About these updates
NoRedInk's Accessibility Team is excited to present our first batch of high-impact updates for students and teachers with disabilities, just in time for the back-to-school season! These updates follow web accessibility standards and allow students to work more independently, which we hope improves students' confidence in their command of the written word.
While we have an official VPAT/Accessibility Conformance Report posted on our main accessibility page, we only update the official report periodically. In the meantime, we've provided a list of updates on this page.
We welcome your feedback about our updates or any accessibility barriers you may run into!
Screen reader support
- All lessons on NoRedInk can be read by screen readers.
- Note that "lessons" (indicated in NoRedInk's Assignment Library by the paper icon) are the guidance we provide students as they work on exercises, not the actual exercises/questions themselves.
- Note that many of our guided tutorials (indicated in NoRedInk's Assignment Library by the footprints icon) may not be fully screen reader accessible.
- The student-facing learning pathway page (the list of topics students see before they work on independent or assigned practice) is fully keyboard accessible, screen reader accessible, and visually accessible.
- We updated the design, layout, and coding for non-practice assignment results pages to greatly improve usability and comprehension for screenreader users and colorblind users.
- Much of the student site is screen reader accessible, with more improvements on the way.
Keyboard/non-mouse control support
- The student-facing part of NoRedInk is fully keyboard accessible. Note that keyboard accessibility makes our site operable by screen readers and other assistive technology, not just keyboards. Read more about our keyboard accessibility here.
- Much of the teacher-facing part of NoRedInk is keyboard accessible.
- A highly visible, candy-red focus ring is shown on all interactive items when they receive focus from a keyboard or other non-touch, non-mouse input. The focus ring allows students and teachers to see what their keyboard or assistive technology is “hovered” on before they interact with the item.
- We added a "Skip to content" link on most pages to help non-mouse/non-touch users navigate past repetitive navigation on the site and get to the main content of a page more quickly.
Visual support (magnification/screen zoom/contrast/color)
- We made many improvements to contrast and visibility of items across the site.
- Most of our pages are fully responsive, so students who need to enlarge content or who need to use content on smaller screens should be able to work more effectively.
- We updated the design, layout, and coding for non-practice assignment results pages to greatly improve usability and comprehension for screenreader users and colorblind users.
- A highly visible, candy-red focus ring is shown on all interactive items when they receive focus from a keyboard or other non-touch, non-mouse input. The focus ring allows students and teachers to see what their keyboard or assistive technology is “hovered” on before they interact with the item.
Text-to-speech feature support
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Image-formatted lessons on NoRedInk can be read by NoRedInk's built-in text-to-speech feature.
- Note that "lessons" (indicated in NoRedInk's Assignment Library by the paper icon) are the guidance we provide students as they work on exercises, not the actual exercises/questions themselves.
- Note that HTML-formatted lessons cannot yet be read by our text-to-speech feature.
- Note that many of our guided tutorials (indicated in NoRedInk's Assignment Library by the footprints icon) may not be able to be read by our text-to-speech feature.
