Skip to content
Admins Teachers Students Instructional Resources

👋 We've put together a Getting Started Guide to help you navigate using NoRedInk!

2022 November: Accessibility Updates

On this page

November updates overview

NoRedInk's Accessibility Team has been hard at work improving the accessible experience for highlighting interfaces on NoRedInk! Read on to learn about our updates.

We welcome your feedback about our updates or any accessibility barriers you may run into!

Example highlighter interfaces

Some questions require a single color highlighter. Other questions allow students to use different color highlighters to mean different things. For example, a magenta highlight could mean "evidence" and a cyan highlighter could mean "reasoning."

Improved keyboard usability for highlighter interfaces

Support for high contrast mode in highlighter interfaces

  • In the past, highlighting was not visible when using device or browser high contrast mode. Now, our highlighters are visible in high contrast mode and reflect the "selected text" color in the high contrast mode theme.
  • Additionally, in high contrast mode, interfaces that use multiple highlighter colors show a text label next to the highlighter.
Sentences highlighted with the "Claim" and "Reasoning" highlighter show a text label with the highlight name in a different font before each highlighted sentence, in dark and light high contrast modes.

Improved screen reader accessibility for highlighter interfaces

  • Screen reader users will now hear text explaining when they are interacting with highlighted words.
    • For example, in a sentence  with the word "taught" highlighted, the highlighted text would be read by a screen reader as "[start highlight] taught [end highlight]".
  • When a highlight color represents something specific (such as using the color yellow to highlight a claim and magenta to highlight evidence), screen reader users will now hear text identifying the meaning of each highlight color (such as "claim" and "evidence").
    • For example, if the word "taught" in the sentence were highlighted by a blue highlight representing a verb, the highlighted text would be read by a screen reader as "[start verb highlight] taught [end highlight]".
A sentence with one highlight color with the word "taught" highlighted will be read by a screen reader as "[start highlight] taught [end highlight]".
A sentence with more than one highlight color will read the label for each highlighter color. For instance, a magenta highlighter that means "evidence" will be read by a screen reader as "[start evidence highlight]" and a cyan highlighter that means "reasoning" will be read by a screen reader as "[start reasoning highlight]".
Return to top
Was this article helpful?

Articles in this section