Budget books · Accessibility · Finance support
We turn spreadsheets, scans and finance-system printouts into clear, accessible budget books, ready to print, post as a tagged PDF and publish on your website. Your finance office stays on the numbers.
Our research
Finance offices spend months getting the numbers right. Then the budget goes online as a spreadsheet printout or a scan, because there’s no time left to do more. We checked every county, city, town and township in the country to see how common that is.
83%
of the 12,452 budgets we could read online were made with basic office tools or scanned on a copier.
71%
of budget PDFs have no accessibility tags, so a screen reader can’t follow the tables or charts.
28%
of recent federal single audits were filed after the nine-month deadline.
Source: Town & Page review of budgets posted by 38,736 US counties, cities, towns and townships, and the Federal Audit Clearinghouse, September 2026. Read the findings
What we do
Take one service or all three. Each is scoped with your staff and quoted as a fixed fee before any work begins.
We turn your adopted figures into a finished book: designed for print, tagged for screen readers and published as a web page residents can read on a phone. You keep the templates, so next year starts from a finished book instead of a blank page.
We tag and repair your budget, annual financial report and other public PDFs to WCAG 2.1 AA, then set up accessible templates so new documents don’t need fixing after the fact.
Year-end close, audit preparation and reporting help for offices that are short-staffed or behind. We work alongside your staff and your auditor, not around them.
The ADA web rule
The Department of Justice’s Title II rule requires state and local governments to make their web content accessible, PDFs included, to WCAG 2.1 Level AA. Budgets posted after your compliance date have to meet it.
Send us the link to your budget and we’ll tell you where it stands.
How it works
Most of our work happens while your staff is busy with the numbers. This is a typical year for a July 1 fiscal year. We schedule around yours.
January
Send last year’s book and this year’s working figures. A spreadsheet, a finance-system export or a scan is fine.
February–March
We lay out the book, chart the numbers and draft plain-language summaries. Your staff reviews one shared draft.
April–May
As the governing body changes the budget, we update every figure and chart, usually within the week.
June
A print-ready PDF, an accessible PDF and a web page for your site, all ready before July 1.
About us
Before designing a single page, we looked at how every county, city, town and township in the country publishes its budget. We found careful finance staff working with tools that were never built for publishing. Town & Page exists to close that gap.
More about usWorking with us
Tell us about your government and we’ll send a fixed quote within two business days.