Our accessibility goal
Our goal is to make SpellingWords usable in ways consistent with WCAG 2.2 Level AA guidance. We continue to test and improve the site as its content, navigation, and practice tools evolve.
What the site currently supports
The site has been reviewed across its production page templates, global navigation, supporting pages, and interactive practice flow. Checks include keyboard operation, focus movement, responsive layouts, reduced-motion behavior, semantic document structure, accessible names, status announcements, and programmatic color-contrast testing.
- A skip link provides a direct route to the main content on every production page.
- Navigation, word-list controls, and spelling-practice controls can be operated with a keyboard; visible focus indicates the current control.
- The Grades and mobile navigation disclosures use buttons or native disclosure controls, expose their expanded state, and can be closed with Escape.
- Practice screens move focus to the next relevant input or button, and important errors and feedback use live status announcements.
- Headings, landmarks, lists, labels, and breadcrumb navigation provide page structure without depending on visual layout alone.
- Layouts adapt to narrow screens and enlarged content, while interactive targets in global navigation and core practice controls are sized for touch.
- Site animation and transition duration is minimized when the device requests reduced motion.
- Correct and incorrect practice feedback uses text and symbols as well as color.
Current limitations and dependencies
- Interactive spelling practice depends on the browser's speech-synthesis support and the voices installed or provided by the device. Voice quality, pronunciation, and whether a voice is processed locally can vary by browser and operating system.
- Learners can start and repeat spoken prompts, but the current spelling-test experience requires audible speech and does not provide a fully equivalent text-only prompt. The curriculum and Skill reference pages remain available without audio.
- Accessibility behavior can vary across browsers, devices, assistive technologies, zoom settings, and combinations of those technologies.
How accessibility work continues
New navigation, page templates, and practice interactions should be checked with keyboard input, narrow and enlarged layouts, reduced motion, accessible-name inspection, and automated tests where appropriate before release. Material known limitations should be documented on this page as they are identified.
Accessibility needs can overlap with individual learning needs, but they are not the same thing. Parents and educators should use their knowledge of a child when choosing a grade, word set, device, and amount of practice.