# Web Accessibility
Preparing Your Documents for the Upcoming Accessibility Deadlines
Learn how upcoming federal accessibility requirements impact your documents – and see how local governments can instantly make their PDFs accessible without hours of manual remediation.
Original Air Date: Thursday, May 7th
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Learn how upcoming federal accessibility requirements will impact your local government website — and what you can do now to prepare. In this 45-minute session, accessibility and product experts break down the upcoming deadlines, demonstrate how PDFs can be instantly converted into accessible, mobile-friendly HTML, and share practical, scalable strategies for making your website design, content, and documents accessible without years of manual remediation.
Meet Your Speaker
Mariah Herschelman
Account Executive, CivicPlus
Mariah is an Account Executive at CivicPlus, where she oversees DocAccess solutions. She works with state and local government agencies to address large-scale PDF accessibility and ADA compliance needs, bringing deep experience supporting public sector organizations. Mariah partners closely with customers to help them evaluate DocAccess, align internal stakeholders, and meet WCAG 2.1 AA requirements through a scalable, long-term approach to document accessibility.
Mac Clemmens
Senior Vice President of Product Strategy and Innovation at CivicPlus
CivicPlus® Senior Vice President of Product Strategy and Innovation Mac Clemmens is the Co-Founder of DocAccess and Streamline. Mac is a proud advocate of website accessibility and local government, having presented on the subject at conferences nationwide. He received the prestigious “Vision Award” from Disability Rights California—the nation’s largest disability rights advocacy organization—in recognition of his commitment to creating accessible website experiences for all users. Mac is passionate about helping local governments tell their stories and engage with their communities, ensuring that the fear of ADA noncompliance doesn’t stand in the way.
Driven by the real challenges local governments face around PDF accessibility, Mac created DocAccess, a tool designed to make compliance achievable while significantly improving the user experience for people with disabilities and the public at large. To date, more than 10 million document pages have been made WCAG 2.1 AA compliant through DocAccess.