As of June 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Americans with Disabilities Act requires all digital course content to meet Web Content Accessibility standards. Faculty may use Ally to scan, prioritize, and address accessibility challenges in course content.
Accessibility is term defining the quality of a product or service's usability. Ally is a tool integrated with Blackboard Ultra course and master shells. Faculty use Ally to proactively improve the accessibility of uploaded documents, images, text, and tables with built-in feedback and support. Students can also use Ally to download alternative document formats for their ease of use. If you have any questions about Ally, contact onlinelearning@matc.edu.
Removing accessibility barriers directly improves student engagement. Through Ally, students can download your content in various Alternative Formats to suit their specific learning needs, including HTML, ePub, Electronic Braille, MP3 audio, beeline reader, immersive reader, and machine translation into over 70 languages.