Accessibility

The commitment

PDF Spree should be usable with a keyboard alone, with a screen reader, at 200% zoom, and by people who cannot distinguish certain colours. These are not extras added at the end — a document tool that only works with a mouse excludes people from a task they may have no other way to complete.

What has been verified

• Colour contrast. Every text and interface colour in the design system was checked against WCAG AA ratios in both light and dark themes, and the accent colour was chosen partly because a lighter shade failed. The measured figures are recorded in the source.
• Colour is never the only signal. Selected pages carry a check mark, not just a border; links in body text are underlined, not just coloured; errors state what went wrong in words.
• Semantic structure. Pages use real headings in order, real lists and real buttons, so a screen reader’s landmark and heading navigation works.
• Reserved space. Thumbnails and ad slots reserve their height before content loads, so the page does not jump under a pointer or a magnifier.

What has not been verified yet

Stated because you deserve to know before you rely on it:

• Screen reader testing. No tool has yet been walked through with VoiceOver, NVDA or JAWS end to end.
• Keyboard-only completion. Individual controls are focusable, but no tool has been completed start to finish without a pointer as a formal test.
• Reduced motion. Progress and transition animations do not yet respond to the operating system’s reduced-motion setting.
• Automated auditing. Lighthouse and axe checks are planned before public launch, not yet run against every page.

Known barriers

• Page reordering. Reordering uses move-earlier and move-later buttons rather than drag and drop, which is more accessible but slower for long documents. Drag will be added as an alternative, never as a replacement.
• Page thumbnails. Thumbnails are images of your document with no alternative text, because we cannot describe your file’s contents. Pages are labelled by number, which is what the controls act on.
• Scanned documents. A scanned PDF has no text layer, so it is inaccessible to a screen reader by nature. Our OCR tool exists partly to fix exactly this — running a scan through it makes the result readable.

Reporting a problem

Email accessibility@pdfspree.com. It helps to know the page, your browser and assistive technology, and what you expected to happen — but a one-line report is welcome too. Accessibility reports are treated as bugs, not as feature requests.

For anything else, see contact.