Blackboard Ally is a tool that helps you make your course content in Blackboard accessible to all users. It does this by: Automatically scanning course content and providing accessibility scores and feedback on how to improve the accessibility of the content.
Blackboard Ally for Websites helps your organization gain immediate insight into the accessibility of your website content and determine the best path forward to creating a more inclusive web environment.
Available at no cost with Blackboard Assist enabled. An Ally license is not required. It converts files to alternative, more accessible formats including HTML, ePub, electronic braille, audio, BeeLine reader and to a PDF that's undergone optical character recognition (OCR).
You can turn Ally on or off in every existing course from the Ally Configuration page. Select Disable/enable all courses and select Disable or Enable. Select Enable in future courses if you want Ally automatically on in all new courses.
Ally is a tool from Blackboard that integrates seamlessly with the UW's Canvas learning management system to automatically check accessibility of course content, including files uploaded by instructors.
Ally is an external tool integrated into Canvas that scans the content you have added to your course site and assigns it an “accessibility score.” Based on the score, your content will show an accompanying colored dial.May 29, 2020
Below are some suggestions for faculty that can help make a course more accessible for students within the Blackboard environment. Include alternative (alt) text for all non-textual items. Use descriptive names for file uploads. Consider your themes and backgrounds when designing your site and text formatting.
To access Blackboard Learn, first make sure you are using the recommended browser, Google Chrome or Mozilla FireFox.Go to the Blackboard Learn site.Enter your username and password. Your username is your 8-digit NWTC ID number. Your password is the password that you created upon registration.
Accessibility (often abbreviated to A11y — as in "a" then 11 characters then "y") in Web development means enabling as many people as possible to use Web sites, even when those people's abilities are limited in some way. For many people, technology makes things easier.Feb 18, 2022