Blackboard LMS Content Accessibility

Improve the Accessibility of Your Course Content

The College has purchased the Ally accessibility tool for use in Blackboard LMS.

Blackboard Ally works seamlessly with Blackboard LMS to evaluate the accessibility of your content. Ally provides guidance and tips for improving your content accessibility.

  • Receive feedback on the accessibility of your content
  • Improve content accessibility with Ally's step-by-step instructions

In addition to providing you with insight to 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.

With a recent update, instructors can now run an Accessibility Report on their course content

This allows the instructor to see an accessibility rating for their course such as 55% or 85%, etc.  It then provides detailed information about what needs to be fixed and how to do so.  Each course has this Accessibility Report under their Control panel>course tools.

Screenshot showing the accessibility report link in Blackboard.

Example report below:

Screenshot of Accessibility report in Blackboard LMS.

Last Modified: 8/4/23