What changed in Proof, and what it lets us say.

Of the 50 WCAG 2.1 Level A and AA criteria, 39 can apply to a PDF, and Proof now has a check for every one. The new checks cover use of color; how a form behaves (on focus and on input, error messages, submission, labels in names, input purpose); what scripts do (content on hover, motion, status messages); and embedded audio and video (captions, audio description, audio control). Non-text contrast now covers chart keys and charts, and keyboard access and focus visibility are evaluated on documents with links.

Where the thing a check looks for is absent — no chart, no submit button, no custom script — the check passes and says why, so a person is asked only about documents that have it.

When every criterion that applies to a document was evaluated, its certificate says so: “every one of the M WCAG 2.1 Level A/AA criteria that apply to this document (M of M)”, with M the number that apply. Certificates issued earlier keep their “N of the M”.

When a criterion applies and was not evaluated, the certificate now names it, by number and name, in its “Not claimed” section, and the public verification page says the same. Certificates issued earlier add the names the next time their holder opens or downloads them in Ockem Proof.

Administrators assign documents with a due date and a hand-off note, and can mention a teammate. Routing rules send newly imported documents to a person by folder, tag or language, and assigned work leads each member’s feed.

Finished work is handed in for approval. An approver — who needn’t be an administrator — approves it or sends it back with a reason. Follow a document or a whole folder to get one daily digest of what changed. When someone leaves, their open work is handed on instead of orphaned.

Webhooks carry the new events too: assigned, ready for approval, sent back, import finished and remediation finished. An endpoint that keeps failing is switched off and your administrators are told.

Team workflow comes with multi-seat plans, which we set up with you.

Every automatic fix is now checked against the version before it. If a fix would delete text, hide it from a screen reader, or — for a structural fix — change what is painted on the page, Proof refuses it and the run carries on from the earlier version.

A new version after approval withdraws the certificate until a fresh check issues a new one. A rule Proof could not evaluate is listed as a manual review and counted on the certificate, never dropped.

Two checks got stricter: a list or data table tagged as plain paragraphs no longer passes, and neither does a link tagged around the wrong words.

Oversized images are re-encoded to shrink the delivered file only after you say yes, because that changes the file you publish.

Describe an image once. Wherever the same image appears in your other documents, Proof offers your approved description as a draft to review.

Silenced text is a new check: sentences printed on the page but marked as decoration, so no screen reader announces them. A remediation restores the readable passages automatically and lists the rest for a person to decide.

When a document has no usable title, Proof drafts one from page 1 for you to accept. And for many form documents, Focus Visible is now decided inside Proof instead of by a tab-through in Acrobat.

Set your organization’s brand colors once. Every color pick then offers them beside the replacements you chose before, each checked for contrast. A color change is never applied without a person.

On scanned pages, contrast is measured from the page image itself, and you are asked only where it falls short.

Reading order is numbered block by block. Draw the order directly on the page, Shift-drag to draw a table, and screen-reader users are pointed to the keyboard method.

The Library, the review queues and each document’s Steps and Page tabs work on a phone and a tablet: answer a picture, a title or a language question, approve and certify on a small screen. Drawing tools ask for a larger one.

Proof’s main pages reflow at 320 pixels wide with no sideways scrolling (WCAG 1.4.10 Reflow). The PDF page itself and wide tables scroll inside their own frame.

Every document now opens in the Steps view, which groups what is left by the decision you make, not by the rule that reported it. From Home, find any document across every project you can open; each project has its own address to bookmark and share.

“Have Ockem do this” sits on any document Proof couldn’t process or that was escalated. Our team prices the work in documents, and an administrator accepts or declines it in Proof.

Complex-file prices can be accepted several at once, or skipped. Administrators are emailed when a price is ready and before it expires, when the document balance runs low, and again at zero.

Each document shows its turnaround: ordinary documents are usually done within the hour, while scans and long files run in the background, typically the same day, without holding the rest up.

Every Proof email has one-click unsubscribe, and administrators choose the notifications new teammates start with. From any document, you can tell us when a fix didn’t work.