Last updated: July 3, 2025
At Boddle Learning, we believe every child deserves a joyful, engaging, and effective learning experience. We are committed to making our platform accessible to as many students, teachers, and caregivers as possible through thoughtful design, customizable features, and alignment with recognized accessibility standards.
We are actively working toward conformance with WCAG 2.1 Level AA guidelines established by the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative.
Current Accessibility Features
- Text‑to‑Speech Read‑Aloud: Every question, instruction, and feedback message inside the game can be rendered as high‑quality synthesized speech at the click of a button. This supports learners who have dyslexia, low vision, or emerging reading skills, and it can be paired with an on‑screen sketch tool that students can use to follow along.
- Flexible Assignment Scheduling: Teachers can schedule activities in advance or adjust start and due times, ideal for students who need extended time accommodations, differentiated pacing, or make‑up work after absences. Assignments can also be paused or reopened without deleting student progress.
- Adaptive Learning Paths: Boddle’s algorithm continuously analyzes performance and adjusts difficulty up or down in real time. A fourth‑grade class might include students working at a first‑ or second‑grade skill level; the game quietly delivers the right content to each child, preventing embarrassment and reducing math anxiety. Teachers can also manually assign out‑of‑grade materials to individual learners or groups.
- Spanish‑Language Support: All core math content is available in Spanish, giving English learners (ELL) immediate access to instructions, questions, and feedback in their primary language. The read‑aloud feature also supports Spanish narration, ensuring parity between text and audio.
- Consistent Navigation & Layout: The teacher portal and game follow a predictable structure, keeping recurring menus, action buttons, and progress indicators in the same location across pages. This allows teachers and students who use spatial memory or visual cues in order to quickly locate repeated content.
Game Accessibility Tags (Accessible Games Initiative)
Boddle follows the Accessible Games Initiative tagging system to make sure our game client is playable with a variety of devices and settings. We currently meet—or partially meet—the following tags:
Input Features
- Playable with Mouse Only – All core actions can be completed with a two‑button mouse or any adaptive pointing device; no secondary hardware is required.
- Playable with Touch Only – Both the mobile and web versions support full play via touchscreen gestures; physical buttons are optional.
- Playable without Rapid Button Presses – We avoid quick‑time events and rapid‑fire tapping sequences.
- Playable without Motion Controls – You can complete the game without moving the device.
- Playable without Touch Controls – On web, keyboard and mouse replicate every action so players who can’t use touchscreens are not blocked.
Visual Features
- Large & Clear Subtitles – All videos are subtitled, all character dialog is displayed on screen.
- Color‑Independent Cues – Critical game content is conveyed through shape, patterns, icons, or audio in addition to color, ensuring information is never communicated by color alone.
Auditory Features
- Mono Sound – All audio is currently mixed to mono, so critical cues reach both ears equally.
- Multiple Volume Controls – Separate sliders allow users adjust music and sound‑effect volumes independently.
We will assess additional accessibility tags as part of our 2025‑2026 accessibility roadmap.
Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT)
We have completed an internal accessibility evaluation for the Teacher Portal using the VPAT 2.5 framework. A public copy of our VPAT is available upon request and details how each part of Boddle aligns to WCAG 2.1 AA criteria, Section 508 requirements, and where we are actively improving.
Request the VPAT: contact@boddlelearning.com
Feedback & Support
Accessibility is an ongoing journey, and your feedback steers our roadmap. If you encounter any barriers while using Boddle, need materials in an alternative format, or have suggestions for improvement, please let us know:
📧 contact@boddlelearning.com
We strive to respond to all accessibility inquiries within five business days.
About the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) are global best‑practice recommendations published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). They describe how to design and code websites and apps so that people with a wide range of disabilities can perceive, operate, and understand digital content. WCAG is organized into three levels of success criteria:
- Level A sets the essential baseline for basic access.
- Level AA addresses the most common real‑world barriers and is the standard most K‑12 institutions require.
- Level AAA represents the highest, more specialized level of accessibility.
By mapping Boddle to WCAG 2.1 Level AA, we aim to remove the most significant obstacles to learning and play for as many users as possible.
