Teaching · Special Education

Listen to the page before you publish the change.

Run the ten checks with a screen reader on, and mark each one. The checklist lists failures with their WCAG criterion and a first fix, and tells you whether the change is ready.

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Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Or get it in the Special Education toolkit, $99 for 100 items.

The regression check

One check per page and date. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · Special Education$5 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
Passes and failures, each failure with its WCAG 2.2 criterion and a first fix, the checks not yet run and a publish verdict.
Who it is for
Teachers, instructional designers, school web editors and assistive technology specialists who publish digital materials.
Format
Browser checklist. One saved check per page and date; printed with the verdict or as a blank checklist; CSV across pages; export and import a file.
Access
$5 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Special Education toolkit ($99) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The Special Education space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
listen to the page after every change
Drawn for this page. A page that worked last month can break with one new button; listening is how you find out.

How to use it

  1. Start a check with a code for the page and the date.
  2. Note what changed and which screen reader you are using.
  3. Work through the ten checks with the screen reader running.
  4. Fix the failures, then copy the check to a new date and rerun the failed checks.
  5. Run an automated checker as well; it finds different problems.

Start a check

What the checks cover

Why a regression check

Accessibility breaks quietly. A new button without a name or a result that appears without an announcement can undo a page that passed before. Ten quick checks after each change catch most of it.

The standard

The checks map to WCAG 2.2 Level A and AA criteria. A 2024 Justice Department rule under ADA Title II made WCAG 2.1 AA the standard for the web content and apps of state and local governments, including public schools.

What this is not

A full accessibility audit. It covers what a screen reader user meets first.

Sources

  1. W3C (2023). Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2, W3C Recommendation: success criteria 1.1.1, 1.3.1, 2.4.1–2.4.4, 3.3.1, 3.3.2, 4.1.2, 4.1.3.
  2. U.S. Department of Justice (2024). Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability; Accessibility of Web Information and Services of State and Local Government Entities, 28 CFR part 35, subpart H.
  3. WebAIM, Testing with screen readers: questions and answers, and the Screen Reader User Survey.
  4. W3C Web Accessibility Initiative, Easy Checks: A First Review of Web Accessibility.

The example page is made up. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.