Your audit is ready
The four sample artefacts below are from a different document (BJJ-2025-0712), shown to demonstrate what a full audit bundle looks like. Your specific Word audit is the file above.
One audit, four files. Each is shaped for a different audience.
EquitableDocs Tool 6 produces a bundle, not a single report. Each artefact is shaped for one audience and one job: prove conformance, demonstrate the reader experience, surface cognitive load, or restate the audit in the audited file's own accessibility register. This page is the router. It names the audited file, gives the verdict, and points you to the output for your role.
- Audited file
- BJJ-2025-0712.R1_NO_ALT.pdf
- Document
- 16 pages, multi-column research article
- Auditor
- EquitableDocs Tool 6 v0.1, human-reviewed
Not met
Four defects affect screen reader output. One blocker, three high-impact.
Not met
Fails 1.1.1, 1.3.1, 1.3.2. Cognitive load high (Grade 14.6).
Accessibility Audit Report
The standards-grade audit. Findings tied to PDF/UA-1, WCAG 2.2 AA, and Section 508, with severity, page reference, and Acrobat repair steps. Shaped for procurement, legal, and remediation teams.
Screen reader walkthrough
Reader-perspective demo. Each finding pairs an NVDA transcript, a tag tree, a page screenshot, and Acrobat fix steps. Hear-it-aloud buttons let sighted reviewers experience the same audio path a screen reader user follows.
Cognitive accessibility walkthrough
Six load points covering reading level, sentence length, all-caps usage, grouping, column order, and bookmarks. Side-by-side before and after rewrites show what each repair changes for the reader.
Easy Read version of the audit
The audit itself, restated in Easy Read style for cognitive readers and for the audience the audited PDF originally failed. One idea per page. Short paragraphs. No jargon.
The three standards behind a PDF audit
WCAG 2.2 is the web-wide accessibility standard. Levels A and AA cover most legal requirements (EN 301 549 in Europe, Section 508 in the US, RPwD Act 2016 in India). It tells you what a document must do: perceivable, operable, understandable, robust.
PDF/UA-1 (ISO 14289-1) is the PDF-specific standard. It tells you how a PDF must be built to deliver WCAG: tagged structure, reading order, alt text, language, bookmarks, no faked headings.
The Matterhorn Protocol is the industry checklist that operationalises PDF/UA. It lists 31 checkpoints and 136 failure conditions a tester verifies, page by page. It is what most professional audits actually run against.
A file can pass an automated checker and still fail Matterhorn. Most reading-order, grouping, and alt-text defects are only visible to a human tester or a real reader. That is why this bundle pairs the standards-grade audit with two reader-perspective walkthroughs.
Why four outputs instead of one report
- A procurement officer needs WCAG mapping and severity counts on the first page.
- A remediator needs page numbers and Acrobat steps.
- A screen reader user needs a transcript that matches their tool.
- A cognitive reader needs short blocks, plain words, and predictable order.
- One document cannot do all four jobs. Four short documents, each for one audience, can.