UiO wants to be a place of study for all and to offer education of the highest quality. Therefore it is important that all users have accessible digital content. With Ally you get the support you need to understand common accessibility problems and make substantial improvements to your Canvas content.
What does Ally do?
- Built-in tool that gives you feedback on the accessibility of your Canvas content, step-by-step guides in Ally on how to improve accessibility, and a good overview of accessibility issues.
- Can be used with documents (PowerPoint, PDF and Word), images, pages, assignments, quizzes, announcements and discussions in Canvas.
- Gives Canvas administrators department/faculty reports with statistics and an overview of the accessibility issues for a given unit.
- Offers students alternative formats to their content in Canvas.
Who do I contact?
Questions about Ally can be directed to your Canvas contact points at your faculty.
Other resources for accessibility
- Accessible content in Canvas
- Design elements in Canvas (in Norwegian only)
- UiO's guide about universal design of web content and teaching materials
- UiO's short online course Ally - improve the accessibility of your Canvas content (uio.instructure.com)
- Short online course Universal design of webpages and documents (in Norwegian only, uio.instructure.com)