K–12 Digital Accessibility & Title II Readiness

The new federal Title II digital accessibility requirements present school districts with a challenge that extends far beyond the district website.

Digital accessibility touches the systems and materials students, families, educators, and staff use every day — including learning management systems, digital curriculum and instructional materials, assessment, teacher-created content, communications, mobile applications, and third-party educational technology.

Meeting accessibility requirements therefore isn't simply a matter of fixing individual websites or documents. It requires districts to develop sustainable practices for creating, selecting, purchasing, evaluating, and maintaining accessible digital resources.

From compliance requirement to sustainable practice

Diverse Learners™ Consulting helps K–12 districts understand their current state, identify the areas of greatest need, and develop a practical path forward.

A Title II Digital Accessibility Readiness Review can include:

  • reviewing current digital accessibility practices, policies, systems, and responsibilities;

  • identifying priority accessibility risks and gaps across websites, instructional technology, curriculum, assessment, and communications;

  • examining EdTech procurement and vendor-review practices;

  • reviewing workflows for teacher- and staff-created digital content;

  • identifying professional learning and organizational capacity needs; and

  • developing a prioritized, realistic roadmap for improving accessibility and sustaining it over time.

The goal is not simply to identify accessibility problems. It is to help districts build the people, processes, knowledge, and decision-making practices needed to make accessibility part of how digital learning environments are designed and managed.

Accessibility in the context of learning

Digital accessibility is most effective when it is considered alongside instructional design, Universal Design for Learning, learning science, and the needs of diverse learners.

Diverse Learners™ Consulting brings these perspectives together, helping districts address technical accessibility requirements while keeping the larger goal in view: ensuring that students and families can meaningfully access and participate in learning.