Each student, family, and community possess strengths and cultural knowledge that benefits their peers, educators, and schools.

Ensuring educational equity:

  • Goes beyond equality; it requires education leaders to examine the ways current policies and practices result in disparate outcomes for our students of color, students living in poverty, students receiving special education and English Learner services, students who identify as LGBTQ+, and highly mobile student populations.
  • Requires education leaders to develop an understanding of historical contexts; engage students, families, and community representatives as partners in decision-making; and actively dismantle systemic barriers, replacing them with policies and practices that ensure all students have access to the instruction and support they need to succeed in our schools.

Equity statement of Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI)

WSSB – Web Accessibility Policy

POLICY: DATE:  August 26, 2016
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SUBJECT: Web Accessibility Policy

Prepared by: Danya Borowski
Approved by: Scott McCallum, Superintendent

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1. Purpose

The Washington State School for the Blind is committed to providing equal access to Web-based information in accordance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0.

This ensures that WSSB Web pages will be accessible by staff, students, and customers with disabilities. The Web Accessibility Policy will satisfy minimal accessibility standards for Web pages as defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), http://www.w3.org.

2. Scope

This policy applies to all Washington State School for the Blind employees, contractors, consultants, temporaries, and other workers including all personnel affiliated with third parties building web pages for WSSB.

3. Policy

Public Web pages at Washington State School for the Blind must satisfy priority level one checkpoints for accessibility as defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and Level AA compliance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0

[1], including the guidelines associated with these principles:

  1. Perceivable [2]: Information and user interface components must be presentable to users in ways they can perceive.
  2. Operable [3]: User interface components and navigation must be operable.
  3. Understandable [4]: Information and the operation of user interface must be understandable.
  4. Robust [5]: Content must be robust enough that it can be interpreted reliably by a wide variety of user agents, including assistive technologies.

Each department is responsible for identifying the Web pages, which must be accessible. For legacy Web pages, a prudent attempt must be made to achieve compliance as soon as possible. New Web pages must satisfy priority level one checkpoints. Where compliance is not possible or may require extraordinary measures, the superintendent or designee may grant exceptions to this policy.

4. Enforcement

Any employee found to have knowingly violated this policy may be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment.

If you have any concerns with the accessibility of this site, please contact the webmaster.