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Accessibility
The display settings you can change on a board and in a lab, how to make your own material accessible, and how to tell us about a barrier.
Change what you can. Tell us what you cannot.
The statement
Our accessibility statement is the full and current account of what we aim for, what is in place and what is not yet. This article is a practical guide to the settings; where the two differ, the statement is right.
On a whiteboard
The whiteboard's Accessibility options let each person adjust the board for themselves, without changing it for anyone else:
- text size for the toolbars and menus;
- High contrast, which boosts colours and outlines;
- reduced motion, which keeps slide transitions and animations to a minimum;
- a Dyslexia-friendly font;
- a colour-blind-safe pen palette, which offers fewer colours but keeps them distinct;
- zoom, and descriptions for pictures.
When one of these is on, the board says so where it matters. For example, it explains why the pen palette has fewer colours, so nobody wonders whether something is broken.
In a Virtual Lab
A lab's View & accessibility menu changes text size, high contrast, lab sounds, reduce motion and depth of field. Reduce motion and high contrast turn depth of field off by themselves. Labs also offer scalable equations, data tables beside graphs, and text descriptions of the apparatus.
In a Quest Ladder
Questions can be answered from the keyboard. A ladder can carry alternative text for pictures, captions and transcripts for media, and maths that a screen reader can read. A teacher can take time pressure away for a whole delivery, or give one learner more time than the rest.
Making your own material accessible
Much of what a learner meets on TeachForge is made by their teacher, so a good part of accessibility is in the teacher's hands:
- Give every picture a short description. On a board, add it when you insert the picture.
- After a diagram or a chart, add a line of plain text that says what it shows.
- Do not use colour alone to carry meaning: add a label or a pattern as well.
- Check what the AI drafts before you publish it. Automatic checks cannot judge every diagram, so you remain the one who decides it is right for your learners.
What a canvas cannot do
Some things on TeachForge are visual by nature: freehand ink on a whiteboard, drawings, and 3D scenes. A screen reader cannot describe a freehand sketch by itself. The descriptions you add are what make it reachable. Some settings, such as text size, are set separately on each part of TeachForge rather than once for everything. The statement lists these limits in full.
Telling us about a barrier
If something stops you or a learner from using TeachForge, tell us. The most useful report gives the page address, the browser you use, and any assistive technology involved, such as a screen reader or switch access.
- Email accessibility@teachforge.ai.
- Or use Report a problem in the Help & feedback corner, which sends the page and browser details for you.
- Or use the contact form, which works without an account.
Getting help and reporting a problem describes each of these.