Are Your PDFs Breaking ADA Law? Silktide vs. Siteimprove vs. Semrush

Your website's HTML might be fully WCAG 2.2 AA compliant, but what about the hundreds of PDFs sitting in your download folders? In this reality check, we dig into how three major web-management platforms, Silktide, Siteimprove, and Semrush, actually handle (or fail to handle) PDF accessibility. We cover why legacy PDFs carry the exact same legal accessibility requirements as your web pages, what automated testing can and can't catch, and where Silktide's sitewide discovery and Siteimprove's pre-publish validation workspace genuinely differ. ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 - Intro: PDFs are everywhere 0:41 - Are your PDFs breaking the law? 1:22 - Defining the rules: WCAG 2.2 Level AA 2:33 - Section 1: The PDF compliance challenge 2:51 - Why accountability falls through the cracks 3:38 - Why Semrush is out of the running 3:55 - Section 2: Silktide vs. Siteimprove 4:44 - What automated testing actually catches 5:12 - Where human judgment still matters 6:15 - Siteimprove's PDF validation workspace 6:43 - Silktide's pre-publication safety net 7:36 - Final verdict: choosing the right tool 🔑 KEY TAKEAWAYS PDFs fall under the same WCAG 2.2 AA requirements as HTML pages Semrush has no native PDF accessibility auditing Siteimprove: best for a content-creator checkpoint before publishing Silktide: best for taming an entire site's worth of existing PDFs, prioritized by download activity If your organization manages a website with any volume of PDFs, policies, reports, forms, this is the compliance gap you don't know you have. #PDFAccessibility #WCAG #ADACompliance #WebAccessibility #Silktide #Siteimprove #Semrush #DigitalAccessibility #ComplianceCheck