Access audit report app for DDA and AS 1428.1 audits
An access audit walks the path of travel a person using a wheelchair, a walking frame or a cane would take — from the allotment boundary and the accessible car space through the principal entrance, lifts and sanitary facilities — and measures each element against AS 1428.1. Building owners commission it to understand their exposure under the Disability Discrimination Act and to plan upgrades. The report is only useful if every non-compliance names the clause, the measurement and a practical fix.
Built for building owners running teams of roughly 3–50 inspectors.
Sample Access audit report
An illustrative excerpt. The site, readings and findings are fictional; the layout is yours to set.
Access audit report
Path of travel 2 — Principal entrance to Level 1 accessible WC
- Building
- Fictional Business Centre, 22 Sample Road
- Audit basis
- AS 1428.1-2009; Premises Standards 2010
- Audit date
- 6 May 2026
| Element | Measured | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Entrance ramp gradient | 1:16 over 7.2 m | Result: Non-compliant |
| Ramp handrails | Both sides, 1000 mm high, extend 300 mm at landing | Result: Pass |
| Entrance door clear opening | 870 mm | Result: Pass |
| Tactile ground surface indicators at ramp head | Not installed | Result: Non-compliant |
| Accessible WC circulation space | Door swing encroaches by 180 mm | Result: Review |
Fields captured on site
Your firm builds the form in-app, so these are a starting point rather than a fixed schema. Every field is captured on the device, with or without signal, and lands in the access audit report where your template puts it.
Per path of travel
- Start and end point
- Ramps, steps and kerb ramps encountered
- Gradients and crossfalls measured
- Continuous accessible path (yes / no)
Per element
- Element type (door, ramp, WC, lift, signage)
- Measurements taken
- AS 1428.1 clause tested
- Compliance result
- Photo with dimension annotation
Recommendations
- Linked non-compliance
- Proposed works
- Priority
- Indicative cost band
Standards the report works to
- AS 1428.1-2009Design for access and mobility — General requirements for access — New building work
- Every measured element is tested against its clause: ramps, doorways, circulation spaces, sanitary facilities.
- Disability (Access to Premises — Buildings) Standards 2010Premises Standards made under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992
- Sets when new work and affected parts of an existing building must meet the access requirements.
- AS/NZS 1428.4.1Design for access and mobility — Means to assist the orientation of people with vision impairment — Tactile ground surface indicators
- The basis for findings about missing or incorrectly laid tactile indicators.
Load the standards you hold into your reference library and the drafted prose is written against them rather than against a general model.
How the access audit report gets built
Capture it once, offline
Your firm builds the accessibility DDA audit form in-app — 25 field types, nesting repeatable groups, compound AND/OR visibility rules, reusable modules and calculated fields. Field capture works with no signal: jobs, forms, photos, notes and audio all queue in an idempotent outbox that only clears once the server confirms receipt.
Link it to your buildings, levels and tenancies
Enter buildings, levels and tenancies once, as a register. Every one of your elements, defects and cost lines then points at a stored row rather than a name somebody typed — and the links survive a disconnected device.
Render your own template
The access audit report renders into the Word template you already use — your letterhead, your section order, your clause library — with conditionals, loops over repeats, composable sub-templates and photo grids.
Reviewed before it leaves
You write the review framework: a checklist of what a access audit report must contain, plus the prose standards you would mark a junior against. Link it to a report template and it runs every time that template renders. Each finding comes back graded info, minor or major, quoting the sentence at fault, and a person accepts or dismisses every one.
Because the structured submission behind the report is held too, the review is a comparison rather than a proofread: The narrative calls the roof "fair"; the element register grades it C with a twelve-month cost line against it.
Checks a commercial property framework usually carries
- Every graded defect carries a cost band and a priority
- The make-good schedule and the narrative describe the same condition
- Access and DDA non-compliances cite the clause they fail
- Every photo referenced in the text exists and is captioned
Questions
- Can the form record the clause each non-compliance fails?
- Yes. Each element carries a clause field and per-option report text, so choosing "1:16 ramp, non-compliant" can write the full sentence citing the clause into the report rather than leaving the auditor to type it.
- Can one recommendation fix several non-compliances?
- Yes. Recommendations link to findings many-to-many, so a relocated entrance can close out the ramp, the tactile and the door finding at once and the report says so.
- Does the report separate path-of-travel issues from individual elements?
- The form is grouped by path of travel with elements nested inside, and your template decides whether the report reads path by path or as a single schedule of non-compliances.
What this is not
Worth knowing before you book a demo, so neither of us wastes the half hour.
- Not field-service dispatch. No timesheets, no parts, no inventory. Scheduling exists to get an inspector to a site.
- No signature capture. If your deliverable has to carry a signed sign-off on the artefact itself, this is not the tool yet.
- Field capture is what works offline — jobs, forms, photos, notes and audio. Reports, chat, scheduling and the inbox need a connection.
- No client portal. Reports go out as a file or a password-protected link.
Other commercial property work we cover
- Building handover auditsHandover documentation pack
- Car park condition auditsCar park audit report
- Commercial entry exit conditionLease condition report
- Commercial make-good assessmentsMake-good scope report
- Commercial waste auditsWaste stream report
- Cooling tower inspectionsTower registration report
- Essential safety measures assessmentsAnnual ESM statement
- Fire door inspectionsFire door register
Other disciplines
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