Revisions until you sign off.

Our experts remediate the PDFs your university has already published, so they meet WCAG 2.1 AA as ADA Title II requires.

For documents that are already published: deposited theses and dissertations, articles, reports, and course materials. We remediate the PDFs to WCAG 2.1 AA, as ADA Title II requires, and scope the work separately from any template project. No source files are needed.

What You Get

Remediated PDFs, a veraPDF report per file, and a note on any content current tools can't make accessible.

Secure and confidential

Your manuscript is safe with us: all LaTeX experts sign a confidentiality agreement to make sure that your unpublished paper is protected.

Scope

  • Tags, headings, and reading order
  • Alt text written for figures
  • Tables tagged with header cells
  • Document language, title, and metadata set
  • Validated with veraPDF and checked with a screen reader

Documents we remediate

  • Theses and dissertations in your repository
  • Articles from your university's journals
  • Reports and white papers
  • Course materials
  • University press books and chapters

Process

  1. Send a sample of your PDFs and the volume
  2. Pilot, proposal, and agreement
  3. Remediation and validation in batches
  4. Delivery with a report per file

Frequently Asked Questions

Do you need the original source files?

No. We remediate the published PDF itself. If you have the LaTeX source, rebuilding from it can give a better result, and we will tell you which route suits each file.

How do you handle a large backlog?

We remediate a sample first, then scope the rest in batches with a delivery schedule you agree to.

Can you remediate PDFs with equations?

Yes. Where current tools can't make an equation fully accessible, we say so in the report instead of hiding it.

Tagged PDF/UA-2 Output from Your Accessible LaTeX Template

  • Tagged PDFs by Default

    The template uses LaTeX's built-in tagging (\DocumentMetadata) to write headings, lists, tables, figures, reading order, and document language into the PDF structure. The output targets PDF/UA-2 and WCAG 2.1 AA, with no extra step for the author.

  • Your Formatting, Untouched

    Title page, margins, front matter order, heading styles, and pagination stay exactly as your office approved them.

  • Mathematics a Screen Reader Can Read

    Compiled with LuaLaTeX, equations are tagged as MathML instead of being left as unlabelled glyphs. We tell you plainly which screen readers read it today and which don't.

  • One Place for Figure Descriptions

    Alt text goes in one clearly marked place per figure, and everything that could break compliance is kept out of the author's reach.

Building Purdue University's Accessible LaTeX Thesis Template

Purdue University chose TheLaTeXLab to build its LaTeX thesis template to meet ADA Title II and WCAG 2.1 AA. The template produces tagged PDF/UA-2 files while keeping Purdue's thesis formatting requirements exactly as they are.

  • Meets ADA Title II and WCAG 2.1 AA
  • Your approved formatting kept exactly
  • A compiled sample your office can test on its own
  • Experience with university procurement and agreements
  • LaTeX support for students and long-term template maintenance
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What You Receive: Template, veraPDF Report, and Author Guide

  1. LaTeX Template

    Ready to publish on your university's site or in Overleaf.

  2. A Compiled Sample Document and a Verification Report

    With the veraPDF PDF/UA-2 results, what was corrected, and how to test it. Your accessibility office confirms the result with a screen reader before rollout, and the report belongs in your ADA Title II compliance record.

  3. An Author Guide

    Covering the compiler to select (LuaLaTeX) and how to write figure descriptions. Nothing else about the template needs the author's attention.

  4. Revisions Until Your Office Signs Off

    Against your institution's formatting requirements, so the accessible template is also the correct template.

Is your current LaTeX template ADA Title II and WCAG 2.1 AA compliant?

Run your template through our free LaTeX accessibility checker. It takes about thirty seconds and shows the same problems we would fix. No form, no email.

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Our 4-Step Accessible LaTeX Template Process

  1. Send Us Your Template

    By email (help@thelatexlab.com) or through the enquiry form. Tell us which templates are in scope, any PDFs you need remediated, and your rollout date if you have one.

  2. Scoping Call, Proposal, and Agreement

    We agree the scope with your team on a call, then send a written proposal with deliverables and a timeline for your procurement to sign.

  3. We Build the Accessible LaTeX Template

    Built to your formatting guidelines, with tagging and MathML added. We validate the output with veraPDF against PDF/UA-2 and check it by hand with a screen reader.

  4. You Verify and Publish

    Your office tests the template and the sample PDF, asks for any revisions, and publishes the template on its own schedule.

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