Accessibility Statement for Seesaw

Audience: Seesaw Users

Measures to support accessibility

Seesaw Learning Inc. takes the following measures to ensure the accessibility of Seesaw:

• Include accessibility as part of our mission statement.
• Include accessibility throughout our internal policies.
• Provide continual accessibility training for our staff.
• Employ formal accessibility quality assurance methods.
• Include accessibility in our engineering practices. 
• Include people with disabilities and learning differences in our design personas, user research, and product/curriculum validation process.

Conformance status

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) defines requirements for designers and developers to improve accessibility for people with disabilities. It defines three levels of conformance: Level A, Level AA, and Level AAA. Seesaw is partially conformant with WCAG 2.2 level AA. Partially conformant means that some parts of the content or application do not fully conform to the accessibility standard. Exceptions to conformance are detailed in the ‘Limitations and alternatives’ section. 

Contact Us for Feedback and Formal Complaints

Please contact us if you encounter accessibility barriers with the Seesaw app or Seesaw Curriculum Library content at accessibility@seesaw.me. We will work to resolve the issue or provide an accessible alternative. Our team will review and respond within 5 business days. 

Compatibility with browsers and assistive technology

Seesaw is designed to be compatible with the following browsers and assistive technologies:

• Modern web browsers: Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari
• VoiceOver on iOS devices running iOS 13 or newer
• TalkBack on Android devices running Android 7 and newer
• VoiceOver on MacOS
• JAWS and Narrator screen readers on Windows 10 or newer 

Technical specifications

Accessibility of Seesaw relies on the following technologies to work with the particular combination of web browser and any assistive technologies or plugins installed on your computer:

• HTML
• WAI-ARIA
• CSS
• JavaScript

These technologies are relied upon for conformance with the accessibility standards used.

Limitations and alternatives

Despite our best efforts to ensure accessibility of Seesaw, there may be some limitations which are described below, along with some possible alternative solutions and workarounds. If you observe an issue not listed below or have an alternative solution that is not mentioned, please let us know by emailing accessibility@seesaw.me so we can address it.

Known limitations for Seesaw:

• User-generated photos, videos, and voice recordings. Images uploaded by users might not have text alternatives, videos might not have closed captions, audio recordings might not have text alternatives because we cannot require young students, many of whom are not able to read or write yet, to provide specific alternative text for their photos, closed captions for their videos or text alternatives for their voice recordings. 
  1. Generic alt text is provided by Seesaw for all photos, videos, and voice recordings. 
  2. We offer options for adult users to add additional accessibility supports, like alt text, text captions, and closed captions. 
  3. The platform also supports adding multiple media types, so that users can upload content that is most accessible to their specific audience.
  4. Please review our Help Center documentation on how to add accessibility support or use our multimedia tools.
• Creative Canvas does not currently support iOS VoiceOver or Android TalkBack gestures. When VoiceOver or TalkBack is enabled, we recommend using an external keyboard as an alternative interaction method.

Assessment approach

Seesaw Learning Inc. assessed the accessibility of Seesaw by the following approaches:

• Manual, tool-assisted self-evaluation: A technical evaluation was conducted on the most frequently used pages and components of our application. Each element was evaluated against all relevant success criteria of WCAG 2.2 A/AA. Tools such as ARC Toolkit, Deque axe DevTools, WAVE Evaluation Tool, IBM Equal Access Accessibility Checker, Colour Contrast Analyser, and inspection tools like aViewer and Inspect.exe 
• Where appropriate/necessary, performed compatibility testing, using common assistive technologies such as JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, and TalkBack.
• Automated scans in our development process with axe DevTools Linter and axe DevTools Cypress 

Testing was conducted on the following platforms:

• Desktop: Windows 11, MacOS Sequoia 15.7.1
  • Browser: Chrome/JAWS, Firefox/NVDA, Chrome/Narrator, Safari/VoiceOver, Chrome/VoiceOver 
• Mobile: iOS 18.0.1 and iOS 17.6, Android 30 on the Seesaw app

Testing was carried out on all elements within the test sample. For each element, conformance with all relevant success criteria was identified, and any issues were reported.

Accessibility Conformance Report

Seesaw's Accessibility Conformance Report / VPAT is available for download in our trust center.

Formal approval of this accessibility statement

This Accessibility Statement is approved by:

Seesaw Learning Inc
Product and Curriculum Department
Lead Product Manager or Director of Curriculum

This statement was created on 23 January 2024 using the W3C Accessibility Statement Generator Tool and revised on 21 November 2025.