Accessibility Grant Program
In April 2024, the Colorado Statewide Internet Portal Authority (SIPA) partnered with Allyant to provide CommonLook Suite Licenses (has both CommonLook PDF and CommonLook Office) and CommonLook Training (CommonLook LMS & Webinar based) to enable your government to make existing PDFs compliant and/or generate compliant PDFs from Word and PowerPoint documents. If you have technical questions for Allyant, please email them at SIPA_CSM@allyant.com.
CommonLook Online is Allyant's highly automated remediation tool which will allow you to remediate complicated pdfs with minimal effort. Access to this tool is included with your accessibility grant, but you'll need to go to the CommonLook Online Sign Up form to request access and input the information for every person you'd like to have access. Please note, this tool will have to be reviewed by a solutions engineer for state agencies. Please contact Amy Walldorf at awalldorf@allyant.com for more information.
You can register for any upcoming introductory trainings from Allyant here: https://allyant.com/events/category/events-training/.
Grant Acceptance Requirements
In order to successfully participate in this program:
- You must have an existing Eligible Government Entity Agreement with SIPA
- Ensure that your government has not already received licenses from this program (List of state and local government recipients)
- You may use CommonLook Online or you must have, or be willing to procure, current versions of Adobe Acrobat PRO and/or MS Office Licenses that are needed to work with the CommonLook licenses
- Licenses will be deployed to a designated administrator for your government to distribute to staff internally
Timeline
Applications Close on April 30, 2026 or when all licenses have been distributed
Ongoing - Allyant Live Training Webinars