PDF & Word Audits

We're the Experts

me2 are experts in accessibility testing and WCAG 2.1 auditing of PDF documents, MS Word documents, and other non-HTML document formats.

All our consultants are technical accessibility experts with years of experience and have undertaken hundreds of audits.

Expert Human Analysis

Our team manually review each PDF document against the relevant WCAG 2.1 guidelines Level A and AA Success Criteria.

Word documents are not covered by the WCAG 2.1 Guidelines. We test each Word doc against a set of 'me2 Word Guidelines', industry best practices and the principles of the WCAG guidelines.

Testing Tools

We test use a combination of accessibility testing features within Adobe Acrobat Pro to assist us identify issues.

Assistive Technology

To ensure real world accessibility we test the site using screen readers (JAWS, NVDA) and screen readers (ZoomText).

Keyboard Only

Critical to the accessibility of a document is being able to use it with only a keyboard (screen reader users don't use a mouse !!)

Our reports are easy to read and understand, whilst offering technical recommendations and bespoke code solutions.

Issue Description

We cite the relevant Guideline and provide a detailed outline of the issue and why it impacts accessibility.

• WCAG 2.1 Guidelines
• me2 Word Guidelines
• Industry Best Practice Guidelines

The description is particularly useful for people unfamiliar with assistive technology or accessibility issues.

Bespoke Recommendations

Tailor-made recommendations including code snippets and screen grabs to illustrate the issue and solution.

Test Method

How content creators can replicate this test themselves and check if the problem has been fixed.

Severity

All issues are not equal. We rate how severe the issue is. An issue is rated as:

• Minor
• Problematic
• Serious
• Catastrophic

We Include More Examples

One big failure of traditional testing is lack of examples.

Developers only fix the issues in the audit and are unable to extrapolate the issues across the site.

We overcome this problem by citing multiple examples of the issue - allowing for the issue to be easily identified and fixed across the all the templates.