Accessibility and Anthology Ally Resources

Overview

Anthology Ally is a tool designed to improve the accessibility of digital content in educational settings. It provides resources and support to help educators create more inclusive learning environments.

Key Features

- Accessibility Indicators: Visual indicators that show the accessibility level of course content.

- Alternative Formats: Provides students with various formats of course materials to accommodate different learning needs.

- Instructor Feedback: Offers actionable feedback to instructors on how to improve the accessibility of their content.

Benefits

- Enhances learning experiences for all students.

- Promotes compliance with accessibility standards.

- Supports diverse learning preferences and needs.

Accessibility Resources for Blackboard Ultra

A step-by-step walkthrough showing how to generate an accessibility report, identify content issues, and then apply fixes directly from the report into the document.

Learn how to edit alt text accessibility issues and add image descriptions within your Blackboard Ultra course shell.

Discover how to find images with contrast issues, follow tips to make edits and reupload the images to improve your accessibility score.

This guide demonstrates how to use Blackboard Ally together with Microsoft Word to add and structure headings in your documents for improved accessibility.

A quick walkthrough showing how to fix table header issues in a document—ensuring table rows and columns are correctly identified so assistive technology can interpret them effectively.

A straightforward guide to tagging a PDF for accessibility—showing how to use tools like Adobe Acrobat Pro to add or fix the tag structure, alt text, headings, and document properties so screen readers and assistive technology can properly interpret the content.

A clear how-to guide on applying OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to scanned course content in Blackboard Learn so that text becomes selectable, searchable, and screen-reader-friendly.

Learn how to tag a PDF in Adobe Acrobat so it’s readable by screen readers and meets accessibility standards in Ally.