There is an integrated tool directly in Canvas that analyze the accessibility on course sites against the standard WCAG 2.1 AA and helps to better the contents accessibility. This tool offers advice and step- for step-instructions for teacher that wants to better their accessibility in the course. The points indicates how accessible the material is.

To get feedback on accessibility

Click on the meter which is next to an uploaded file to open up a document with the tool.

Step one to get feedback on accessibility.

Afterwards, there will open a document with this preview.

Step two to get feedback on accessibility.

Click on What this means to get an explanation from an accessibility perspective.
Click on All issues and take note of the instructions step by step to better the documents accessibility.
When you have made your changes, upload the new version of the document. You can do this by clicking on Browse and chose the new version.
Done!

Overview

If you click on your accessibility report you will get to an overview of accessibility in the entire course. From this page you can click on the different documents to reach the view where you get feedback on accessibility. Below the heading Content you have all the documents in a list where you can sort them by accessibility points.

This is a photooverview of the accessibility report.

Disable alternative format

You can disable the possibility for the student to download the alternative format. You will do this the same way if you want to activate it again. Go to the current document and click on Alternative formats.

This picture illustrates how to remove alternative format on documents.

Click on the arrow next to the headline to get to the disable option.

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Then it will look like this:

This is a picture showing that alternative formats for a specific file is disabled.

For students

The students will not be able to see the accessibility points and tool. Instead, the accessibility tool will automatically create alternative versions of your files. This enables the participants to choose which type of file that is best suited for their needs, for example a textfile will be converted to a soundfile.