Advice for Accessibility audit across the school

[EWANZ]

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 whole of school report for accessibility standards and support.

If anyone has done something similar in the past or has any ideas I would appreciate any advice on methodology or tools. (even those beyond Canvas)

Thanks

[Chris_Hofer]

@EWANZ ...

Check out UDOIT and Cidiscape from Cidi Labs.  UDOIT scans entire courses, and if you are a Cidi Labs customer, then you can get Cidiscape for free.  Cidiscape is an admin tool that integrates with Canvas, and you can set up "batches" of courses...and it will scan all courses in the "batch" with UDOIT...pretty much exactly what you are looking for.

[John__Lane]

We use Blackboard (Anthology) Ally.  It has an institutional report that Canvas Admins can run.   It's a pretty comprehensive report and can easily be shared with your leadership.  

~JL

[paul_fynn]

We are also on Ally, and whilst we have our grumbles about it it has a lot to recommend it (a current issue is that after where you are rolling over legacy content from A to B and update the imported accessibility in B, when you subsequently roll over to C it reverts to the content version from 'A' - a back to the future problem that needs discussion between Ally and Instructure to sort out).

I've only recently discovered a difference between the Canvas Course level options and the Canvas Sub Account options for Ally. With the latter it is possible to look up a specific course and download a detailed list of all content including accessibility issues - a bit of judicious VLOOKUP in Excel to join the New Analytics report and you can work out whether the affected content is getting any traffic or could just be deleted.

Improvements would be

• ability to delete content with low accessibility score straight from the Ally interface
• deal with the back to the future problem
• allow teachers to download a content listing with accessibility from within their course
• allow admins to download a listing of all files and their accessibility scores at account/sub account level
  • Our most common issues (after properly formatting teacher content are
    • third party content including journal articles loaded as scanned pdfs
    • Speedgrader versions of student work loaded as exemplars without resolving accessibility
    • formulas and architectural content

[LauraF1]

I believe there are four options from third-party vendors:

• YuJa Panorama for Digital Accessibility
• Anthology (Blackboard) Ally
• uDoIt
• Popetech Canvas LMS Accessibility