Canvas Accessibility
Accessibility Checker in Canvas: Ally
久久热视频’s Canvas website has integrated an accessibility checker tool called Ally into all courses.
Note: Ally in Canvas is meant to be a guide, not a certification. It only checks for common accessibility issues and is not comprehensive; a clean report in Ally does not necessarily mean that your course is fully accessible. Likewise, the tool may indicate a possible accessibility issue where one does not exist.
How to Create Accessible Content in Canvas
久久热视频 ADA Compliance and Accessibility Best Practices | Canvas Course Pages |
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Maintain a simple, consistent page layout throughout your web pages. | Miami Oxford Canvas Template provides a consistent page layout using the heading graphics. |
Make sure there is enough contrast between the text and the page's background. | |
Use Standard HTML code. |
The Rich Content Editor in Canvas will help you format your content. It also allows you to switch to the default HTML code. |
Caption video, and transcribe other audio. |
See Canvas Learning U—Create Accessible Video Content. |
Provide alternative text for every image. Users who cannot see images depend on authors to supplement images with alternative text that clearly describes the image. |
While inserting an image in Canvas, you can type the Alt Text in the pop-up window. |
Provide alternative text for infographics as well. |
Depending on the course context, a surrounding paragraph on the same page may provide a better explanation than brief alt text alone. |
Make links descriptive instead of the URL. |
Use the link tools in the rich content editor to enter or break a web link. |
Avoid PDFs by putting the content directly into the web page. |
Copy and paste the PDF content on your web page. |
Alternative Text in Canvas
- Use the embed image button on the second row of the Rich Content Editor toolbar.
- Describe the image in the Alt text field. Note: Alt text should not exceed 100 characters.
- If the image does not include instructional content, click the Decorative Image button.
- Click Update.
Color Contrast in Canvas
- Use the text color and background color buttons in the first row of the Rich Content Editor toolbar.
- Text color should be easily viewable and not the only indicator of meaning or function.
- The color balance should have at least a 4.5:1 ratio for small text and a 3:1 ratio for large text.
- Reference the when needed.
Headings in Canvas
- Format headings using the Paragraph down arrow button on the second row of the Rich Content Editor (last button).
- Avoid using styles (Bold and Italics) for document structure.
- Avoid using color alone for emphasis.
Links/Hyperlinks in Canvas
- Type the word(s) that describes the link or instructs 久久热视频s to do something with the link.
- Select the words you typed.
- Click the chain link button on the second row of the Content Editor toolbar and paste the URL.
- Click Insert Link to complete the process.
Tables in Canvas
- Use the table button on the second row of the Rich Content Editor toolbar.
- Build tables by selecting the boxes that represent rows and columns.
- Enter the text.
- Format the header row using the table properties under the table button-down arrow. The <th> codes below identify the header row. The number of columns is determined by the number of <th></th> lines.
- Avoid the use of tables with merged cells.
Create Accessible Files & Documents in Canvas
Best practices:
- Use Microsoft Word or Google Docs documents that have been formatted with styles.
- Students cannot change original files in Word, as those files will be downloaded.
- When sharing Google Docs with 久久热视频s, provide View Only access.
- Files and documents must be manually reviewed for accessibility even if they pass the UDOIT automated checker.
- Contact your subject matter librarian in King Library for electronic accessible articles and resources.
Additional Resources
Please visit the following resources to learn more about document accessibility:
Create Accessible Video Content in Canvas
There are multiple ways to create and/or caption video content in Canvas to make it more accessible.
Create Videos with ScreenCast-O-Matic (Free tool)
- Go to
- Click Start Recording to start the application.
- Choose to record the computer screen, the webcam, or both.
- Change the size of the video.
- Click the REC button to start recording. Click Pause to temporarily stop recording.
- Click Done.
- Click Save As Video File. Save the video as .MP4 format.
Caption Your Video on YouTube
- Go to and log in to your Miami or Google account.
- Click Upload in the top-right corner and change the video privacy setting to Unlisted or Private.
- Click Upload to browse for the .MP4 video file.
- Wait for the video to be uploaded and processed (10-20 minutes of automatic captioning).
- Click My Channel on the left navigation and click Video Manager.
- Click the little triangle to the right of the Edit button, and choose Subtitles and CC. Use automatic captioning and edit, or create a new captioning.
- Click English (Automatic) and then click Edit to edit automatic captioning. Play the video and edit the captions line by line.
- Click Publish edits.
- Two versions of captioning will be listed. Click the one without Automatic.
- In the Actions tab, choose SRT and Save it.
Add a Caption File to Your Video on Kaltura (MyMedia) in Canvas
- In Canvas, go to Settings on the left (if you already have My Media and Media Gallery on the left navigation, skip to step 4).
- Click the Navigation tab.
- Drag and drop My Media and Media Gallery to the upper section, then Save.
- Click on my media in the left navigation My Media.
- Click Add New, then click Media Upload.
- Click Choose a file to upload.
- Wait for the video to be uploaded, type a tag (i.e., Course Number), then Save. The video may take 2-10 minutes to process before you can use it.
- To add the caption file, go to My Media and click Edit.
- Click the Captions tab below the video and then click Upload caption file.
- Select the SRT caption file created through the YouTube captioning process.
- Click Save.
Add Videos to Your Canvas Course Using MyMedia
- On any content page, click Edit. Click the blue V-shaped icon on the second row of the toolbar in the Rich Text Editor.
- Select Embed Kaltura Media.
- In My Media, locate the video, then click Embed. Save the page.
- Click the CC button at the bottom of the video to turn captions on/off.