Improve Course Content Accessibility

Ally is a tool available within Blackboard that provides insight into the accessibility of course materials and content and populates alternative materials for students.


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Getting Started with Ally


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Alternative Formats

Ally generates alternative formats for students to download. These can include audio or electronic braille versions of existing course content.

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Accessibility Scores

Ally provides accessibility scores to instructors to review. Ally also measures each file attached to the course and assigns them a score depending on how accessible the file is. Once you have located the accessibility score for a piece of content, you can begin to explore accessibility issues and improve the content to raise the score.

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Course Accessibility Report

Provide instructor feedback on how to improve your accessibility score: Each file that requires improvements is provided a guide which allows course instructors and teaching assistants to make any changes necessary to improve that file.

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Feedback Panel

Provide instructor feedback on how to improve your accessibility score: Each file that requires improvements is provided a guide which allows course instructors and teaching assistants to make any changes necessary to improve that file.

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Helpful Solutions for Common Accessibility Issues

The following resources aim to provide targeted guidance to fix common accessibility issues found within Blackboard courses by leveraging Ally.

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Additional Resources

Ally is just one tool to use to assess and improve content accessibility and you may need to make improvements to files outside of Blackboard.

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