Accessibility

Last Updated: Sep 4, 2024

As a global platform for creativity and self-expression, Padlet is deeply committed to being accessible to everyone.

The WCAG guidelines explain how to make web content more accessible for people with disabilities and more user-friendly for everyone. The guidelines have three levels of accessibility (A, AA and AAA). We’ve chosen Level AA as the target for Padlet.

Compliance

We are broadly compliant with WCAG level A for our Board product and are working towards AA by the end of 2024.

We also support compliance with US Revised Section 508 Standards and European EN 301 549 Accessibility requirements.

Screen readers

We have tested Padlet extensively with the most commonly used screen reader softwares (such as Apple VoiceOver, JAWS for Windows). We use landmarks to organize content so you can seamlessly navigate through it. We have implemented live regions so that any content updates are properly announced. We have added screenreader-only announcements for auto-saving forms.

We support full keyboard navigation across all our pages. We also provide convenient shortcuts for quick content creation. You can seamlessly move away from any section of the page without any keyboard traps blocking your way.

Alternative Text (Alt Text)

We support adding Alt Text to all images uploaded on Padlet. We highly recommend that you do so.

Captions

We automatically generate audio and video captions using AI. We will soon provide the ability to download the auto generated captions so you can update and re-upload.

Color contrast

We intend to fix all color contrast issues as part of our AA compliance target.

In the meantime, we recommend you download a web extension such as High Contrast for Chrome to increase contrast on Padlet pages.

Accessibility settings

We have added toggles that allow you to enable or disable shortcuts, choose if you want the toast notifications to disappear after a while or stay put.

We will be adding more options here so you can choose what works best for you.

VPAT

You can find our latest VPAT report here. It lists our compliance across WCAG, Section 598 and EN 301 Accessbility standards.

We have tried to include as much information as possible, especially for cases where the support is partial so that you get a clear picture of what is supported and what is missing.

FAQ

We have compiled a list of common topics that we are asked about here. It also includes some best practices that we recommend to get the most out of Padlet.

Feedback

We treat all accessibility related requests with a high priority. If something is not working for you, or you have feedback on how we can do better, do contact us here.