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 that apply to 2.2 but do not apply to 2.1.

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.

Additionally, while we do not control vendors of third party digital content, we strongly encourage such vendors to provide content that is accessible and user friendly.

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)