Benetech Accessibility Services for Education (BASE)

Make learning more inclusive by ensuring your content and platforms are accessible to all learners

Accessibility for educational institutions

Ensuring equal access for all students can be a complex and overwhelming task. Whether it’s inaccessible websites, outdated policies, or a lack of awareness, these barriers prevent many learners from fully engaging with your programs and services. Benetech’s Accessibility Services for Education (BASE) can help you bridge the gap, so every student has the tools they need to succeed.

Our services

BASE is designed to dramatically level up your educational organization’s accessibility capacity so all students can unleash their learning potential. Our comprehensive suite of services helps educational entities by assessing current practices, identifying improvement areas, providing staff training and resources, and creating actionable plans that ensure equitable access and inclusion for all learners.

Digital Accessibility Assessment

Review your organization’s websites and digital documents to ensure they meet industry accessibility standards.

Accessibility Maturity Model

Develop an informative framework to help organizations assess and improve accessibility policies, processes, and outcomes.

Professional Development

Support your team’s growth and learning, including creating accessible documents, using built-in accessibility features, and using Universal Design for Learning.

Unlock equitable learning with BASE

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Organizations we support

Trusted by educational institutions

“The BASE Maturity Model guides our campus-wide planning. This roadmap helps us assess where we currently stand in terms of accessibility maturity, looking across areas like procurement, digital content, training, and policy, and then sets clear goals and benchmarks for where we want to go. That has really been helpful for a school who actually had a really good start, but needed some guidance.”

Cheryl Fulgham, Director of Instructional Design & Online Learning, Haywood Community College.

“The Digital Assessment was extremely comprehensive, and I appreciated how everything was clearly prioritized as high, medium, or low. What also stood out was that many of the same issues kept coming up, which actually made it easier to see where professional development could make the biggest impact. That clarity was very helpful.”

Katie Krueger, Technology Director, School District of the Menomonie Area.

“The range and breadth of areas covered by the Maturity Model was the most valuable and insightful aspect for our institution, making the case that the responsibility for ensuring accessibility is not limited to a few specific groups on campus but extends throughout the institution and is imperative for all departments and personnel to be aware and engaged.”

Paula Kaplan, Director of Instructional Design and Technology, Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame.