The Ally Course Accessibility Report is placed on every course by default in the course templates.  It is typically towards the bottom of the list.

Click the item to open the report.

The report may not be present on your menu if you imported from a term where it was not active.  To add it

Step 1: Click on Settings (last item in the Course Menu)

Step 2: Click on Navigation Tab

Step 3: Locate the Ally Course Accessibility Report Item in the lower group

Step 4: Click the 3 vertical dots next to it

Step 5: Click Enable

The report is broken into three sections.

Section 1: Overview of Content in the Course -- This is all content -- not content that needs remediation.

Section 2: Includes buttons to fix the easiest issues and the low scoring content.

Section 3: Lists the issues by type in order of severity (Severe, Major, Minor)

Remediate according to priority -- Severe, Major, then Minor

Step 1: Click the start button for Fix the low scoring content

Step 2: Click the meter next to the document

Step 3: Review the Issue Dialog

Step 4: Click the All Issues button

Step 5: Click Fix Here on Any Items Listed and follow the dialogs.

Files retained in eCourses students should not longer access should be removed rather than remediated.  

Removing content from the modules will not remove it from the course.  Refer to our Guide on Removing Content from eCourses as needed.

Ally can only fully remediate content that is built directly into a Canvas HTML page (Announcements, Assignments, Discussions, Quizzes, Pages).  

Some issues created in PDFs can be addressed through Ally, but not all.  Many require the use of Adobe Acrobat Pro

Office files will require remediation in the creation file - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote.  

Refer to the guide that relates to your specific issue

• Remediating PDFs
• Remediating Office Products

Alternate Text is the most frequent accessibility issue in most classes.  It is identified by either of these error messages.

• This document contains images without a description
• The HTML content contains images without a description

Alternate text is an art.  Please refer to our Guide on Writing Quality Alternate Text for guidance on how to write it.

We also have a Technical Guide for Entering Alt Text in PDFS & Office Products

Ally can only detect missing captions.  It can not build them.  Video files require captions.  Audio files can have either captions or transcripts.

Canvas Studio adds captions via AI to all videos.  Please refer to our Guide on Using Canvas Studio to Add Captions for more information.