Find issues that can make your PDFs difficult for people with disabilities to read or use, including missing image descriptions and problems with headings. See affected content highlighted on the page, review issues by severity, and get instructions on how to fix them. The checker also flags what needs human review. Upload PDFs up to 50 MB or paste a public link. Completely free, with no sign-up, no email required, and no files stored. Checks against WCAG 2.1 AA and PDF/UA.
Happy to share PDF Accessibility Checker by WebYes with you!
Checking a PDF for accessibility can leave you wondering what the errors mean, where they are, and how to fix them. We built this tool to help you work through those questions, with detailed results and practical guidance available for free.
Upload a PDF or paste a public link, and you can:
Prioritize the fixes: Review issues by severity to decide what needs attention first.
Locate problems without searching through pages: Select a finding to see the affected content highlighted in your PDF.
Understand what to change: Get explanations and fix instructions you can follow in your document editor.
Work through the human checks: Review flagged findings and follow instructions for recommended manual checks.
Who is it for?
Content and marketing teams: Check reports, brochures, and guides before publishing or sharing them.
Designers and document creators: Check an exported PDF, make changes in your source file, and scan the updated version.
Web teams and agencies: Paste links to published PDFs to identify accessibility issues and plan the fixes.
It supports PDFs up to 50 MB, with no software to install, no account to create, and no email required. Your PDF is not stored.
Have a document you’re working on? Give it a try and tell us how it fits into your workflow.
We’d love to hear what helped, what felt confusing, and what you’d like to see next. We’ll be here in the comments to answer questions and clarify any findings or instructions you’re unsure about.
The highlighted finding on the page is the part that would actually change how I use a checker. A severity list alone usually gets skimmed, but seeing the exact content in context makes it clear what to fix first. For exported docs, the tricky part is usually reading order and tagged structure, not just missing alt text — does the guidance distinguish those cases, or treat them the same way?
A PDF can look perfectly readable and still be difficult to navigate with assistive technology. Happy to see more attention going into this. Congrats, WebYes team!
Highlighting the issue directly on the page is a great touch. An error report is much easier to act on when you can see exactly what it’s referring to. Congrats on the launch!
Hey Product Hunt 👋 I’m Lukhman, the designer on this.
Most PDF checkers I tried while researching gave you a long list of rule IDs and left you to work out where each problem was and what to do about it. We designed the results screen around three questions anyone fixing a document has:
What should I fix first? Where is the problem? How do I fix it? I’d love feedback on the experience. Was anything in the results confusing, or was something missing that would help you fix a document? I’ll be here all day 🙌
Nice work! Accessibility checks usually just dump a list of errors, so seeing them marked on the page is a real upgrade. Does it catch scanned PDFs too?
A list of human checks is useful alongside the automatic findings. An image can have alt text and still explain very little.
We built this tool after seeing the same thing again and again. Teams put real effort into making their websites accessible, and then the PDFs linked from those sites (annual reports, brochures, application forms, policy documents) quietly shut people out. Someone using a screen reader opens one and gets lost in an unstructured jumble of text. Checking PDFs properly has usually meant expensive software or hours of manual work, so most teams never get around to it.
PDF Accessibility Checker removes that barrier. It's completely free, with no sign-up and no email required, and your PDF isn't stored. Just upload a file or paste a public link, right in your browser. It runs every machine-verifiable check in WCAG (Level A and AA) and PDF/UA (ISO 14289). That covers structure (reading order, heading nesting, lists and table headers), content (image alt text, document language, title, bookmarks, font embedding) and interaction (text contrast, form field labels, link descriptions and tab order).
What I love most is how easy the results are to act on. Issues are ranked from critical to minor, and you can filter by severity to focus on what matters first. Click any issue and it takes you straight to the problem, highlighted on your PDF. Each finding comes with clear guidance tied to the exact WCAG or PDF/UA rule it relates to. Content editors, marketers, developers and accessibility specialists can all understand it and know what to do next.
If you publish PDFs on your website, give it a try with one of your own documents. It's a quick, honest way to see whether your PDFs are as accessible as the rest of your site, and a helpful step towards ADA and Section 508 readiness. We'd genuinely love your feedback!
About PDF Accessibility Checker by WebYes on Product Hunt
“Find PDF accessibility issues for free, with fix guidance”
PDF Accessibility Checker by WebYes launched on Product Hunt on October 26th, 2026 and earned 116 upvotes and 18 comments, placing #6 on the daily leaderboard. Find issues that can make your PDFs difficult for people with disabilities to read or use, including missing image descriptions and problems with headings. See affected content highlighted on the page, review issues by severity, and get instructions on how to fix them. The checker also flags what needs human review. Upload PDFs up to 50 MB or paste a public link. Completely free, with no sign-up, no email required, and no files stored. Checks against WCAG 2.1 AA and PDF/UA.
PDF Accessibility Checker by WebYes was featured in Productivity (664k followers), Developer Tools (521.9k followers) and Inclusivity (557 followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 262.6k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted PDF Accessibility Checker by WebYes?
PDF Accessibility Checker by WebYes was hunted by Anjaly Rose. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Hey Product Hunt! 👋
Happy to share PDF Accessibility Checker by WebYes with you!
Checking a PDF for accessibility can leave you wondering what the errors mean, where they are, and how to fix them. We built this tool to help you work through those questions, with detailed results and practical guidance available for free.
Upload a PDF or paste a public link, and you can:
Prioritize the fixes: Review issues by severity to decide what needs attention first.
Locate problems without searching through pages: Select a finding to see the affected content highlighted in your PDF.
Understand what to change: Get explanations and fix instructions you can follow in your document editor.
Work through the human checks: Review flagged findings and follow instructions for recommended manual checks.
Who is it for?
Content and marketing teams: Check reports, brochures, and guides before publishing or sharing them.
Designers and document creators: Check an exported PDF, make changes in your source file, and scan the updated version.
Web teams and agencies: Paste links to published PDFs to identify accessibility issues and plan the fixes.
It supports PDFs up to 50 MB, with no software to install, no account to create, and no email required. Your PDF is not stored.
Have a document you’re working on? Give it a try and tell us how it fits into your workflow.
We’d love to hear what helped, what felt confusing, and what you’d like to see next. We’ll be here in the comments to answer questions and clarify any findings or instructions you’re unsure about.