Canvas Accessibility
There are multiple tools for helping you ensure that the content you make available through the Canvas learning management system can be perceived and understood by all users, including those with disabilities. Check out these resources to learn more:
Tools within Canvas
- Ally: This tool works within the Canvas LMS to test uploaded files for accessibility and allows students to download files in alternative formats that may be more accessible for them, such as EPUB, audio, and Braille.
Documents
Documents you provide to your students, such as Word, PowerPoint, Google Docs, or PDF files should also be accessible.
- Using Microsoft Office 365 Accessibility Checker
- Make your PowerPoint presentations accessible
- Make your Word documents accessible
- Grackle Suite: An accessibility testing tool for Google Suite Docs, Slides, and Sheets and creation of accessible PDFs.
- Use Acrobat Pro to create and Verify PDF accessibility
Videos
Videos used in your course should have captions, so that people who are deaf or hard-of-hearing have equal access. In addition, captioned videos are useful for all students. Panopto and YouTube can automatically create captions for you using speech recognition. Though not perfect, these automatically-generated captions are a good way to begin to meet this requirement.
- Captioning Panopto Videos
- Captioning YouTube Videos