[Athen] Canvas LMS Accessibility

[Terrill Thompson]

Hi Jeff,

Sorry for the slow reply. ATHEN has an active collaborative relationship
with Instructure to work on accessibility of Canvas. We currently do most
of our communicating via the Discussion Forum in a Canvas course, as well
as in standing teleconferences that take place about once per month. We've
been working for about a year logging reports of specific accessibility
issues and discussing those issues amongst ourselves and with Canvas
representatives. Ultimately most of these issues get translated into bugs
that are filed internally at Instructure, and many of these bugs have been
fixed. The product still has accessibility problems, but I've been
impressed with their responsiveness and am optimistic that they will
continue to improve.

Our group includes Canvas customers as well as potential customers. Let me
know if you'd like to participate and I'll add you to our Canvas course.

Regards,
Terrill

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Terrill Thompson
Technology Accessibility Specialist
DO-IT, Accessible Technology Services
UW Information Technology
University of Washington
tft at uw.edu

On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Bishop, Jeff - (jeffbis) <
jeffbis at email.arizona.edu> wrote:


> Hello Everyone,

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> I know there has been some traffic on this subject in the distant past but

> I thought I would restart a thread on this topic. We are beginning the

> early stages of evaluating Canvas here at the University of Arizona. Where

> do people think the current state of Canvas is as it relates to

> Accessibility with JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver and other AT related technologies?

> I am looking for both positive and trouble areas of Canvas to get a better

> picture. I am trying to get access to a demo instance to do some of my own

> testing but any feedback here would be hugely helpful.

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> Thank you everyone.

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> Jeff Bishop

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