Teaching · Special Education

Check the equations, graphs and lab before students get them.

Work through one material at a time. The review shows the share of checks that meet and puts the fixes that would stop a student from starting at the top.

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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 review

One record per material. 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
A list of fixes by group for one material, with the ones that block a student marked to do first.
Who it is for
Math and science teachers, special education teachers, accessibility leads and teachers of students with visual impairments.
Format
Browser checklist. One saved record per material; printed with its summary or as a blank form; CSV; 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.
a line you can tell apart without color
Drawn for this page. Most STEM barriers sit in the pictures: equations saved as images, graphs with no description, results judged only by sight.

How to use it

  1. Start a review with a short code for the material.
  2. Note the formats students get and who it has to work for.
  3. Mark each check meets, needs work or not used.
  4. Fix what the summary lists first, then the rest.
  5. Print the review and keep it with the material’s source file.

Review a material

What the checks are for

Equations

An equation saved as a picture is silent to a screen reader and cannot be sent to a braille display. MathML, or LaTeX in a tool that renders it as MathML, can be read aloud, navigated term by term and turned into Nemeth or UEB braille.

Graphs

A useful description says what the graph shows (for example, the rate falls quickly then levels off) and gives the data when the detail matters. Color alone cannot carry meaning under WCAG 1.4.1; add labels, line styles or patterns.

Labs

Plan the other cue before the lab: a pH or temperature probe that reads aloud, a sound, or a change the student can feel. Students who are blind or have low vision can do the lab; the materials have to let them.

Sources

  1. W3C. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2, 2023: success criteria 1.1.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.5, 1.4.1 and 2.1.1.
  2. W3C. Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 4.0 and the MathML Core specification.
  3. Braille Authority of North America and the DIAGRAM Center. Guidelines and Standards for Tactile Graphics (2010), and DIAGRAM Center image description guidelines.
  4. National Center on Accessible Educational Materials (AEM Center at CAST): accessible STEM materials resources.

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