Accessibility Tools in Canvas  

Tools for Two Types of Scans

Type One: Entire site scans

There are two tools that scan entire Canvas sites. Once you run the scan, there are various methods to fix many of the issues---with Canvas content. (Uploaded documents need to be fixed separately.) The tools offer the ability to filter scan results for specific issues, such as severity level, and difficulty. They also provide helpful scores where you can see your improvement in real time. One recommended strategy is to choose one of the accessibility core areas and use the tools' filters to target that issue and resolve all instances, and then next time continue to another issue. The two tools for site scans with learning links are below. As shown, both of these tools are enables in Canvas Course Navigation Menu.

Type Two: Selected Content Scans

There are two tools that you can use in Edit mode of any Canvas content such as a page, assignment description, or announcement etc. These tools only scan and identify issues on that particular content. These are great to use any (and every) time you're creating new content or working on existing content. Make clicking one of these a part of your workflow. The three tools for selected content scans with learning links are below.

Intro to Selected Content Scan Tools

1: Ally Accessibility Checker

WebPage:(Vendor) Ally WYSIWYG Accessibility

2: Canvas Accessibility Checker

Video (2:25, Pope Tech) Canvas's built-in Accessibility Checker demo *Includes great demo of fixing color contrast.

Webpages:
(Vendor): How do I use the Accessibility Checker in the Rich Content Editor?
(UW IT) Overview: Accessibility tools in Canvas *Page has a section on this as well as other tools for accessibility in Canvas.