# Editorial policy and sources
URL: https://pandus.online/en/editorial-policy
Updated: 2026-10-14

How the Pandus editorial team writes and checks guides about WCAG and accessibility laws: sources, update dates, corrections and the use of AI writing tools.

Our guides explain WCAG, accessibility laws such as the European Accessibility Act, and how to fix common problems. People make decisions based on them, so this page explains how they are written, which sources we rely on and what happens when we get something wrong. The guides are written by the **Pandus editorial team**.

## What our guides are and are not

- They explain rules and laws in plain language for business owners, agencies and developers.
- They are **not legal advice**. Whether a law applies to a business, and what it must do, depends on its situation; for a binding answer ask a lawyer or the competent authority.
- Our product is an **automated check, not a full audit**. Guides never promise conformance with a law, complete accessibility or protection from lawsuits.

## Sources we rely on

We base statements of fact on primary sources and link them in the text:

- **Laws and official texts:** EUR-Lex for EU directives (for example Directive (EU) 2019/882, the European Accessibility Act), the official law portals of the member states, ADA.gov and Section508.gov for the United States.
- **Standards:** the W3C texts of WCAG 2.1 and 2.2 with their Understanding documents, and ETSI EN 301 549.
- **Tools and rules:** the documentation of axe-core by Deque, the open-source engine our checks use.
- **Prices and features of other products:** the vendor's own public pages, checked on the date shown.

Blogs and news articles may help us find a topic, but we do not state their claims as facts unless an official source confirms them; when something is uncertain or disputed, the guide says so. Figures in our [rankings](https://pandus.online/en/rankings) come from our own automated checks, with the method and date on each ranking.

## How a guide is written and checked

1. We collect the primary sources for the topic and note what each one says.
2. We usually write the guide in English and translate it into Ukrainian, German, Polish, Czech, Romanian and Russian.
3. We check every statement of fact, every date and every amount against the source before publishing, and check that the guide makes no promises our product does not keep.
4. Each guide shows the date of its last update. We review guides when a law, a standard or a deadline changes, and change the date only when the content changes.

## Use of AI tools

We use AI writing assistants to draft and translate texts from our research notes and the sources above. A person then checks the facts against the sources and edits the text before it is published. AI does not decide what a guide says about the law, and we do not publish text that nobody has checked.

Our product itself does not use AI: checks run on axe-core, and reports are built from rule explanations written in advance. Where a rule explanation is a machine translation that a native speaker has not reviewed yet, the report says so.

## Independence

- Pandus sells automated accessibility monitoring. When a guide compares tools, including ours, it uses public information and says what each one does and does not do.
- We do not accept payment for mentions, and our guides contain no affiliate links.

## Corrections

Found a mistake, an outdated date or a broken source? Write to us through the [contact page](https://pandus.online/en/contact) and name the page. We check every report against the source. When a correction changes the meaning of a guide, we fix it and update its date.

## Related

- [About Pandus](https://pandus.online/en/about)
- [Glossary of accessibility terms](https://pandus.online/en/accessibility-glossary)
- [Who the European Accessibility Act applies to](https://pandus.online/en/who-does-the-eaa-apply-to)