Welcome Week Presentation: Introduction to Accessibility in Canvas
Created For: Faculty Training and Workshops
Designed In: Canvas LMS
About: This presentation was created as part of the introductory welcome week faculty workshops, which typically occur the week before classes in August. Learning Design and Educational Technology wanted to spread awareness on how to use the accessibility tool Ally for faculty and staff, so a workshop and Canvas course were created. The main points addressed during the workshop were:
Why Ally?
What is Accessibility?
Lack of Accessibility in Action - Alternative Text and PDFS
How to Install Ally in Navigation
What Ally Scores are
Alternative Formats in Ally
Ally goals for the university.
Project Screenshot Examples
Attendees to the presentation were automatically enrolled in the Canvas course that was created and used for the presentation.
The presentation began by discussing what accessibility is, and why it is important.
An introduction the accessibility tool Ally was emphasized throughout the presentation.
Images were inserted in Canvas and attendees listened to the page. They tried to identify content that had proper alt text and no alt text.
A brief overview of Ally scores was explained to participants.