SensusAccess
Self-service conversion of documents into accessible formats, and remediation of inaccessible PDFs.
Jobs Accessibility — makes another format, and remediates from the source Convert
Since 2010
Operated by Sensus ApS
Where your files are processed
Files leave your device
We observed a file upload to sensusaccess.com.
A hosted service. The vendor's fair processing notice describes source documents arriving on the SensusAccess reception server and being handled by processing agents. That processing is stated to be entirely automated with no human interaction, and the servers are in Sensus's own data centre in Denmark — but the file leaves your device, which is the fact this field exists to carry. The API and the LMS integrations are a different edition from the self-service form: they are sold by subscription and need an account and credentials, while the vendor's fair-processing notice says ordinary users of the service do not have to sign up. The account requirement belongs to the integration, not to the service as a whole.
What it does
SensusAccess is a hosted service that turns a document into a format somebody can actually use: audio in MP3 or DAISY, e-books in EPUB, digital Braille, large print, or a reflowable reading view. It also remediates inaccessible material — an image-only PDF, a photograph of a page, a PowerPoint deck — by running OCR and rebuilding the text. Institutions license it so their students and staff can convert documents themselves without asking anyone, and a separate higher-volume product handles bulk remediation.
Best for: Universities, colleges and libraries with a duty to provide accessible course material, where the requirement is that a student can convert a document on their own rather than wait for a specialist. It is aimed at institutions rather than individuals, and The formats it produces are what it is for: audio, e-books, digital Braille, large print and a reflowable reading view.
Worth knowing: It is a service, so documents are uploaded: the vendor's own notice says source documents are received on their reception server and processed there, and for a document containing personal data that is a decision rather than a detail. It is also institution-facing — pricing is by licence, there is no published figure and no self-service sign-up for an individual, so a reader cannot evaluate the cost from the website at all. The formats are the point and also the limit: it converts and remediates, but it does not check a document against PDF/UA or WCAG and will not tell you whether one passes, which it why it does not replace a validator. And its remediation is largely an OCR-and-rebuild operation, so a document with a structure problem rather than a text problem is not what it is for. The brand covers three services and this record describes the first: the self-service converter, a high-volume Remediator, and SensusComply, which is manual remediation. Their limits are not the same and the homepage offers them separately. The vendor's notice also records what happens to a file: the source is deleted after processing, generated delivery files are kept for up to seven days, and copies may sit in email spam filters, so deletion is not one immediate event.
Details, and where each comes from
Vendor statements, our own reading of their pages, and the things nobody has established yet, each answered separately. Where we have not confirmed something it says so rather than guessing, and a row nobody has established is greyed out.
- Versions covered
- Web
- Website
- sensusaccess.com
- Requires an account
- Not verified
- Free tier
- Not verified
- Watermark on the free tier
- Not verified
- Maximum file size
- Not verified
- Batch processing
- Not verified
- Data residency
- European Union
- Open source
- No
- Self-hostable
- Not verified
- Licence
- Institutional licence; no price published on the pages read
- Redaction
- No redaction feature
- Programmatic access
- HTTP API
- Last availability check
- Responded in 908 ms 16 October 2026
Checked automatically by our own runner, not reported by the vendor. 100% of our last 30 checks got a response.
What the redaction verdict rests on
From the vendor's own documentation, read 22 September 2026. Not tested by us.
What that does not establish: Recorded as `none` on absence: the service description is a list of what it produces — audio, e-books, Braille, large print, BeeLine reading views, translations and remediated documents — and redaction is not among them, nor is any claim to remove content from a PDF it returns. What it does not establish: what the remediated output contains. A document put through OCR and rebuilt is a new file, and the service makes no claim about what happens to the original's hidden data; a reader treating this as a redaction step would be using it for something it does not describe.
What the vendor says
Claims are labelled rather than repeated as fact. Where we have checked something ourselves, it says so and shows when. Checked means we read the vendor's own page and it says what we recorded — not that we tested the behaviour, unless the note says we did.
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“SensusAccess is a one-stop self-service, alternate media and document remediation service for educational institutions.”
Checked by us — the source says this Read 1 October 2026
Confirmed. The quoted text appears in the rendered page as read on 2026-10-01. This claim was carried as reported rather than checked until this read.
Standing: Not re-read against the live source
Check it yourself: the source, the SHA-256, and how we checked
- From
- the text a browser renders
- SHA-256
- a1613bcf26bbae156bcfeacb0eb5ffb530a2ffd64b997cd5e908b84eaad5a2e1
How we checked: Read as rendered text in headless Chrome on 2026-10-01 and saved to the evidence archive, so the read can be repeated against the same file. Comparison ignores case, punctuation and hyphenation, which is why "open-source" on the record matches "open source" on the page.
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“The SensusAccess service is hosted on servers in Sensus’ own data centre in Denmark.”
Checked by us — the source says this Read 1 October 2026
Confirmed. The quoted text appears in the rendered page as read on 2026-10-01. This claim was carried as reported rather than checked until this read.
Standing: Not re-read against the live source
Check it yourself: the source, the SHA-256, and how we checked
- From
- the text a browser renders
- SHA-256
- 1622bb7aa2f72e8a9ea30967046ba68f9948aabfcf2641b5d3872ba4b4a6ce3e
How we checked: Read as rendered text in headless Chrome on 2026-10-01 and saved to the evidence archive, so the read can be repeated against the same file. Comparison ignores case, punctuation and hyphenation, which is why "open-source" on the record matches "open source" on the page.
Each claim is quoted from the vendor's own pages. This section describes what we have and have not checked — it is not a judgement about anyone.
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Related reading
- Checking a PDF for accessibility — what makes a PDF accessible, and how it is checked.