Committed to Quality Education for All Students
Goodheart-Willcox works to eliminate barriers for students with disabilities and meet them where they are. By adhering to the extensive accessibility guidelines on inclusive design and assistive technology, G-W delivers an effective educational experience for every learner and provides opportunities for all students to build skills for life.
Certified as a Global Accessible Publisher
Goodheart-Willcox is proud to be a Benetech Global Certified Accessible™ (GCA) publisher. Benetech, a global nonprofit focused on providing equitable opportunities for all learners, issues this accreditation to those publishers who produce EPUBs that meet a full range of accessibility features required to support the needs of all readers, including those with disabilities and learning differences.
What does this mean for you? It means that G-W puts accessibility at the center of our workflows and that we have consistently demonstrated success in producing files in accordance with Benetech's GCA certification standard, meeting the EPUB Accessibility 1.0 Conformance and Discovery specification and exceeding a publishing standard level of WCAG 2.0 AA.
The GCA certification reflects our commitment to providing all students with options that make reading easier and put them on the path to future success.
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Improving the Reading Experience
To ensure that people with disabilities such as blindness, dyslexia, low-vision, or mobility impairment have access to high-quality education, Goodheart-Willcox has partnered with Bookshare to make reading easier. Through Bookshare, G-W can offer accessible titles in a wide variety of formats, free of charge, to all qualifying students in the United States through the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP).
Learn more about BookshareTo ensure that our Canadian customers with disabilities such as blindness, dyslexia, low-vision, or mobility impairment have access to high-quality education, customers are encouraged to reach out to the Centre for Equitable Library access: www.celalibrary.ca. This is a public library service for Canadians with print disabilities. CELA members with proof of disability can access accessible eBooks from their Bookshare collection.
Learn more about CELANIMAC Compliance
Goodheart-Willcox meets all compliance standards with the National Instructional Materials Access Center (NIMAC) requirements for K-12 textbooks. Created by IDEA 2004, NIMAC is a federally funded, online repository of source files in the NIMAS format. NIMAC offers more than 65,000 K-12 NIMAS files for use in the production of accessible formats for students with disabilities.
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