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Extend access and inclusion to learners with disabilities and non-native language speakers
One of the top priorities of education systems and their partners is making content accessible and inclusive to all learners. When educators make this happen, it propels students of all abilities to the next level in their personal journeys. Crawford Technologies supports this through two major initiatives:
Digital Document Accessibility Solutions and Services
The AccessibilityNow® platform is designed to automate the way education systems and learning platforms find, test, fix and maintain the educational course materials vital to students’ learning. AccessibilityNow can scan public websites or content stores, find documents, test those documents against WCAG checkpoints, report on results over time, and even route files that are not accessible to automated or manual remediation workflows. Results are:
- Immediate awareness of what course materials are accessible vs those that require remediation
- Detailed testing results at the page and document section-level, speeding authors’ efforts to make their content accessible and useable to students that rely on screen readers
- Optional capabilities to bulk-remediate files in an automated way, or to route files for internal or external manual remediation services which return the fixed files under specific SLA’s
- Student accommodation for specific alternative format such as braille, audio and large print for course materials and text books
Language Translation
As learner populations become increasingly diverse, schools and districts face growing pressure to communicate effectively with students and families who have Limited English Proficiency (LEP). Federal requirements under Title VI and Title III mandate meaningful access to important school communications, from enrollment forms and parent notifications to Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) and report cards.
Crawford Technologies helps education organizations meet these obligations by integrating language translation directly into their document workflows. Rather than managing translation as a separate, manual process, Crawford embeds machine translation into the same pipeline that produces print, digital, and accessible format outputs, enabling districts to deliver multilingual communications at scale without disrupting existing production processes.
Combined with Crawford’s accessibility solutions, including Large Print, Braille, Audio, and E-Text, this integrated approach ensures that every student and family can receive critical information in both the language and the format they need, closing the gap between language access and document accessibility.
