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Canvas & Course Content Digital Accessibility

Canvas & Course Content covers a broad range of digital items including content built out in Canvas courses, PDFs, Word Docs, PowerPoints, Syllabi, online textbooks, external links and anything else that is linked within Canvas or digital content that is used to teach a course. 

Please review the training materials and tools below and intergrate them into your classes. 

Who is responsible?

Instructors, Deans, Department Chairs and Instructional Designers must ensure course content and Canvas comply with WCAG 2.1 AA. 

What do you need to know?

  1. Content

  2. Uploaded Content

  3. Videos

  4. Linked to outside sites

  5. Images

What could remediation workflow look like?

  1. Prioritize your own materials first. These will be the easiest items to fix because you have access to the original documents. 

What tools can you use to remediate content?

  1. UDOIT

  2. Microsoft Accessibility Checkers

  3. Adobe Acrobat PDF Accessibility Checker