Join us for The InstructureCon25 Encore Series—a book club that brings the voices from InstructureCon into your everyday learning. Our reading of Everyday Dharma begins September 2!
En el centro de Miami-Dade, Doral es un punto esencial para los que buscan compra de oro Doral y compra y venta de joyas Doral. Ya sean herencias, joyas rotas, relojes de lujo o simplemente invertir en metales preciosos, en Doral hay un mercado prósp...
The Accessibility Toolkit just got an upgrade! New resources, easy navigation, recommended tools, and tips straight from the community. See what’s inside.
As part of our ongoing work to improve accessibility, since February we have made a wide range of subtle but meaningful UI updates across the platform. These changes aim to create a smoother experience for everyone, whether you are navigating with a ...
Internal Accessibility Engineering Process
Here at Instructure, we believe that accessibility isn't just a feature—it's a foundational part of how we build. Creating accessible experiences is a cross-functional effort that starts from the earliest d...
In today's digital age, creating accessible learning experiences is not just a best practice, it's a necessity. As Product Designers, we have a responsibility to ensure that our content and user experience is usable by everyone, regardless of their a...
At Cidi Labs, a provider of clever, affordable tools integrated with Canvas LMS, we see accessibility as a shared responsibility–not just the job of instructional designers or disability services, but a collaborative effort across educators, administ...
The Instructure Learning Services team is excited to announce the launch of a new free course, available in all tiers of the On-Demand Training Portal (including the free tier) starting Monday, April 14, 2025. This course is designed to guide all Ca...
Have you ever tried watching a video without sound—or without being able to see the screen? For many students, that’s their everyday reality. In this post, we break down how to make your videos more inclusive with captions, transcripts, and audio des...
Ever opened a document that was impossible to read or navigate? Now imagine facing that every day. Inaccessible documents and presentations create real barriers for millions of people. In this post, we’ll show you how to make your Word docs, PDFs, an...
What if the only thing standing between a student and their success was a missing caption or an unreadable PDF? Inaccessible course materials create real barriers that limit learning and equity. In this post, we explore why accessibility in education...
Hello everyone,
I wanted to share a great opportunity that's happening from February 25th-27th, 2025.
Deque is hosting their annual axe-con Accessibility Conference and registration is completely free. All of the sessions will be recorded, so even if...
We’re excited to introduce the newly refreshed Accessibility Community Group—a dedicated place for educators, designers, and accessibility advocates to connect, share insights, and collaborate on all things accessibility.
Braille Institute is a century-old organization dedicated to serving individuals experiencing vision loss. With a focus on accessibility and engagement, Braille Institute seeks to empower its diverse user base across seven centers in Southern Califor...
Accessibility is a necessary practice for ensuring our classrooms, courses and learning environments are inclusive to all learners. As our educational offerings become increasingly diverse, and the concept of a ‘traditional student’ is broadened, th...
According to the World Health Organisation and the World Bank, there are over a billion people in the world who are struggling with disabilities, and about 93 to 150 million of them are children? Reports further state that these individuals are 10 ti...
Accessibility in Online Course Design
What's Included in This Post?• Why Accessibility Matters in Course Design• 7 Pillars of Accessibility• Explore Examples of Content Accessibility Using a Screen Reader
"A11y" stands for "accessibility." It is a ...
The UDOIT developer community has been putting a lot of work into making UDOIT 3 more capable, easier to install, more stable, and easier to debug. Check out the highlights!
JAWS is a commonly used accessibility screen reader and is one of the screen readers supported for use with Canvas. This post will discuss some basics of using JAWS with Canvas.
In the spirit of International Day of Disabled Persons on the 3rd December, read about tangible ways that Canvas can help you create accessible resources through a Universal Design for Learning (UDL) lens.
This is the first official open source release of the "Next Generation" UDOIT! It has been completely rewritten from the ground up to make it easier and faster to use. It's also more extensible, so we can more easily add new accessibility checks and ...
This is the final UDOIT 2.x release! It contains a number of feature enhancements and bug fixes. We're also changing the way we interact with the community.
This release is focused on improving the user experience. Cidi Labs contributed most of the code for this release in response to requests from their customers, and we are extremely grateful for this contribution. If you are attending CanvasCon next...
A few institutions have contacted me over the last few weeks regarding an error they receive when launching UDOIT in Chrome. The full error is "Missing Session information. Please refresh the page. Missing: base_url". Here's how to solve it.
I'm back with another bugfix release! If you are able, it would be most helpful if you could update your QA or Testing instance of UDOIT to this version; the last few bugfix releases were made possible by institutions testing out the code in their u...
This release fixes a number of issues, both new and old. A huge thanks to escull for figuring out so many of these. If you've been having any trouble with tables, please test out this version and let me know if it your issues are resolved.
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