HiWhat is the problemThe new RCE allows a wide range of font selection. Obviously, there is a range of reasons for this from the wide variety of institutions and individuals. Instructional designers may use these new fonts really well. I accept that,...

Hi Accessibility Community!I wanted to cross-post a blog article that Instructure posted this morning about Accessibility: https://www.instructure.com/canvas/blog/accessibility-cornerstone-equity-educationIt mentions a milestone that we’re proud of r...

Our school system uses Gmail to register students into their accounts.  Is there a way to set the student's Gmail account as a default for communication without having to have to choose default email at the Windows level?  Most students are sharing c...

Our school system has adopted Canvas as a program of choice.  For special needs students trying to use Canvas, is there a way to have split screens available.  The class starts with a ZOOM call, then the teacher tries to go to breakout rooms.  You ha...

Hello all,Apologies if this has been covered before but I couldn't find a thread that brings up this specific issue. I have a foreign language accessibility question concerning quiz items, in particular multiple choice answer options with radio butto...

Hi all,I recently evaluated Canvas's new quizzing interface and the results of the Reorder Question type seemed like they would be confusing to screen reader users. If I set up the question where the correct answer is:Chicken EggThe QuestionAnd the s...

When we try to upload a video file directly to a Canvas content page and add captions to it, the window disappears. We've tried from a few different computers (PC, Mac) and browsers. The problem relates to .srt files and .vtt files. Here's an example...

How can we resolve this issue receiving " UDOIT failed to scan this course." We took the extreme step of replacing the entire server OS and all to try to resolve this with a fresh install and this error repeats.Description:This does not happen consis...

Hoping to see if anyone uses a live closed captioning software or company that provides closed captions to live lectures for accessibility. This would not be an every class type of thing. With everything being online now just want to be prepared. We ...

We have a vision impaired student uses both a laptop with a screen reader (JAWS) and a Braille Note Touch. It came up in a meeting today that he can't access text entry fields in Canvas (short-answer quiz questions, discussion posts) when using the B...

Is Canvas working on adding the capability of captioning live audio and video comments without having to purchase Studio? 

Hi-In testing yesterday, I noticed that radio groups/multiple choice questions are missing an association with the question; they are not using a fieldset and legend, nor are they using appropriate aria grouping and labeling. I also note that this wa...

Here is a recent article that I came across about the University of North Florida's first deaf Nursing Student. Thought that some of you out there would be interested.UNF's First Deaf Nursing Student

We deployed UDOIT about a month ago.  It would be nice to gauge our current level of accessibility so that we can monitor our progress going forward.Has anyone used statistics from UDOIT to estimate the level of accessibility of a whole school?  If s...

Hi all. I recently was asked to review Perusall. Based on my examination, Perusall does not seem to be accessible to persons using a keyboard or screen reader to navigate. Since there are faculty at my institution currently using it, I was wondering ...

Can anyone tell me (or show me) how DocViewer works with a screen reader when accessing annotations?

I've been looking at the google LTI integration, focused on accessibility. Has anyone else looked at this? One of the initial things I've noticed is that the Google-specific keyboard command to bring up the keyboard shortcuts (ctl-/) doesn't work wit...

I want to know how accessible are the Canvas rubrics? Do they work with keyboard navigation or screen readers? Both when they are being viewed in the assignment view or through the gradebook?

I'm trying to understand how effective keyboard shortcuts are in canvas, both for those using screen-readers and for those using shortcuts because of a physical impairment. I'm baffled by the lack of access to shortcuts within module pages (nothing h...

Hi tr_jbates‌...When UDOIT finds an error that needs to be corrected (for example, "Alternative Text should not be the image filename"), has there been any thought to actually highlighting that portion of the code in UDOIT so that people can see exac...

Does anyone have a guide to Canvas using JAWS. I have asked Canvas help and they have said it is up to JAWS to provide it - but JAWS clearly doesn't provide guides for every piece of software available and Cnavas is a closed environment anyway. It wo...

Has anyone else found that the Instructor tutorial hide and show buttons are not labeled? I discovered this using the JAWS screen reader. 

Here are some YouTube videos that were published a couple of weeks ago as of this post on how and why you should caption your videos in YouTube.1. How to get 80% more views2. How to Caption3. Don't Do This!4. Secret Language of Captions

Accessibility and assignment upload with JAWSWe have had a problem this week with a JAWS user who was not able to upload a file for an assignment. Can anyone advise how this can be done? I replicated the problem myself and just couldn't get into the ...

Have any of you written any accessibility advice for students on their use of Canvas? I have some ideas, but it would be great to see some more examples. Thank youRos