Writable strives to not simply comply with accessibility standards but to build features and tools that support students with a variety of needs, learning styles, and abilities.
In addition to being being WCAG 2.1 AA compliant, Writable offers the following features that help support a wide variety of students:
Text to Speech
This allows students to have the prompt, reading passage, rubric, or their own writing read aloud to them. This feature can be enabled by a teacher at an assignment or individual level.
Speech to Text
This allows students to speak their answers and have the writing transcribe from voice into text in the Writable text editor. This feature can be configured once on the student’s browser or computer. Additionally, Writable allows a student to embed a video recording, audio recording, or image in place of a written submission.
GrammarAid gives on-demand grammar and style suggestions to students, allowing them to edit their writing without waiting for teacher feedback. This feature can be enabled by teachers at the assignment or individual level.
Students can highlight and annotate the text as they read, and teachers can print most reading passages to accommodate students who prefer a paper copy. [Tip: look for the printer icon in the top right corner of most reading passages!]
Differentiated Assignments
Writable supports a wide range of scaffolding throughout the program, including sentence starters, fill-in-the-blank responses, graphic organizers, and more. Teachers can assign differentiated assignments from the Writable collection or use the Analyze the Text differentiated collection if they own HMH Into Literature.
Multilingual Supports
Multilingual learners are supported with special characters anytime they type, the ability to record a voice or video response on any assignment, and the ability to use a Spanish rubric or assignment when teachers assign one. AI suggested comments from teachers also appear in Spanish when students write in Spanish. Finally, Spanish speakers can change their navigation and interface into Spanish, as desired.
Interested in using an accessibility support from Google Docs inside Writable? Writable allows teachers to embed a Google Doc inside a Writable assignment, which allows students to use additional Google supports they may be accustomed to inside Writable.
Have a question or suggestion for an accessible feature in Writable? Please email us at support@writable.com.