University LaTeX Thesis Template Service for ADA Title II & WCAG 2.1 AA Compliance
We update university LaTeX thesis templates to meet the ADA Title II WCAG 2.1 Level AA requirements. You send the template your office publishes today, in LaTeX or Word; we return it producing accessible, tagged PDFs, student guide with a compiled sample your accessibility office can verify independently. Fixed-fee proposal, agreement outlining all scope of work, terms, and conditions.
Template compliance projects for thesis and dissertation offices
When This Service Is a Good Fit
- Your university has an existing LaTeX thesis or dissertation template that needs updating to meet the new ADA Title II and WCAG 2.1 AA requirements.
- Your LaTeX thesis or dissertation template is outdated: written years ago, maintained by someone who has since left, full of code nobody on staff can read.
- You are creating a new LaTeX template from your approved Word thesis template.
- You need the template modernized without changing your university’s approved formatting.
In every case, we handle the technical work so your office can keep publishing a professionally maintained, institution-approved LaTeX template without anyone on staff becoming a LaTeX expert.
The Compliance Requirement, Briefly
The DOJ’s Title II web rule sets WCAG 2.1 Level AA as the standard for what public institutions publish online, including the theses and dissertations in your ETD repository. Compliance is due April 26, 2027 for institutions serving a population of 50,000 or more, and April 26, 2028 for smaller public entities; many universities have set internal deadlines a term or more earlier.
For LaTeX theses, the template decides compliance. Heading structure, reading order, figure descriptions, and readable mathematics are all determined by the template students fill in, not by anything they do afterward. Fix the template once and every subsequent thesis is compliant by default; leave it and you are asking each student to hand-remediate a finished PDF.
What We Do
You provide your current template or word template. We deliver it updated so that it:
produces tagged, accessible PDFs meeting WCAG 2.1 AA and the PDF/UA standard by default
preserves your required formatting exactly: title page, margins, front matter order, heading styles, pagination
outputs mathematics as MathML, navigable by screen readers, rather than as images they cannot read
gives students one clearly marked place to write figure descriptions, with everything that could break compliance locked away from them
Where the existing template contains outdated or redundant code, we remove it and document what changed.
What You’ll Receive
The updated template
Ready to publish on your graduate school site or Overleaf. Every thesis submitted through it produces a compliant PDF without student remediation.
Verifiable compliance evidence
A compiled sample thesis PDF and a verification note stating what was corrected and how to test it. Your accessibility office can confirm the result with a screen reader before rollout, and the verification belongs in your ADA compliance record. We never ask you to rely on our word or an automated checker’s score.
A one-page student guide
Covering the two compiler settings to select in Overleaf and how to write image descriptions. Nothing else about the template requires student attention.
Two included revision round
Against your institution’s formatting requirements, so the compliant template is also the correct template.
How It Works
1. Contact us
By email ([email protected]) or through the request form, with your current template and your rollout date if you have one.
2. Receive a fixed quote within 1 business day
A flat fee, a delivery date in writing, and the exact deliverables.
3. We complete the work
With a progress update at the midpoint.
4. You verify and publish
Your office tests the sample PDF, requests any formatting revisions, and rolls out on its own schedule.
Why TheLaTeXLab
LaTeX PDF compliance is our core work.
General LaTeX consultants format documents; making a LaTeX template produce genuinely compliant tagged PDFs is a different discipline that LaTeX itself only recently made possible. Enabling it inside an older template typically breaks the document outright, and the components that cause it are known to us because we work on this daily. We built and maintain a free LaTeX accessibility checker that identifies exactly these problems; run your template through it and in thirty seconds you will see what we would be fixing.
Mathematics is handled properly.
Most remediation approaches leave equations as images that screen readers cannot read, while automated checkers keep reporting a passing score. Our templates output mathematics as MathML under the current PDF/UA-2 standard, genuinely navigable by assistive technology, and we state plainly which screen readers support it today.
We tell you the truth, in writing.
We never use the words “certified” or “guaranteed” about accessibility, because no honest vendor can. Where content cannot yet be made compliant, certain chemistry notation for instance, we say so and direct you to the ADA’s documented exception process. Every claim we make about your template is one your accessibility office can verify with the sample PDF we deliver. For an office that has to defend its compliance record, that verifiability is the point.
If Your Current Template Is in Word
Many offices maintain the official template in Word, with the LaTeX version missing or abandoned. We build the compliant LaTeX thesis template directly from your Word template, matching the required layout exactly, so both formats enforce the same standards and students can choose either. You can see our Word to LaTeX Conversion Service.
Request a Proposal
University template projects are scoped individually, because every institution’s template, formatting rules, and rollout calendar are different. The process:
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Step 1
We review the template you send and assess what compliance requires for it.
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Step 2
We define the scope with you: update the existing LaTeX template, rebuild from Word, or cover multiple templates across programs.
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Step 3
You receive a fixed-fee proposal with exact deliverables and a delivery timeline in writing.
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Step 4
Work begins after your institutional approval and contracting. We are familiar with university procurement and can work within your purchasing process.
If the template needs formatting work beyond compliance, the same team handles LaTeX thesis and dissertation formatting end to end.
Contact us at: [email protected].
Frequently Asked Questions
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Update Your University's LaTeX Thesis Template to meet ADA Title II and WCAG 2.1 AA Compliance
Send your current template. We rebuild it to produce accessible, tagged PDFs, MathML, with a verifiable sample your accessibility office can test.