BFW Publishers Accessibility

As part of our commitment to inclusive education, we expect all partners to ensure their digital products and services meet current accessibility standards, including WCAG and relevant legal guidelines. By working together, we can provide equitable learning experiences for all users. Here, you’ll find our accessibility criteria, evaluation process, and resources to support compliance.

Supplier Accessibility Requirements

Transparent, current, and accurate information about accessibility is essential for the purchase and sale of technology products and services that people with disabilities can use. BFW Publishers’s Accessibility Procurement Process covers vendors/suppliers who provide digital content, functionality, systems, services, or hardware that employees or applicants may interface with including:

• Services involving design, development or testing of content, services, or functionality for –or that render interfaces for – the web, mobile, emails, and voice response.
• Software – whether web, mobile, or cloud-based.
• Document services such as design, creation, and implementation of PDFs, presentations, other digital documents, and spreadsheets (whether for dialog or analog distribution).
• Video, audio, or multimedia – including video, audio, or multimedia content (live or pre-recorded) and media players or other mechanisms for playing and controlling media.
• Telecommunications products – including wired, analog and digital wireless, and Internet-based products.
• Self-contained, closed products – Products that have embedded software and are commonly designed in such a fashion that users cannot easily attach or install assistive technology. This includes kiosks, copiers, printers, and other similar types of products.
• Hardware – including desktops, laptops, mobile devices or other handhelds, workstations, and servers.
• Communication channels.

Supplier Expectations

We expect that all technology will be tested for accessibility during the development process and at the time of delivery and that testing protocols and results will be documented and provided to us in a timely fashion. Our organization may verify testing results at the time of delivery.

It is the responsibility of our suppliers to correct accessibility defects revealed during the development and testing processes and after product delivery to the best of their ability as technology permits.

We expect our vendors to show their commitment to digital accessibility by maintaining a public accessibility statement that includes contact information for the person(s) responsible for accessibility.

Pages last updated October 30, 2025.