Accessibility for everyone
Education technology should enhance learning for everyone, regardless of ability or circumstance.
At Turnitin, we are committed to accessibility. As part of that commitment, we work toward ensuring that Turnitin’s products align with applicable web accessibility laws. In practice, we use third-party accessibility experts to evaluate our products against the WCAG 2.1 AA standard and we share their findings through our product VPATs. We expect to begin testing and striving to substantially comply with WCAG 2.2 AA by the end of 2024 with a goal of making updates in 2025 to address any critical or blocking issues.
Our Approach
Turnitin continues to develop our accessibility program and capabilities so that we are designing, developing, and testing our products for conformance to accessibility standards.
We engage in both internal and external accessibility evaluation and provide our conformance via a date-stamped VPAT available below.
Measures to Support Accessibility
Turnitin takes the following measures to ensure the accessibility of our products:
- Make accessibility a priority for our product, engineering, and design functions by assigning clear accessibility objectives and responsibilities
- Design and build products using an in-house design system, containing accessible, reusable, customizable components and patterns
- Include assistive technology testing during quality assurance reviews. Some of the tools used to conduct accessibility testing include:
- NVDA and JAWS screen reader support on Windows for Chrome, Firefox, and Edge browser
- VoiceOver support on macOS for Safari, Chrome, Firefox, and Edge browsers
- Keyboard accessibility support across supported browsers on Windows and macOS
- High contrast support across supported browsers on Windows and macOS
Turnitin products are tested using the latest operating systems, web browsers, and screen reader technologies referenced above.
View our accessibility results
Our Voluntary Product Accessibility Templates (VPATs) are available for download by product.
Product | Download |
Draft Coach™ | Draft Coach VPAT [PDF] (August 2023) |
Turnitin Feedback Studio | Feedback Studio Student PeerMark Interface VPAT [PDF] (May 2023) |
Feedback Studio Student Feedback and Online Grading Interface VPAT [PDF] (May 2023) | |
Feedback Studio Text Only Similarity Report VPAT [PDF] (May 2023) | |
Feedback Studio LTI Student Assignment Management Interface VPAT [PDF] (May 2023) | |
Student Content Management System Interface VPAT [PDF] (March 2020) | |
Gradescope | Gradescope Web Content Accessibility Guidelines VPAT [PDF] (December 2023) |
Gradescope Mobile Content Accessibility Guidelines VPAT [PDF] (December 2023) | |
iThenticate | iThenticate Interface VPAT [PDF] (April 2017) |
Turnitin Originality | Turnitin Originality Report Interface VPAT [PDF] (April 2020) |
Turnitin Similarity | Turnitin Similarity Report Interface VPAT [PDF] (April 2020) |