Accessibility Statement

Our Commitment

Special Education Law is committed to making this site usable by everyone, including people who rely on assistive technologies such as screen readers, keyboard navigation, voice input, and screen magnifiers.

Conformance Standards

This website strives to conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, Level AA. These 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 have chosen Level AA as the target for this website.

While we strive to adhere to the accepted guidelines and standards for accessibility, it is not always possible to do so in all areas of the website. We are continually seeking solutions that will bring all areas of the site up to the same level of overall accessibility.

What We've Done

Specific accessibility features of this site include:

• Full keyboard navigation — every interactive element can be reached and activated without a mouse
• A visible focus ring on every focusable element so keyboard users can always see where they are
• Semantic landmarks, headings, and form labels so screen readers can describe the page accurately
• Live region announcements when search results, save confirmations, and form errors update
• Dialogs and menus that trap focus appropriately, close on Escape, and return focus to where you came from
• Color combinations chosen to meet WCAG AA contrast ratios in both light and dark mode
• A dark mode for users who find high-contrast white backgrounds uncomfortable
• Text that scales with browser zoom up to 200% without loss of content or function
• Decorative icons hidden from assistive technologies so they don't add noise to the screen-reader experience

Assistive Technology Compatibility

This website is designed to be compatible with common assistive technologies, including screen readers such as JAWS, NVDA, and VoiceOver; screen magnification software; and operating system accessibility features including high contrast modes and text resizing.

Known Limitations

Some of the decision and ruling documents on this site originate as PDFs. We extract their text so it is searchable and screen-reader-accessible on the web, but the original PDFs themselves were not authored with accessibility in mind and may not be fully accessible if downloaded directly. If you encounter a specific decision whose extracted text is incomplete or garbled, please flag it using the “Flag” button on the decision page so we can re-process it.

Reporting an Accessibility Issue

For any accessibility-related questions or concerns, please reach out:

When you write, it helps us if you can include the page URL, the browser and assistive technology you were using (for example, “Chrome with VoiceOver” or “Firefox with NVDA”), and a short description of what went wrong.