Accessibility
Last updated October 1, 2026
Clear30 is committed to making our education program usable by everyone, including students, faculty, and staff with disabilities. We design the program to meet WCAG 2.0 Level AA and the Revised Section 508 standards, and we review it on an ongoing basis as the product evolves.
What we've built in
- Every screen of the student program is fully operable by keyboard, with no keyboard traps.
- Interactive elements use standard names, roles, and states so screen readers describe them accurately.
- Closed captions are on by default for every instructional video and every testimonial video.
- Motion and animation respect your device's reduced motion setting.
- Text and interface colors meet minimum contrast requirements.
- A “Skip to main content” link on every page, landmark regions, and a clear heading structure make it easy to navigate directly to page content.
Known limitations
On some questions, choosing an answer moves you straight to the next question. The program also moves on by itself in three places: about 1 second after a video ends, about 2 seconds after you finish a module, and about 2.6 seconds after a short transition screen in the mental health questions. If your device's reduced motion setting is on, that transition screen waits for you to press Continue instead. We do this on purpose so the program keeps its pace, but it does mean the screen changes without you asking it to. Everywhere else you move on with a Continue button, and no screen gives you a deadline to read or answer.
A small number of elements pick up a partner school's own brand color, so their contrast depends on the color that school has chosen.
We test with automated scanning, manual review of every interactive component, text resize and reflow at 200% and 400% zoom, measured contrast on every color pair used for interactive text, and a screen reader pass using VoiceOver. In August 2026 a partner university's accessibility office also evaluated the student flow independently. We fixed 16 of their 18 findings. Of the other two, we removed the reading timer but kept the automatic advance after an answer, and we could not reproduce the last one. In September 2026 our own review found more gaps, which we fixed, and the three automatic advances above, which we kept. The automatic advances are disclosed here and in our Accessibility Conformance Report. We're continuing to expand our testing to other assistive technologies.
Let us know
If you run into a barrier anywhere in the program, or you need temporary alternative access while we fix something, reach out and we'll help.
thatcher@clear30.org