Ockem Proof · Learning series

Learn Ockem Proof, one short lesson at a time.

Narrated lessons recorded from the real app, each one to four minutes, with captions and a full transcript. Five tracks, one per audience: start with yours.

For people fixing documents

Remediators

Your first document, the automatic pass, each remediation step, and certifying.

Running time 4:39Lesson 1.1

Your first document, start to finish

Upload, fix, answer, certify: the whole loop on one document.

Running time 3:12Lesson 1.2

Finding your way around

Home, Library, Automate, Review, Reports and Downloads — what each is for.

Running time 3:13Lesson 1.3

Adding documents

Upload PDFs, import by URL, upload a zip, or crawl a website.

Running time 3:29Lesson 1.4

Reading a document's status

The steps, the WCAG report, and Compliant, Needs review and Failed.

Running time 2:38Lesson 1.5

Your account

Password, two-factor sign-in, sessions and notifications.

Running time 3:35Lesson 2.1

The automatic pass

What Proof fixes on its own, and what it hands to a person.

Running time 3:58Lesson 2.2

Remediating in bulk

Start a remediation run across your library, and follow it to its results.

Running time 2:09Lesson 2.3

Your Review queue

Where the decisions only a person can make wait for you.

Running time 3:35Lesson 3.1

Describing pictures

Describe it, it's text, or skip it — starting from an AI-drafted description.

Running time 3:03Lesson 3.2

Charts, diagrams and images of text

Long descriptions for complex images, and pictures that are really text.

Running time 3:32Lesson 3.3

Making tables readable

Turn a grid that only looks like a table into a real one, with its header row and column.

Running time 3:00Lesson 3.4

Tags and headings

Fix the outline a screen reader navigates by: heading levels that skip a step.

Running time 5:57Lesson 3.5

The tag editor

Judge each tag against the page, fix the wrong ones and the words a screen reader says, and apply them as one version.

Running time 3:25Lesson 3.6

Attesting reading order

Check that each page reads in the order a person would read it, fix it, and attest it.

Running time 4:10Lesson 3.7

Checking color contrast

Decide which text and background colors pass, and fix the ones that don't.

Running time 3:13Lesson 3.8

Scanned documents and readable text

When a page is a picture of text, and how Proof makes it readable.

Running time 5:19Lesson 3.9

The last checks before certifying

The questions that wait in the Certify step, like what a screen reader announces for a form field.

Running time 3:10Lesson 3.10

Fixing one rule from the WCAG report

Open the report, find a failing rule, and fix it from its own panel.

Running time 3:55Lesson 4.1

Certifying a document

The approval gate, the certificate, and when your balance is used.

Running time 2:34Lesson 4.2

Downloading and sharing

Remediated PDFs, certificates, zip exports, and share links.

Running time 2:57Lesson 4.3

When a document needs rebuilding

Park a document that can't be fixed in place, bring in the rebuilt file, and return it to the work.

Running time 4:29Lesson 5.1

Projects and folders

Keep separate collections apart as projects, and group documents in folders.

Running time 3:19Lesson 5.2

Keeping up with your website

Check a folder against your website, and bring a changed file in as a new version.

Running time 3:24Lesson 5.3

Exporting many documents

A whole folder as one zip, what is left out and why, and spreadsheet exports.

Running time 4:32Lesson 6.1

How a review session works

The session screen every Review lane shares: keys, flags, Undo, AI pre-reads, and what an attestation records.

Running time 3:15Lesson 6.2

Reading order, many documents

Walk the flagged pages of many documents, redraw what reads wrong, and save each document as one version.

Running time 2:38Lesson 6.3

Images of text

Tell a logo from a paragraph saved as a picture, attest the document, or flag the one that fails.

Running time 2:41Lesson 6.4

Alt text drafts

Describe it, it's text, or skip it: answer Proof's drafts and apply them as one version.

Running time 2:43Lesson 6.5

Readable text

Judge garbled text: not material, repair it here, or flag it for a fix at the source.

Running time 2:46Lesson 6.6

Language of parts

Walk each passage in another language and confirm it is marked or exempt.

Running time 2:03Lesson 6.7

Sensory characteristics

Find instructions that rely on shape, color or position alone, and attest or flag them.

Running time 2:57Lesson 6.8

Focus visible

Tab through a form in a reader, name its fields, and attest that focus is visible.

Then try it on one of your own PDFs.

Free, no account: a verified email, one document per email, up to 10 pages and 50 MB. Get the remediated file and its verification record, and see which checks still need a person.

Longer document? Request an assessment.