Accessibility Compliance

5 years experience in making learning material accessible for print-disabled students

Making study material accessible

Education is one of the most crucial leveling factors in society. There has been a tremendous rise in the consumption of electronic study material, be it via formal learning channels or online learning platforms.

In a post-COVID world, with the shutdown of schools and academic institutions globally, this learning delivery has moved online very rapidly. In a remote learning scenario, it is essential to address the specific challenges faced by print-disabled students.

codemantra’s accessibility platform can help K-12, school districts & universities to remediate their learning material for consumption by print-disabled students. codemantra’s accessibility platform is an award-winning cloud-based technology solution that automates 508 compliance on k-12 learning materials. This allows for improved access and consumption of content and mitigates learning loss for students and parents of all abilities (dyslexia, visual impairments, motor skill impairments). Our solution has been adopted by leading educational institutions and publishers, including; Cobb County School District, Henry County School District, Savvas Learning Company, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

K-12, school districts, colleges & universities need a solution partner who understands the business of remediating academic content and has the experience of delivering remediated content for students.

Audit and assessment of catalogues & exhibits
Assessment report generation
Impose structural tags to ensure intelligent content reflow
Create and edit alt text for visuals and graphical elements
Recompile and validate content against PDF/UA and WCAG 2.1 standards

Making documents accessible

With the increasing need to make content consumable by print-disabled students, it is necessary to make LMS content accessible.

codemantra’s accessibility platform makes course materials, including pdf, audio, video (CC), URL-links, etc., accessible for print-disabled students by conforming to AA standards of WCAG 2.1.

The accessibility platform has a suite of these independent modules that assist in accessibility assessment, remediation & quality control by a combination of an AI-powered engine and human intelligence.

accessibilityCheck

accessibilityFix

accessibilityReview

accessibilityInsight™

Impact on K-12, school districts & higher educational institutions

AI-powered accessibility compliance platform helps achieve remediation at scale.
Accessible digital content empowers people with disabilities by providing them equal opportunity to consume information and contribute to society
Accessible content also ranks higher on search engines and can be consumed by people with disabilities as well as their able-bodied counterparts
Immunity against digital accessibility lawsuits that come with heavy penalties and cause irreparable harm to brand reputation