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Problem statement: Captions have to be manually requested for and published. Proposed solution: Captions should be created automatically upon record/upload without having to manually request them and...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently there is no way to filter out the results of the link validator to not include broken links that appear within unpublished content. One use case for this is if there is a ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, the RCE provides a "quick" picker for text colors. Many of the 20 choices are not deemed accessible at the default text size by Canvas's own Accessibility Checker feature...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Students struggle to turn on captions due to the non standardized icon for "toggle captions on" versus the universally standard "CC" icon. Resulting in a frustrating hunt for my alt...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Current RCE tools allow for the easy addition of Alt Text. This functions well for non-complex images. However, this does not function well for complex images such as a diagram of a...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Media recordings within Canvas don't allow for auto-captioning and are difficult to accomplish at best. I understand purchasing Canvas Studio can resolve some of the issues, but the...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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YouTube videos uploaded to Canvas Studio need to have some option to carry over the subtitles from YouTube or even an option to manually type out subtitles. For personal videos, this isn't a problem, ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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I was disappointed to see that the "Text Headers" that you can add to modules are just spans, they aren't a heading tag. It would improve accessibility if these were heading tags There is "<h2 class="...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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The tabs solution does not work in global announcements, regardless of the discussions redesign feature preview being on or off. At our university we need to send global announcements in two languages...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Accessibility testers at our university found this user experience (UX) issue while conducting a thorough accessibility evaluation of Canvas. Description of problem: A UX issue that is not a failure o...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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There are many requests for Text to Speech for Accessibility in Canvas, but the reverse is needed as well.  We have found that students can use Speech to Text on Text Entry Assignment submissions usin...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Upon image upload, the alt-text associated with that image is entered. If the image is uploaded in My Files, and alt-text is associated with the image, that alt-text would be the default alt-text anyw...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Since accessibility is a major requirement. All video/audio recordings in Canvas should have automatic captioning.

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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