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Accessibility changelog

Accessibility work is continuous, not a one-off audit. This log records every accessibility-relevant change we ship and the WCAG 2.2 success criteria it touches, so our Accessibility Conformance Report (currently version 2.0, 2026-09-03) stays in step with the product.

September 2026

  1. Automated accessibility gate extended to authenticated flows (learner text and quiz lessons, learner dashboard, course builder, settings) with a keyboard-only smoke test; runs on every pull request and on main.

    • 2.1.1 Keyboard
    • 2.1.2 No Keyboard Trap
    • 2.4.3 Focus Order
    • 2.4.7 Focus Visible

  2. Accessibility Conformance Report is now generated from a single data file, with a per-criterion table, downloadable VPAT 2.5 (INT) PDF and this public changelog.

  3. Alternative formats — learners can download any lesson or course as a tagged PDF, HTML or Markdown.

    • 1.3.1 Info and Relationships
    • 1.4.4 Resize Text
    • 1.4.10 Reflow

  4. Caption review status and a publish gate that lets academies require human-reviewed captions on every video; builder suggestions for missing captions.

    • 1.2.2 Captions (Prerecorded)

  5. Conformance page — inline links are underlined so they are distinguishable without colour (axe link-in-text-block).

    • 1.4.1 Use of Color

  6. Audio-description tracks for video lessons — creators can upload a described-audio track that learners toggle in the player.

    • 1.2.3 Audio Description or Media Alternative (Prerecorded)
    • 1.2.5 Audio Description (Prerecorded)

  7. Sentence-level read-aloud control in the lesson player, user-initiated with pause and stop.

    • 1.4.2 Audio Control
    • 2.2.2 Pause, Stop, Hide

  8. Quiz engine — accessible timer (announced, extendable), plus short-answer, true/false and essay questions with programmatic labels and shuffling that preserves reading order.

    • 2.2.1 Timing Adjustable
    • 1.3.1 Info and Relationships
    • 3.3.2 Labels or Instructions
    • 4.1.3 Status Messages

  9. /for/higher-education page added to the automated axe suite.