Accessibility Checker Tool

Canvas’s Rich Content Editor includes a tool that checks for common accessibility errors in typed or copied content. The Accessibility checker is to the right of the text styling options.

Screenshot of the Canvas Accessibility Checker button
 

NOTE: Canvas’s accessibility tool cannot check content outside its Rich Content Editor, such as attached Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, and PDFs.

Canvas reports the number of issues with explanations, and the option to fix the problem:

Figure 1. A screenshot of the Accessibility Checker's summary. This illustrates that there are five issues in the example with the explanation that "Lists should be formatted as lists". A question mark icon indicates there's a full explanation of the issue. To remediate the issue, there's a checkbox to allow Canvas to format the list. Below are three buttons for Previous, Next and Apply.
Figure 1: Accessibility Checker Summary

 

Figure 2. A screenshot showing the detailed explanation linked from the question mark icon in figure 1.
Figure 2: Full Explanation of Issue

 

When no issues exist, Canvas reports with a happy graphic.

Screenshot of the Accessibility Checker's happy graphic indicating no accessibility issues.

Contributed by Cheryl Ryan, Instructional Media Designer at NIC's eLearning Department.

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