Our commitment
ML4Schools is used by whole classes. That means it has to work for every student in the room, including students who use a screen reader, navigate by keyboard, need larger text or higher contrast, or find dense interfaces hard to process.
Australian schools have obligations to students with disability under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (Cth) and the Disability Standards for Education 2005. A tool a school puts in front of a class has to help it meet those obligations. We treat accessibility as a requirement of the product, at the same level as privacy and security, which is also how education departments say it should be treated in procurement.
The standard we work to
- WCAG 2.2 Level AA, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, at the level Australian government and education bodies commonly require.
- AS EN 301 549, the Australian adoption of the international ICT accessibility standard, which is the reference most education-department procurement processes use.
Where we are today
We have not yet completed an independent accessibility audit, and we do not claim full WCAG 2.2 Level AA conformance. We would rather tell you that plainly than publish a conformance claim we haven't tested.
What we can tell you accurately today:
- Our public website is built as plain semantic HTML: real headings, real links, real text. It contains no images of text, so content scales cleanly when a reader zooms or enlarges type, and nothing depends on an image loading.
- Pages declare their language and use standard document structure, so screen readers and reader modes can navigate them.
- We are working through a self-assessment of the platform against WCAG 2.2 Level AA. It is not finished.
- The interactive machine-learning activities are the most complex part of the platform to make accessible, and are the part we have not yet independently tested. If accessibility in those activities is decisive for your school, talk to us before you buy and we will tell you what we know and what we don't.
What we're doing about it
- Completing the self-assessment against WCAG 2.2 Level AA across the website and the platform.
- Fixing what that assessment finds, prioritising anything that blocks a student from completing a lesson.
- Commissioning an independent review before we publish any formal conformance report, and publishing the result, including what still doesn't conform.
- Treating accessibility barriers reported by schools as product defects rather than feature requests.
Telling us about a barrier
If something on ML4Schools is difficult or impossible for a student or teacher to use, please tell us. Reports from real classrooms are worth more to us than any checklist.
Email [email protected] (Email us) with "Accessibility" in the subject line. It helps if you can tell us the page or activity, what the student was trying to do, and what assistive technology or setting they were using, but tell us even if you can't.
We will acknowledge accessibility reports within 5 business days and tell you what we intend to do and roughly when.
Alternative formats
If you need any of our documents in a different format, whether this statement, the Privacy Policy, the parent information sheet or procurement material, ask us at [email protected] (Email us) and we will provide one.
For schools and procurement teams
If your procurement process requires accessibility evidence, contact us at [email protected] (Email us). We can share the current state of our self-assessment, our position against AS EN 301 549, and the specific areas we know are unfinished. We do not currently hold a third-party accessibility conformance report; when we do, it will be published here.
Contact
Ninnovate Pty Ltd (ABN 40 693 981 270) · [email protected] (Email us)
This statement is reviewed at least annually, and whenever a significant change to the platform affects accessibility. Read together with our Privacy Policy, Terms of Use and Security & Trust page.