May 31, 2020

At American Board of Education (ABE), our mission is to increase access to high-quality education for everyone, everywhere – including learners with disabilities. We seek to understand and respect the unique needs and perspectives of our students and partners, and we value every learner. Accordingly, we are committed to ensuring that www.educationboard.us is accessible to individuals with disabilities and that our platform permits content providers to develop and post accessible content. To meet this goal, we are committed to the following:

• We aim to conform educationboard.us with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines ("WCAG") 2.1 AA, published by the World Wide Web Consortium, and provide course authoring tools that permit content providers to post course content that conforms with WCAG 2.1 AA. We verify conformance through a combination of manual code inspection, automated testing using industry-recognized tools, compatibility testing using the most widely used accessibility support tools and, from time to time, review by an independent website accessibility consultant.
• We prioritize accessibility bug fixes to ensure they are remedied with the same level of priority as any other equivalent loss of function for individuals without disabilities.
• We link to this policy from the educationboard.us homepage and distribute it to content providers and relevant ABE employees and contractors.
• We require that all course videos include timed captions and that all content providers comply with their independent obligations under applicable accessibility laws, in an effort to help ensure that course content posted on educationboard.us will meet a wide variety of requirements of learners with disabilities. To assist content providers in their efforts, we publish and distribute Accessibility Best Practices Guidance for Content Providers.
• We provide annual training to ABE employees and relevant contractors on ensuring educationboard.usconforms with WCAG 2.1 AA.
• We welcome accessibility-related feedback, including requests for accommodation, through webmaster@educationboard.us, which is managed by the webmaster of the institute.

As with any rapidly advancing technology platform, enhancement of accessibility at ABE is an ongoing process. Please direct any questions or suggestions on how to improve the accessibility of www.educationboard.us to webmaster@educationboard.us. We welcome your feedback.