Accessibility at the XTutio operating company

We want every student, parent and tutor to be able to learn here, including people who use a keyboard, a screen reader, magnification, or who have dyslexia or a vision, hearing or motor difference. We are working to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 at Level AA, and we treat accessibility as an ongoing commitment rather than a one-off project.

• Read-aloud everywhere: Australian-English text-to-speech reads words, sentences and whole reading passages on request.
• Dyslexia-friendly reading: an optional dyslexia-friendly font, adjustable reading text size, and a reading-comfort setting.
• Reading-age labels: every book in the reading library shows its reading age so texts can be matched to the reader.
• Full dark mode: a complete dark theme (and a system option) for low-light and contrast needs.
• Keyboard and structure: interactive controls are real buttons and links. Every portal - student, parent, tutor, admin, teacher and typing - opens with a "skip to main content" link and has exactly one main region, so a screen reader announces one place to start and a keyboard user can get there in a single press.
• Touch-friendly: a mobile-first layout, with the header, navigation and account controls in every portal meeting a minimum tap-target size of 44 by 44 pixels.
• No pinch-zoom on forms: form fields use at least a 16 pixel font on phones and tablets, so focusing one does not zoom the page in mobile Safari.
• Reduced motion: animations are minimised for people who prefer reduced motion.
• Captions: narrated lesson videos include word-synced on-screen captions.

We are honest about where we still have work to do:

• A few interactive activities need a pointer or a microphone - for example letter-jumble and the optional read-aloud fluency check - and currently offer limited screen-reader support. Equivalent non-interactive practice is always available.
• Some downloadable or uploaded documents may not yet be fully tagged for screen readers.
• Some dense staff-facing tables still place controls closer together than our 44 by 44 pixel minimum. The student, parent and tutor screens are the ones we test first and most.
• Colour contrast has not been measured pair by pair across every theme. We have designed for it in both light and dark mode, but we have not yet proved it.
• A formal independent WCAG 2.1 AA audit is planned; the statements above are based on our own internal testing.

If you hit a barrier, or you need information in another format, please tell us and we will help and fix it. The in-app feedback button reaches us directly, or contact:

Email: hello@xtutio.com