[Athen] Canvas Accessibility

Terrill Thompson tft at uw.edu
Thu Jan 21 08:43:33 PST 2016


ATHEN has an active collaboration with Instructure, the maker of Canvas. If
you'd like to be involved in helping to ensure Canvas meets your
accessibility needs, let me know and we can add you to the Canvas course
where most of the collaborative work takes place.

Also, Hadi Rangin is currently leading a small team that is doing a
comprehensive accessibility evaluation of Canvas. Any evaluation is only a
snapshot since Canvas has a very rapid upgrade cycle and most upgrades
include fixes to accessibility bugs. Still, this evaluation will capture
the current state of Canvas accessibility. They'll be sharing their
findings at the CSUN conference:
http://www.csun.edu/cod/conference/2016/sessions/index.php/public/presentations/view/265

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 Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 8:23 AM, Zentz, Marlene <Marlene.Zentz at mso.umt.edu>
wrote:


> At Accessing Higher Ground this year, the UCF presenter said they’ve open

> sourced UDOIT. The code is on GitHub <https://github.com/ucfcdl/UDOIT> so

> if you have the expertise, it can be configured for other LMS’s.

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> Marlene Zentz

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> University of Montana

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> marlene.zentz at umontana.edu

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> *From:* athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu] *On

> Behalf Of *Jiatyan Chen

> *Sent:* Thursday, January 21, 2016 9:07 AM

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> *Subject:* Re: [Athen] Canvas Accessibility

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> On 2016 Jan 21, at 06:40, Susie Dunn <sdunn at southeast.edu> wrote:

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> UDOIT is only for Canvas, Correct?

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> Yes, only for Canvas.

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> It takes specific code and API to query an LMS to retrieve the necessary

> information about its content types. I've only heard of such content

> scanners built for 2 LMSes.

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> Jiatyan Chen

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