In the link to an external site (you tube, research paper, or something from within the files), the immersive reader appears to skip over that link? How do we ensure that the reader knows how to click and get through to the link?
I don't actually know the use case for Immersive Reader, except maybe as a convenience (for really long pages of text?). It is not robust enough to be a standard accessibility tool, because it doesn't let you interact with important things like links. If the student actually needs the reader to access the lesson, then a screenreader may be the answer. See this page on Canvas accessibility for the four screenreader and browser pairings they test. (JAWS is costly, but often subsidized for people with vision loss. The others should be free.)
For some print disabilities or literacy needs, Read and Write is the kind of program that may help, though I don't recall how it deals with links (it may depend on settings).
Does that answer your question? Or is there a different reason your student would need the Immersive Reader?
I don't think Immersive Reader can interact with hyperlinks. It is really just for displaying/playing the text on a page. This is a good quick overview of what it and cannot do, from the Accessibility Guy:
If you want links to read aloud in Immersive Reader, you would need to type the actual url on the page, in which case you should use a url shortener to try to make a descriptive link. It does read out loud, for example, an email address.
Thanks sbj. This solution would cause me to go into our entire program, over 200 Canvas pages, to edit more than 1000 links, so this is not a great solution—but I appreciate that answer to my question!
Are there other community / resource pages that outline Accessibility Standards and what Instructure is doing to support these issues? I suspect this is a complex and evolving issue. My searches haven't gotten me anything and the online chat is not helpful. For example, if a student needs to use a reader to access the lesson, how does SKIPPING the external links help the student? The Immersive Reader is skipping important content with no reference to it. Is this a bug or a technological lag? Does this conform with some standard somewhere?
If you are not the persons to answer these questions, would you be able to suggest another path to search? Thanks so much! kc
Thank you bwsf. This is helpful, especially the link to the Canvas accessibility page. I searched for this but didn't get to this page. I need answers to bring to my team and this will help.
Have a good spring—stay warm and dry. Cheers, kc
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