Accessibility

What works, and what does not

Writeboard should be usable by every tutor, student and parent. Most of it is. The whiteboard itself is a drawing surface and does not work with a screen reader, and this page says so plainly, with what a tutor can use instead.

Updated 12 October 2026. Every screen shown is the real product.

What we test

Every page a tutor, a student or a parent reaches is checked by automated tests against the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at level AA, on every change we make, including the pages a child sees when they set up their sign-in and the page a parent opens from their link. The tests fail on any serious problem: text too faint to read, a control with no name, something too small to tap.

Beyond that: every page names itself in the browser tab, so a screen reader hears where it is; a question or a sheet that opens takes the keyboard and gives it back when it closes; and everything around the board can be used with a keyboard alone.

What we have not done yet is test with a person using a screen reader from start to finish. That comes next, on an iPad with VoiceOver, and this page will say what we found.

What does not work

The whiteboard. The board is a picture that a tutor and a student draw on together. A screen reader cannot read the handwriting, the typed text boxes or the pages on it, and it cannot draw. A book saved as a PDF keeps each page as a picture, so the text in it cannot be read aloud either.

What does

Signing in, a student's shelf (their books, homework and files), a parent's page, progress reports, the notes a tutor writes after a lesson, the calendar and Settings are ordinary web pages, built to be read by a screen reader and used with a keyboard.

What a tutor can do instead

For a student who uses a screen reader, put worksheets on their shelf as files they can open with their own tools, write the lesson's main points as the note after the lesson (it reaches the student's page, and the parent by email if they want it), and use progress reports for anything that needs to be kept. The lesson itself is best spoken, with the board as the tutor's own notes.

Tell us

If something does not work for you, write to hello@writeboard.uk and say what you were trying to do and what you use (a screen reader, magnification, a keyboard, switch access). We reply within two working days, and anything we can fix around the board, we fix.