The Colorado Statewide Internet Portal Authority (SIPA) has a new grant program for Colorado governments (state agencies, municipalities, counties & special districts) to help with accessibility compliance. SIPA partnered with
Allyant to provide CommonLook Suite Licenses (has both
CommonLook PDF and
CommonLook Office) and CommonLook Training (
Learning Management System & Webinar based) to enable your government to make existing PDFs compliant and/or generate compliant PDFs from Word and PowerPoint documents.
SIPA and Allyant are working to distribute the remaining licenses. Licenses will be active through April 30, 2025.
Grant Requirements:
- You have an existing Eligible Government Entity Agreement with SIPA
- You have or are willing to procure Adobe Acrobat PRO and/or MS Office Licenses that are needed to work with the CommonLook licenses
- You are 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
- This program is only for Colorado governments. CommonLook licenses will not be awarded to staff at special district management companies.
If Awarded:
- Licenses will be deployed with a renewal date of April 30, 2025
- 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.