Accessibility

Last updated: October 19, 2026.

Pursiva should work for every student and family, including people who use a screen reader, navigate with a keyboard, magnify the screen, or need more contrast.

Our goal

Our goal is to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2, level AA, the standard published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Pursiva has not yet had an independent accessibility audit, and some parts do not fully meet the standard yet. They are listed below, so you know what to expect.

What we do

• Pursiva is built to be used with a keyboard alone, with a visible focus indicator. Where something can be dragged, there is also a button that does the same thing.
• Pages have their own titles, real headings and landmarks, so screen readers can tell pages apart and move around them.
• Buttons and form fields have names a screen reader can read, and errors are explained in words, not only in color.
• When Pursiva is working on something for you, such as writing a plan, a screen reader is told when it starts, when it is done, and if it did not work.
• Images that carry meaning have text descriptions; decorative images are hidden from screen readers. Charts can also be shown as a table.
• Text and controls meet WCAG contrast ratios, and color is never the only way information is shown.
• Pursiva works when text is enlarged up to 200% and on small screens.
• Walkthrough videos have English captions and a written transcript next to each one. They never play by themselves.
• Every change to Pursiva is checked automatically for common accessibility problems. An automated browser also signs up and works through the main journeys (the profile, the Core Narrative and the year plan) and checks each screen against WCAG 2.2 AA. We also check the main student journeys by hand: with a keyboard alone, and by reviewing what each page gives a screen reader (names, headings, landmarks and announcements).

We do not use an "accessibility overlay" widget. We fix the pages themselves instead.

Known limitations

• Errors that come back from our servers are sometimes shown above the form rather than next to the field they are about. The message says which answer needs attention.
• Some SAT practice questions contain math notation. We publish it in a form screen readers can read (MathML), and we are still improving how complex equations are read aloud.

Tell us about a problem

If something in Pursiva is hard to use, please tell us at support@pursivaprep.com, with the page and what happened. We aim to reply within 2 business days, and to fix the problem or offer another way to do what you need.