Accessibility Grant Program

The Colorado Statewide Internet Portal Authority (SIPA) has a new grant program for Colorado governments to help with your accessibility compliance needs. SIPA has 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.

NEW! CommonLook Online is Allyant's new 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.

Ongoing Training:

You can register for any upcoming introductory trainings from Allyant here: https://allyant.com/events/category/events-training/.

Grant Reporting

New Grant Request

Add-On Request for Current Recipients

Grant Acceptance Requirements

In order to successfully participate in this program:

You must have an existing Eligible Government Entity Agreement with SIPA
You must have, or be willing to procure, Adobe Acrobat PRO and/or MS Office Licenses that are needed to work with the CommonLook licenses
You must be willing to provide quarterly updates to SIPA on the number of PDFs made compliant through this program
Licenses will be deployed to a designated administrator for your government to distribute to staff internally
License recipients will have 45 days to deploy the CommonLook licenses they are allocated.
Unused licenses will be returned to the grant pool so that more Colorado governments can benefit from this program.