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KevinMeredith

Accessibility Features in Canvas LMS and Studio for Teachers - Video

Faculty-oriented video for features in Canvas and Studio that support digital accessibility. 

Instructure Instructure
2025-05-16 Accessibility
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A11y Tools

Canvas LMS

Canvas Studio

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dsasaki

Building Inclusive Products: Our Internal Accessibility Engineering Process

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...

Instructure Instructure
2025-05-14 Accessibility
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WhitneyPesek

Design with Accessibility First: Integrating WCAG Compliance From the Start

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...

Instructure Instructure
2025-05-12 Accessibility
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A11y Tools

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JenniferAshley

Resource: Alt Text Flow Chart

Demystify image descriptions and make your content more accessible—starting today.

Instructure Instructure
2025-04-22 Accessibility
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A11y Tools

AT: Computers

AT: Learning or Cognition

AT: Speech Communication

AT: Vision

Professional Learning Servic...

UDL

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SarahCornelius

Accessibility Takes a Village: How Cidi Labs Tools Help Everyone Play a Part

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...

Instructure Instructure
2025-04-18 Accessibility
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A11y Tools

Canvas LMS

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jsailor

New Course Announcement: Fundamentals of Accessible Digital Content in Canvas

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...

Instructure Instructure
2025-04-14 Accessibility
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A11y Tools

AT: Computers

AT: Hearing

AT: Learning or Cognition

AT: Speech Communication

AT: Vision

Professional Learning Servic...

UDL

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JenniferAshley

Creating Accessible Videos and Multimedia

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...

Instructure Instructure
2025-04-07 Accessibility
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A11y Tools

AT: Computers

AT: Hearing

AT: Speech Communication

AT: Vision

Canvas LMS

Canvas Studio

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JenniferAshley

Designing Accessible Documents and Presentations: Making Content Work for Everyone

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...

Instructure Instructure
2025-03-31 Accessibility
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A11y Tools

AT: Computers

AT: Hearing

AT: Learning or Cognition

AT: Speech Communication

AT: Vision

Canvas LMS

UDL

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JenniferAshley

Why Accessibility Matters in Education

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...

Instructure Instructure
2025-03-24 Accessibility
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A11y Tools

Canvas LMS

UDL

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EvaSnider

Accessibility Training for Post-Secondary Faculty

Learn one way Ball State University approached the challenge of educating faculty about course accessibility using a Canvas self-paced course.

Community Member
2025-02-24 Accessibility
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A11y Tools

AT: Vision

Canvas LMS

UDL

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dsasaki

Deque axe-con 2025 (Feb 25th-27th)

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...

Instructure Instructure
2025-02-19 Accessibility
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AT: Computers

AT: Hearing

AT: Learning or Cognition

AT: Speech Communication

AT: Vision

UDL

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jsailor

Welcome to the Revamped Accessibility Community Group!

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.

Instructure Instructure
2025-02-14 Accessibility
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AT: Computers

AT: Hearing

AT: Learning or Cognition

AT: Speech Communication

AT: Vision

Canvas LMS

UDL

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bgooding

Enhancing Accessibility in Education at Braille Institute

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...

Instructure Instructure
2025-01-28 Accessibility
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AT: Vision

Canvas LMS

UDL

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Jess_Jones

Canvas for All | Strategies for Prioritising Accessibility

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...

Instructure Instructure
2024-01-16 Accessibility
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AT: Computers

AT: Hearing

AT: Learning or Cognition

AT: Speech Communication

AT: Vision

Canvas LMS

UDL

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KamaldeepSingh

Why Distance Learning is a Game Changer for People with Disabilities

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...

Community Member
2023-08-31 Accessibility
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AT: Computers

AT: Hearing

AT: Learning or Cognition

AT: Speech Communication

AT: Vision

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SašaStojićIto

Accessibility in Online Course Design

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 ...

Instructure Instructure
2022-08-31 Accessibility
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A11y Tools

AT: Computers

AT: Hearing

AT: Learning or Cognition

AT: Speech Communication

AT: Vision

Canvas LMS

UDL

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tr_jbates

UDOIT 3.2.0 "June Park"

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!

Community Champion
2022-03-23 Accessibility
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AT: Hearing

AT: Vision

Canvas LMS

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dsasaki

Navigating Canvas with JAWS

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.

Instructure Instructure
2022-02-04 Accessibility
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AT: Computers

AT: Hearing

AT: Speech Communication

AT: Vision

Canvas LMS

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constance_khoo

Canvas x Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

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.

Instructure Instructure
2021-11-11 Accessibility
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AT: Computers

AT: Hearing

AT: Speech Communication

AT: Vision

Canvas LMS

UDL

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tr_jbates

UDOIT 3.0.0 "Howey-in-the-Hills"

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 ...

Community Champion
2021-10-05 Accessibility
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AT: Hearing

AT: Vision

Canvas LMS

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tr_jbates

UDOIT 2.8.0 "Gotha"

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.

Community Champion
2021-07-29 Accessibility
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AT: Hearing

AT: Vision

Canvas LMS

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tr_jbates

UDOIT 2.7.0 "Frostproof"

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...

Community Champion
2020-10-09 Accessibility
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AT: Hearing

AT: Vision

Canvas LMS

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tr_jbates

UDOIT "Missing Session Information" Error in Chrome

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.  

Community Champion
2020-08-24 Accessibility
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AT: Hearing

AT: Vision

Canvas LMS

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tr_jbates

UDOIT 2.6.4

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...

Community Champion
2020-05-29 Accessibility
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AT: Hearing

AT: Vision

Canvas LMS

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tr_jbates

UDOIT 2.6.3 - PHP 7.3 Compatibility!

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.   Upgra...

Community Champion
2020-05-18 Accessibility
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AT: Hearing

AT: Vision

Canvas LMS

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dsasaki

Keyboard Navigation & Microsoft Teams

Most of the functions in Microsoft Teams have a slightly different Keyboard Navigation method than most functionality within Canvas. Microsoft Teams will primarily use the Tab key to move between a group of objects, and then from that group, use the ...

Instructure Instructure
2020-03-20 Accessibility
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AT: Computers

Canvas LMS

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dsasaki

Canvas from Home

With things changing and students transitioning to online classes from home, we want to ensure that they have the resources to learn and access content in Canvas.  The following offers alternative technologies users can utilize if they do not have ac...

Instructure Instructure
2020-03-13 Accessibility
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AT: Computers

AT: Hearing

AT: Speech Communication

AT: Vision

Canvas LMS

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tr_jbates

UDOIT 2.6.2

This release fixes some bugs that were reported shortly after the release of 2.6.1  Thanks to  @janejump ‌ for discovering these!   Download version 2.6.2 of UDOIT now! Please refer to the release notes for 2.6.0 for installation and configuration in...

Community Champion
2020-03-02 Accessibility
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AT: Hearing

AT: Vision

Canvas LMS

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tr_jbates

UDOIT 2.6.1

This release fixes some bugs that were reported shortly after the release of 2.6.0.  I would like to thank Tulane University and Cidi Labs for discovering these issues and contributing solutions!   Please refer to the release notes for 2.6.0 for inst...

Community Champion
2020-02-14 Accessibility
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AT: Hearing

AT: Vision

Canvas LMS

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tr_jbates

UDOIT 2.6.0 "Eatonville"

This is a critical update for any institutions that run UDOIT on a separate domain from their instance of Canvas, such as the LTI server being "lti.myuniversity.edu" and Canvas being "myuniversity.instructure.com".  This update needs to be applied to...

Community Champion
2020-01-15 Accessibility
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AT: Hearing

AT: Vision

Canvas LMS

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