Accessibility & language access
Built so every reader is included — and every family’s language is reached.
Federal law already requires a school to be usable by people with disabilities and to reach families who speak another language at home. Most school software treats both as a paid add-on. We build them in, and here is our promise: we will never charge you extra to be accessible, multilingual, safe, or compliant. This page is plain about what is accessible right now and what is still coming.
This answers the federal accessibility rule (ADA Title II) and the federal language-access rule (Title VI). It describes what the product does, not a regulator’s certification.
Our promise
The things the law requires are never behind a price
Being accessible, reaching a family in its own language, a way to report a safety concern, and a parent’s right to see their own child’s record are the things the law requires — so they are things we will never sell you back. This is our promise: these lanes will never sit behind a price, a higher tier, an unpaid invoice, or a billing suspension. We are building that into the product so it can’t be undone by accident, with an automated test that fails our build if any required lane is ever placed behind a paid gate. Today it is our commitment and the way we engineer the platform — we would rather tell you exactly where the work stands than dress a promise up as a finished feature.
Accessible reading and design, live today
These are built and running today — not on a roadmap.
Read it on any device
Online editions work with screen readers, reflow the text to any phone, and can be run entirely by keyboard — a real accessible reader, not a locked flip-book. Shipped
Screen-reader-friendly PDF export
Export a PDF with a proper heading structure, a navigable reading order, and alt text on images — no extra software and no extra license. Shipped
A design canvas you can run by keyboard
Move, resize, rotate, group, copy, paste, and undo all work by keyboard, with a visible focus outline and no keyboard traps. Shipped
Contrast and alt text, checked automatically
An automated test checks that every color pairing is readable and that every content image carries alt text or is marked decorative. There is a text-only reading mode and a high-contrast download theme too. Shipped
Set it once, served everywhere
A family sets its home language and any accessibility needs one time, on the student record, and every screen reads that profile and adapts — the chrome, the messages, the forms, and the reading experience. That set-it-once foundation is shipped today; it is the base the rest of the accessibility and language work below plugs into. Each school also sets its main language — English or French today, with a French-first setting for Quebec. Family profile & per-school language shipped
Coming — the work we will not call shipped until it is
These are designed and being built. We name them as coming, never as available, so you always know what runs today.
A cannot-publish-broken gate
The publish button blocks a flyer, page, or newsletter that fails accessibility, with a plain-words fix list — making non-compliant content impossible to publish rather than merely flagged. Coming
Read-aloud in the family’s language
A play button reads any message, form, or report out loud, using the correct name spellings from the roster. It depends on a text-to-speech model running on our own private computers, so no student data ever leaves the school. Coming
Private translation that never leaves the school
Translate messages, forms, and pages into a family’s language on our own private computers, so no student or parent information is sent to an outside translation cloud — both a language-access win and a privacy advantage other tools cannot match. Coming
Translated required notices
The legally required notices to families with limited English — special-education and discipline notices and the like — produced in the family’s language, with a human-review step before anything high-stakes goes out. Coming
Photo descriptions that name the real person
A yearbook or gallery photo gets a description that says the real name and context instead of “a child” — drafted privately, confirmed by a human, and spoken only when permission allows. Coming
Braille and large-print editions
A Braille companion and a large-print edition of the yearbook, exported to the standard accessible-textbook format, so a student who needs one gets a real keepsake too. Coming
We’re honest about what’s shipped
Accessible online editions, screen-reader-friendly PDF export, a keyboard-run design canvas, automated contrast and alt-text checks, the set-it-once family profile, the per-school main language, and the written must-stay-free promise are live today. The cannot-publish-broken accessibility gate, read-aloud, private in-school translation, translated required notices, photo descriptions that name real people, and Braille and large-print editions are coming — we will not call them shipped until they are. This describes what the platform does; it is not a regulator’s certification.