Accessibility & Compliance
Accessibility & Compliance
The South Carolina International Business Career Guide has been remediated and independently validated: the interactive web guide to WCAG 2.1 Level AA, and the downloadable PDF to PDF/UA (ISO 14289-1). This page collects every validation report and log.
- WCAG 2.1 Level AAInteractive web guide
- PDF/UA (ISO 14289-1)Downloadable PDF
- Section 508Aligned
Validation reports
- Passed PDF
Accessibility Conformance Report
Summary of record
The full conformance narrative: the accessibility work performed on the web guide (WCAG 2.1 AA) and the PDF (PDF/UA), with validator results.
Open report - Passed PDF
PDF/UA-1 Validation — PAC 2026
PDF/UA-1 — 0 failures
PAC 2026 (axes4 / PDF-UA Foundation) — the Windows PDF/UA validator required by many reviewers.
Open report - Passed HTML
PDF/UA-1 Validation — veraPDF
Compliant — 0 failures
The PDF Association’s official open-source ISO 14289-1 validator (the same ruleset PAC uses).
Open report - Passed HTML
Adobe Acrobat Accessibility Checker
“No problems found” — 29 passed, 0 failed
Adobe Acrobat Pro’s full accessibility check of the downloadable PDF — included as an additional, independent verification.
Open report - Passed PDF
Web Accessibility — axe-core / Lighthouse / WAVE
axe-core 0 violations · Lighthouse avg 96.5 · WAVE 0 errors
Automated web-page conformance across all 25 pages of the interactive guide (axe-core, Google Lighthouse, WebAIM WAVE).
Open report
What was validated
Interactive web guide
sc.globalcareershub.com/guide/
- WCAG 2.1 AA — 0 automated violations across all 25 pages (axe-core, re-verified live).
- Color contrast corrected at the design source; axe-core and WAVE report 0 contrast errors.
- Cross-checked with Google Lighthouse and WebAIM WAVE.
Downloadable PDF
sc.globalcareershub.com/guide/guide.pdf
- PDF/UA-1 (ISO 14289-1) — validated compliant in both PAC 2026 and veraPDF (0 failures).
- Adobe Acrobat Accessibility Checker — no problems found (29 passed, 0 failed), as an additional independent verification.
- Tagged reading order, alternate text on all figures, lists & headings, document language, a visible title, and bookmarks.
- The PDF is a static, tagged, screen-reader-navigable export of the guide, provided as a convenience alongside the interactive web experience.
Independent cross-tool confirmation
PDF/UA (ISO 14289-1) conformance is confirmed by two independent validators of the standard — PAC 2026 (Windows) and veraPDF (macOS) — both passing with 0 failures. Their reports are linked above.
Conformance statement
Global Careers Hub is committed to digital accessibility. The South Carolina International Business Career Guide's interactive web guide conforms to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 Level AA, and the downloadable document conforms to PDF/UA (ISO 14289-1), consistent with the U.S. Department of Justice ADA Title II rule and Section 508. Conformance is verified with industry-standard tools — axe-core, Google Lighthouse, and WebAIM WAVE for the web guide, and PAC 2026, veraPDF, and Adobe Acrobat Pro for the PDF.
Automated testing validates a substantial share of the success criteria; meaning-dependent criteria (reading order, link purpose, alternative-text quality) were confirmed manually.