Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). It’s a day dedicated to getting everyone talking, thinking, and learning about digital access and inclusion. To celebrate, let’s explore some fantastic tools that can help you create content accessible to as many people as possible.
Enhancing Accessible Learning: Exploring Blackboard Ally’s Alternative Formats
What is Ally? Ally is a tool available on all Blackboard modules that aims to automate the “accessibility process” in order to ensure that the content being uploaded to your Blackboard module is inclusive for all learners. Ally does two
Ensuring Accessible Course Content: Blackboard Ally Accessibility Report
Blackboard Ally, is a tool designed to enhance accessibility in course content, offers a comprehensive Accessibility Report that empowers instructors to create more inclusive learning resources. Explores Ally’s main features some common issues identified, and strategies for rectifying accessibility barriers highlighted in the Accessibility Report.
Blackboard Ultra Ally
What is Ally? Ally is a tool available on all Blackboard modules that aims to automate the “accessibility process” in order to ensure that the content being uploaded to your Blackboard module is inclusive for all learners. Ally does two
Driving digital teaching excellence through accessibility and inclusive academic practice
Ally is a unique way of improving the accessibility of your online teaching materials. Integrating seamlessly with Blackboard Ultra, it: supports the University in meeting its responsibilities under accessibility requirements for public sector websites; and allows students to access their learning materials
Driving digital teaching excellence through accessibility and inclusive academic practice
SLAR has just launched Ally – a unique way of improving the accessibility of your online teaching materials. Integrating seamlessly with Blackboard, it: supports the University in meeting its responsibilities under the new accessibility requirements for public sector websites; and
Helpful Online Learning Resources for Semester One – Part 2
Earlier this year, educators needed to rapidly adapt to remote learning as lockdown forced institutions online and required tutors to replace their normal face-to-face teaching model. Effective online learning and teaching require advance planning, flexibility, accessibility, and engagement from all
Accessibility Guidelines for Learning and Teaching Resources
These step by step guides will help everyone meet the requirements of the new accessibility regulations with comprehensive advice. Guidance covers accessibility features of various tools available to us all and simple techniques we can use to ensure resources are accessible as possible.
Accessibility Help Guides
We now have a comprehensive set of accessibility guidelines to help you meet accessibility requirements. Today we introduce new guidance on creating accessible visual data. These step by step guides will help everyone meet the requirements of the new accessibility
Accessibility Help Guides: Accessible Media Part 2 – Captions
The following guides give practice advice on how to enable and edit captions with University video platforms. Captions in ReView (Panopto) Captions in Microsoft Teams Live Captions in Blackboard Collaborate Previously we shared guidance on creating accessible video and what