Improving Accessibility Through The Use Of Ally: Learn Original Instructors

Nathan Atkinson

What is the purpose of this campaign?

Ally accessibility tool strives to ensure digital content is inclusive towards all students, by converting course files into a variety of formats. The purpose of this campaign is to highlight how easy it is for instructors to make small but significant changes to resources to make them more accessible. Course reports are also highlighted, to show instructors how to prioritize fixes.

 

Tool categories

🔧 The 'Ally (Accessibility)' tool category should be toggled on to display the content of this campaign before you import it. Click here to find out how to manage tool categories in your dashboard.

 

Message Placement

📌 The Course Tools Menu Item         📌 Tab My Institution                         📌Ally alternative formats download button      
Hint Pop-up Hint 

📌Ally accessibility course reports     📌Medium orange score icon           📌 View Module Page 
   page (Original)                                   📌Low accessibility score icon
Systray Hint Systray         

 

Support Articles

Please note when you preview the articles, they appear all together on Blackboard help. They have been created as separate articles in your Impact support Center for your convenience.

• What alternative formats does Ally generate?

• Watch a video about managing Alternative formats

• Watch a video about File accessibility

• Learn more about accessibility with Ally (Custom Impact article)

• Preview the document in the Ally feedback panel

• Enable disabled alternative formats

• Disabled alternative formats

• Course Accessibility report

• View File Accessibility 

• Choose what to fix first

• Accessibility scores

• Accessibility score icons

How can the impact of this campaign be measured?
Campaign engagement
Views on messages & links on support included inside messages
Views on support articles included in this campaign

Average tool adoption
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