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Webinar Recording & Savings Calculator - CSN Archives 75% of its Canvas courses and saves $19.7M in
For those who weren't able to attend the EDCUCAUSE webinar presented by the College of Southern Nevada (CSN), Instructure, and K16 Solutions, you can access the recording here. CSN discusses how they are using Canvas Archiving powered by K16 Solutions to expedite WCAG 2.1 compliance by archiving 75% of its courses,…
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Accessibility
I have been enjoying the opportunity to explore and learn more about what is actually going on here.T I am still in the process of learning more from the community. I have learned more about user experience thanks to my community team.
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Archiving for WCAG Compliance - College of Southern Nevada Webinar
Hi Everyone, Join the College of Southern Nevada on March 27th at 12:00 ET / 9:00 PT for an exclusive EDUCAUSE webinar to learn how they leveraged Canvas Archiving to efficiently meet WCAG accessibility requirements while improving LMS data management. In this session, CSN leaders will share their approach to: ✅…
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Accessibility in Classic Quizzes vs New Quizzes
Hello Instructure Community, My team came across this comparison chart for features in Classic Quizzes vs New Quizzes https://docs.google.com/document/d/11nSS2EP0UpSM6dcuEFnoF-hC6lyqWbE9JSHELNmfG2A/preview?tab=t.0#heading=h.tgr5djifqvtf Unfortunately, accessibility or accessibility features are not included in the…
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Colour contrast accuracy in Ally
Hi there, my Learning Design team is aiming to improve our accessibility practices and I've been using Canvas Ally tool to check the contrast between emphasis boxes and link text in our organisation's CSS. Ally has been flagging a lot of instances of contrast being lower than 4.5:1 for normal text (as per WCAG Level AA…
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Share your favorite accessibility tools!
I would love to hear from the group: What are your favorite tools for ensuring accessible content? Please share by replying below. 😊
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What challenges do you face while making learning accessible? 📚✨
Ensuring courses are accessible to all learners is essential, but that mindset comes with challenges. What are the biggest obstacles you or your organization faces in making learning truly inclusive? How do you navigate accessibility concerns, and what strategies have helped you create more equitable learning experiences?…
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Keyboard navigating course menu - access keys
A question for users who solely navigate by keyboard, are there access keys or alike available to jump to the start of a course menu? There is a 'skip to content' link available, which sends focus to the course content but also skips past the course navigation. So if a user wants to skip over the Canvas navigation directly…
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Tables in Canvas Pages
Odd thing... We have some Canvas generated tables on a page. We save them. We look at them as a student. We put the cursor in the first cell block. We then try to tab from cell to cell to test keyboard accessible functionality. But rather than tabbing cell to cell, it jumps us to the Next Page button (skipping the entire…
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Accessibility - Bold content for screen readers
Hi, I'm looking to make my courses more accessible for those with screen readers. For bolded text, do I need to embed before and after the already bolded text, or does Canvas already do this automatically? Thank you.
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How to Report Canvas Accessibility Issues via Email
Hey all, I posted this a few days ago in a different topic and it is getting some likes, so I thought it might be good to move the information to a separate topic so that it might be easier to find. (To hopefully be clear--since this message was marked as spam almost immediately after it was posted--I'm not posting this…
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Advice for Accessibility audit across the school
Hi everyone, I've been asked to undertake an accessibility audit across all of our courses and report on how well, or badly, we are supporting students with accessibility needs. I know that you can run a 'report' on each page for accessibility but can't find anything which would allow a course by course, (or ideally!) a…
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Exploring AI-Powered Solutions for Enhancing Accessibility in Education, Work, and Daily Life
I was wondering, how others in the community are preparing for AI integration (thinking Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) and accessibility compliance. Do you have any thoughts or suggested tools?
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Gradebook Statuses Accessibility on ScreenReaders
I am wondering if anyone knows how the colors of gradebook statuses work on screenreaders. When the screenreader reads the cell of a colored cell, does it indicate the status (ie - late, missing, resubmitted)? How are the colors/statuses indicated?
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Getting Aquainted
Grand Salutations To Everyone and Happy New Year!!! I am excited to discover all there is to uncover in this forum. Please share all suggestion to receive my badges!! Respectably!