Access is a Human Right.
Our standard.
One human-rights instrument and one technical floor hold us. We name them so the commitments are auditable.
Article 9 of the CRPD.
UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Adopted 2006. In force 2008. Over 180 state parties.
States Parties shall take appropriate measures to ensure to persons with disabilities access, on an equal basis with others, to information and communications, including information and communications technologies and systems.
WCAG 2.2 Level AA.
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, World Wide Web Consortium. The current technical version of the international consensus standard. The de facto benchmark used by U.S. courts in ADA Title III accessibility cases.
We target WCAG 2.2 AA across all public-facing pages on pedagogue.co. Every interactive element is reachable by keyboard with a visible focus ring. Every image carries a text equivalent. Every form field is labeled. Every page has a unique, descriptive title and a single first-level heading. Color is never the only carrier of meaning. Motion respects the prefers-reduced-motion preference. The mobile navigation overlay traps focus while open and releases it on close.
Both are floors. We track the work above them on this page.
This site.
Type on this site is served from our own servers. No third-party font provider is used. No JavaScript runs the page; the document loads as semantic HTML and remains readable with scripts disabled. Pages are static. There is no client-side routing layer to recover from.
Both light and dark themes are offered. Your operating system preference is respected on first visit; the footer toggle lets you change it. Both themes meet WCAG 2.2 AA contrast across the site.
We do not use overlay widgets, automated remediation toolbars, or third-party accessibility plugins.
Our products.
Accessibility in our products is governed the same way privacy is: by contract and by audit. The customer agreement defines who must reach which surface, by what assistive technology, and with what success. The Cassion audit substrate records whether they did.
Auditability is what makes an access commitment enforceable.
The policy.
This is the operational policy for pedagogue.co, the public site you are reading. It does not cover the customer products; those are governed by customer agreements with their own access terms.
Scope.
Every page reachable from the masthead navigation. The homepage, Earth to Work and its three doors, the writing index and chapters, the platform index and chapters, the invest page, the partner page and its three sub-pages, the interest form, the received page, the gated share surface for the seed memo. The accessibility and privacy pages themselves.
Audit.
We are in active conversation with a third party for the formal audit. We will name them when the engagement is signed. Until then, what we name on this page is what we have verified ourselves, with the assistive technologies named below.
Assistive technologies we test against.
VoiceOver on macOS Safari. VoiceOver on iOS Safari. NVDA on Windows Firefox. Keyboard-only navigation on all of the above. Browser zoom to 200 percent. The prefers-reduced-motion preference. The prefers-color-scheme preference, with light and dark themes both conforming. The forced-colors preference on Windows.
Known gaps.
We name what we have not yet finished. The living issue tracking that work is filed at pedagogue-site #63. Any reader can read it. When something on this page conflicts with what is in the issue, the issue is authoritative until the page is updated.
Report a barrier.
If you cannot reach something on this site, tell us. Use the interest form, select “Ask a question,” and include the page URL, what you were trying to do, what happened, and the assistive technology you were using. We treat these as priority and respond within seven days.
How long.
When you report a barrier, we acknowledge within seven days and resolve or commit to a date within thirty. The acknowledgement is not the resolution; the resolution is.
Who runs this.
Pedagogue Systems, Inc., a Delaware C-corporation. Contact via the interest form.
Changes.
When we change this policy in a meaningful way, the change will be visible at the bottom of the page with the date. We will not make changes retroactive.
The hard path.
The floor is what the law requires. The line above it is what we are tracking. We name the work so the discipline is visible.
The harder paths we are tracking include accessible AI interfaces, cognitive load and reading-level commitments beyond WCAG, and the structural question of whether an AI agent can ever satisfy a user's preference for a human interlocutor. WCAG does not answer that. We do not pretend to either, yet.
Live research thread: Beyond WCAG 2.2 AA: accessible AI standards and harder paths.
Questions or barriers.
Anything on this page is yours to question. Anything you cannot reach is ours to fix. Use the interest form, select “Ask a question,” and we will respond within seven days.
Tell us.Last reviewed: May 14, 2026.