Accessibility Resources for Faculty

Viewing an Individual Item

To view the accessibility of an individual item within a course, in the Content Area listing, note that to the right of the title of your files, there are Accessibility score indicators, seen in the image below inside red boxes.

The color of the Accessibility score indicators displays the number and severity of issues in a document. See more in the Accessibility Scores article on Blackboard Help Center

Clicking on the gauge icon displays a panel on the right side of your screen. This panel provides current information about the file and gives information and options about how to fix any issues.

You can find more information in the Blackboard's Ally Quick Start for Instructors.

Course Accessibility Report (Viewing All Items)

To view the accessibility of every item, do the following. Along the right side of your screen, you will see a Details and Actions list. Under the Books & Tools heading, click on the View Course & Institution tools link. On the pane that appears, select Accessibility Report. Both steps are outlined in red in the image below.

This is a more comprehensive view. You can see all your files. The image below cover.

There are different parts of the overview. In the top left, we see the rate of accessibility for the whole course. In this case, it is 91%. Below that, we see the breakdown of what types of files are in this course. In this example, we see that Ally has identified a total of 94 documents in the course, found in the middle of the pie graph. Most of these files have no accessibility issues. The document type that appears most often in this course is the Ultra-native documents (authored directly in the LMS). There are 40 such documents.

To the right of that, we see, on the top high-scoring content we can fix. These would include items close or very close to being fully accessible. If you are new to remediating, or fixing, documents, these files would be a good place to start learning how to fix documents that should require only a minimum amount of work.

Below that are the documents with major issues; these documents are furthest from being accessible and often require more work than other documents, yet they are the ones with the biggest payoff once fixed.

Finally, towards the bottom of the page are the first two entries of a list of items that need to be fixed.

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