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Welcome to the Revamped Accessibility Community Group!
We’re excited to introduce the newly refreshed Accessibility Community Group—a dedicated place for educators, designers, and accessibility advocates to connect, share insights, and collaborate on all things accessibility. What’s New? We’ve made key updates to enhance your experience, including: Helpful Links & Resources –…
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Enhancing Accessibility in Education at Braille Institute
Braille Institute is a century-old organization dedicated to serving individuals experiencing vision loss. With a focus on accessibility and engagement, Braille Institute seeks to empower its diverse user base across seven centers in Southern California. By integrating Canvas LMS into its educational framework, Braille…
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Canvas for All | Strategies for Prioritising Accessibility
Accessibility is a necessary practice for ensuring our classrooms, courses and learning environments are inclusive to all learners. As our educational offerings become increasingly diverse, and the concept of a ‘traditional student’ is broadened, the importance of providing accessible learning experiences cannot be…
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Why Distance Learning is a Game Changer for People with Disabilities
Traditional education systems often pose obstacles for people with disabilities, making it difficult for them to access high-quality education. But time has changed now. The field of education has been undergoing changes, largely due to technological advancements. One of the most impactful changes has been digitalisation.…
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Accessibility in Online Course Design
Why Accessibility Matters in Course Design The Universal Design for Learning (UDL) approach is critical whether you teach entirely online, hybrid, blended, hyflex, or face-to-face classes. A good course starts with a road map and inclusive accessibility guidelines to ensure an optimal environment where teaching and…
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UDOIT 3.2.0 "June Park"
UDOIT 3.2.0 Release Notes The UDOIT developer community has been putting a lot of work into making UDOIT 3 more capable, easier to install, more stable, and easier to debug. This is a fairly large release, but here are the highlights: Issue Impact Filters You can now filter errors/suggestions by the type of disabilities…
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Navigating Canvas with JAWS
Navigating Canvas with JAWS JAWS is a commonly used accessibility screen reader and is one of the screen readers supported for use with Canvas. This post will discuss some basics of using JAWS with Canvas. Navigating through Canvas you can use JAWS shortcuts to locate, bypass, and select without having to move through all…
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Canvas x Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
Imagine this ...you walk into a clothes store and there is only one type of top and pants being sold. They are all the same size, colour, and material. Firstly, you can’t fit into the clothes, secondly, you don’t like the style and wouldn’t feel comfortable in it. Some friends walk into the same store, and they can fit…
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UDOIT 3.0.0 "Howey-in-the-Hills"
This is the first official open source release of the "Next Generation" UDOIT! It has been completely rewritten from the ground up to make it easier and faster to use. It's also more extensible, so we can more easily add new accessibility checks and other features. Cidi Labs put together a great overview video of UDOIT…
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UDOIT 2.8.0 "Gotha"
Release Information It's here! The final release of UDOIT 2. Don't worry, though! We are hard at work getting UDOIT 3 ready to go. As with all feature releases, the one is named after a small town in Central Florida. Gotha, FL was chosen because it is the final resting place of Bob Ross, who always reminded us that "There…
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UDOIT 2.7.0 "Frostproof"
This release is focused on improving the user experience. Cidi Labs contributed most of the code for this release in response to requests from their customers, and we are extremely grateful for this contribution. If you are attending CanvasCon next week, please visit them at their virtual booth! Now, on to the changes. The…
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UDOIT "Missing Session Information" Error in Chrome
A few institutions have contacted me over the last few weeks regarding an error they receive when launching UDOIT in Chrome. The full error is "Missing Session information. Please refresh the page. Missing: base_url". This issue has to do with how the latest version of Chrome handles cookies, and it was fixed in version…
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UDOIT 2.6.4
I'm back with another bugfix release! If you are able, it would be most helpful if you could update your QA or Testing instance of UDOIT to this version; the last few bugfix releases were made possible by institutions testing out the code in their unique environments. I greatly appreciate the help! Upgrade Instructions *…
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UDOIT 2.6.3 - PHP 7.3 Compatibility!
This release fixes a number of issues, both new and old. A huge thanks to escull for figuring out so many of these. If you've been having any trouble with tables, please test out this version and let me know if it your issues are resolved. Upgrade Instructions * Download UDOIT version 2.6.3 now! * Test in a development or…
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Keyboard Navigation & Microsoft Teams
Most of the functions in Microsoft Teams have a slightly different Keyboard Navigation method than most functionality within Canvas. Microsoft Teams will primarily use the Tab key to move between a group of objects, and then from that group, use the Arrow Keys to navigate within the controls of that group. However, if the…