Accessibility

mworden · 2016-07-14

Is anyone here familiar with Ally, the accessibility checker? The Open Education Initiative (OEI) in California is rolling this out soon and I would love to hear some reviews.Mark

kmeeusen · 2016-04-04

See announcement below................... Hello everyone,We are finally ready to publish the result of Canvas Accessibility Testing & Evaluation Project.Thanks to Instructure and all colleagues and friends who collaborated on this complex and time-co...

kmeeusen · 2016-03-31

April 4—May 13 Rutgers University is hosting a six-week noncredit course for online course designers and instructors that covers the basics in accessible design. Register for this course & other Online Teaching Certificate workshops at https://online...

ordwaye · 2016-03-28

I so I have tried to set this up a couple times with both the instant heroku version and the cli version setting my own keys. In both cases I am getting and error of BLTI not valid: our key: XXXXXXwhen I actual try to access it from our test canvas...

tr_jbates · 2016-03-21

Faculty adoption and training for UDOIT was brought up by @kmeeusen in the discussion for the UDOIT group proposal. I think the community could benefit from hearing how other schools are promoting the tool and training faculty and staff on its us...

snugent · 2016-03-17

I just got done consulting with a blind instructor who is interested in using Canvas in his face-to-face class. We found that when he created an assignment he could not get JAWS to focus on getting the cursor into the rich content editor. I think he ...

sarah_mcmanus · 2016-03-02

Do any of your students use Jaws to read math equations produced by the Canvas math equation editor? I cannot get it to read the equations (e.g., quadratic formula) properly. HELP!!!

lse224 · 2016-02-23

How is everyone feeling about the update to the red/yellow/green analytics graphs? The shape change is subtle, but it is working for your populations?

stephanie_johns · 2016-02-18

I was recently told by an instructional designer on campus that tables are not "accessible" in Canvas, meaning that screenreaders cannot parse and read them.My understanding from reading Canvas documents (see below) is that a properly formatted/coded...

mworden · 2016-01-21

Has anyone encountered this situation?An instructor embeds several YouTube videos into their course. Some of the embedded videos display a CC and some don't, yet all of them have closed captioning if you go directly to YouTube. We have encountered th...

snugent · 2016-01-20

Does anybody have experience using text to speech software with Canvas? I came across this list of software. Any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks. http://elearningindustry.com/top-10-text-to-speech-tts-software-elearning

carli_tegtmeier · 2015-10-22

Does anyone have a recommendation for an accessibility checker that integrates with Canvas and works on external docs like PDF and Word?

buddyhall · 2015-10-20

Does anyone have some information on using discussions with a screen reader that I can share with a faculty member? One of her students seems to be doing fine with Canvas except for discussions.Thanks!

jenn_stevens · 2015-07-24

Hi all,I was noticing that a lot of the accessibility feature requests are pretty buried and do not have a lot of votes. Here's a quick link to see what feature ideas have the accessibility tag: Canvas Feature Ideas .

DaleDrees · 2015-07-17

I am updating some accessibility documents that we have at our college that we use to train people on checking on accessibility and one of them centers on the Accessibility checker that Microsoft Word 2010 and higher has. Seems to be a great tool for...

demefackc · 2015-07-15

Hi all,Is the Fixed Bugs section of the Canvas Production Release Notes (2015-07-18) the most direct way to find out about changes that impact accessibility issues? I'm working with a visually impaired faculty member who was just totally blocked by a...

judyk · 2015-07-10

One of the things that we really try to accomplish is an awareness of the need to have accessible content within all of your courses. I work with dreesd at SCF in Florida and we run a faculty eCertification course. During week 3 we discuss Accessibi...

cms_hickss · 2015-07-07

Let's get this group started What are the biggest accessibility issues your users (teachers and students) encounter while teaching and learning online using Canvas?

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