[Athen] Accessibility Checkers for Canvas

[Scott Williams]

Hi Liz,

I have recommended to our IT department that we adopt UDOIT for our Canvas
implementation. I can vouch for the good folks at UCF, having worked
closely with them. They have been very helpful and knowledgeable. UDOIT
makes it extremely easy for faculty to fix basic but important
accessibility errors without intimidating them. I'm not so concerned about
running reports, and I have not looked at the Ally tool.

Best,

Scott

On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 6:08 PM, Prickett, Elizabeth <
Elizabeth.Prickett at victoriacollege.edu> wrote:


> Good evening!

>

>

>

> We are in the middle of transitioning to Canvas from Blackboard. We would

> like to utilize an accessibility checking tool as we review our online

> courses. I’ve talked with the folks who created UDOIT

> <https://online.ucf.edu/teach-online/resources/udoit/> at InstructureCon

> and they offer a lot of guidance on their pages. I know that someone on one

> of the listservs recently posted and inquiry about Ally – Making course

> content accessible <http://ally.ac/>, too, which seems like it may offer

> something similar.

>

>

>

> Has anyone tried Ally yet? Has anyone run a comparison of the two? I could

> be wrong, but UDOIT seems like a tool that would be more useful for

> instructors and guiding them to make courses more accessible, and the Ally

> tool may be better at running reports for admins. However, I’m not really

> sure since they (Ally) have such little info online. And, I’m definitely

> not sure how accurate an algorithm generated alt format is! Also, as far as

> I know, UDOIT is free, and I don’t know if the other tool is free or not.

>

>

>

> Thanks for any insight! Have an excellent week,

>

>

>

> Liz Prickett

>

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Scott Williams
Web Accessibility Coordinator
Office for Institutional Equity
University of Michigan
734.764.0051
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