Document & PDF Accessibility Audits

Document & PDF Accessibility Audits

Financial institutions generate thousands of regulatory documents, annual reports, and customer communications. Our document audit service ensures all PDF and digital documents meet PDF/UA (ISO 14289) and WCAG standards.

We audit document structure, reading order, alternative text for images and charts, table markup, form field labels, and language identification. Our reports include step-by-step remediation instructions for Adobe Acrobat Pro, InDesign, and Microsoft Office workflows.

Plan document accessibility testing and remediation

An accessible document needs to communicate its information in a meaningful order. Select representative files from your document library, including long reports, tables, application forms and scanned material. Group files by source template so repeated problems can be addressed where the documents are created.

Checks to include in a PDF accessibility audit

• Document title, language, tags, headings and reading order.
• Text alternatives for informative images and clear links.
• Table structure, including the relationship between headers and data cells.
• Labels, instructions and keyboard access for interactive form fields.
• Whether scanned pages contain usable text and whether the original meaning is preserved.

Automated validation is one part of the review. Check the document with assistive technology and verify that readers can understand its structure and complete any required tasks. Agree whether your project includes editing source documents, repairing exported PDFs, or both.

For online retail platforms, include product information, instructions, invoices and return forms that customers need to use. Check the website journey as well through a website accessibility audit.