Ally for Accessibility
What is Ally?
Ally is a new Chapman service to help make course materials in Canvas more accessible. Ally provides faculty with feedback on the accessibility of course content in Canvas using a visual dial and provides suggested step-by-step instructions to improve the accessibility of the content.
Need help! 
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How can Ally help faculty and staff?
Ally provides guidance and tips for lasting improvements to the accessibility of your content.
Receive feedback on the accessibility of your content
Improve content accessibility with Ally’s step-by-step instructions
Provide students with accessible alternative formats such as audio and electronic braille
In addition to providing you with insight into your content accessibility, Ally automatically creates alternative versions of your files. This allows students to choose the type of file they want that best suits their needs. While you’re in the process of improving files, students still access alternative copies.
How can Ally help students?
How do you prefer to engage with digital learning content? Do you read on your phone or tablet, use a screen reader, like to annotate and highlight, or listen to an audio version? Ally automatically generates “Alternative formats” from your original course files and makes them available for download so that you can engage with course content in a way that works best for you.
Look for the downward-facing arrow next to documents in your Canvas course.
Choose the format that is right for you!
Want to see Ally in action? Watch the video below for directions on how a faculty or staff member can make a scanned pdf image accessible to students using Ally.