Accessibility statement

Last updated: October 24, 2026

Passdown is for every student, including students with disabilities. Accessibility is built into every screen, rather than added by a plug-in.

The standard

Passdown is built to meet Israeli Standard 5568 (based on WCAG 2.0) at level AA, which the Equal Rights for Persons with Disabilities (Service Accessibility Adjustments) Regulations, 2013, require, and it aims for WCAG 2.2 at level AA. It was checked against WCAG 2.2 at level AA on October 11, 2026: automatically (axe) on 106 screens in Hebrew, English, and Arabic, in light and dark, at phone and laptop widths, and by hand, with the keyboard alone, contrast as the screen draws it, text at 200%, a 320-pixel screen, wider text spacing, reduced motion, and Windows' contrast themes. It was also checked on real devices with VoiceOver and TalkBack on October 12, 2026. What it found was fixed, apart from the items below.

What we've done

Everything works with a keyboard alone, with a visible focus and a logical order. Esc closes panels and dialogs.
Screens use proper structure (headings, buttons, links, and labels), so screen readers such as VoiceOver and TalkBack can read them.
Every field has a visible label, and every error message is linked to its field.
Text contrast meets the standard in both the light and the dark theme, and color is never the only way something is shown.
You can always zoom the page.
Motion is short, and stops when your device asks for reduced motion.
Hebrew and Arabic read right to left, and English left to right. Text that mixes languages gets its own direction.
Buttons are large enough to tap easily: 44 by 44 pixels almost everywhere.
Photos on posts can have a description for screen readers, written by whoever posts them.

What isn't fully accessible yet

Files that students upload, PDFs and photos, may not be accessible, and a photo may have no description.
The PDF viewer shows pages as images, so a screen reader can't read their text. Download the file with the arrow on its line, and open it in an app that reads PDFs.
The gold crown on the week's top post in the Global feed keeps glowing while the page is open. It stops when your device asks for reduced motion.
With your device's text at its largest on a narrow phone, some pages scroll sideways.
In a long feed, posts far above or below the screen are shown only as you scroll close to them, so a screen reader and your browser's find in page (Ctrl+F) reach them only then. Scrolling the feed brings them in, and a course page's search finds all its posts.

Browsers and assistive technology

Passdown was checked on Safari (iPhone and iPad, whose engine Safari on a Mac shares), Chrome (Android and computers), Edge, and Firefox, and with VoiceOver and TalkBack.

Contact us

Found something hard to use? Tell us, and we'll fix it, or help you get the information another way.

Accessibility contact: Amit Kerub, passdown.space@gmail.com.

This statement was last updated on October 12, 2026.

The standard

What we've done

Everything works with a keyboard alone, with a visible focus and a logical order. Esc closes panels and dialogs.

Screens use proper structure (headings, buttons, links, and labels), so screen readers such as VoiceOver and TalkBack can read them.

Every field has a visible label, and every error message is linked to its field.

Text contrast meets the standard in both the light and the dark theme, and color is never the only way something is shown.

You can always zoom the page.

Motion is short, and stops when your device asks for reduced motion.

Hebrew and Arabic read right to left, and English left to right. Text that mixes languages gets its own direction.

Buttons are large enough to tap easily: 44 by 44 pixels almost everywhere.

Photos on posts can have a description for screen readers, written by whoever posts them.

What isn't fully accessible yet

Files that students upload, PDFs and photos, may not be accessible, and a photo may have no description.

The PDF viewer shows pages as images, so a screen reader can't read their text. Download the file with the arrow on its line, and open it in an app that reads PDFs.

The gold crown on the week's top post in the Global feed keeps glowing while the page is open. It stops when your device asks for reduced motion.

With your device's text at its largest on a narrow phone, some pages scroll sideways.

In a long feed, posts far above or below the screen are shown only as you scroll close to them, so a screen reader and your browser's find in page (Ctrl+F) reach them only then. Scrolling the feed brings them in, and a course page's search finds all its posts.