# Web Accessibility
Carter Temm on Why Accessibility Isn't About Compliance
Access to information is access to democracy.
Many public documents have no accessibility semantics built in. Senior Accessibility Consultant and Disability Advocate Carter Temm explains that this gap can leave screen reader users understanding only 15 to 20 percent of a document’s content.
In this video, Carter discusses:
- Why so many government documents are effectively unreadable for screen reader users
- What happens when a screen reader encounters an inaccessible PDF
- Why accessibility is a matter of civic participation, separate from legal requirements
- What true equal access requires and how technology can advance or hinder that mission
Watch the video to learn what that means for the documents your community relies on.
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