Introducing Pope Tech Instructor Accessibility Guide
Contents
Pope Tech Instructor Accessibility Guide is an interactive tool that helps you find and fix accessibility issues in your Canvas content. Examples are also provided to help guide you through creating more accessible content.
How is Pope Tech different from Ally?
Both tools improve course accessibility, but they each have different strengths. We currently recommend that you start with Pope Tech first to clean up image descriptions and other HTML issues in your Canvas materials, and then proceed to Ally to address issues with your PDF, Word, PowerPoint and other documents. Read more information on how Pope Tech and Ally work better together.
How does Pope Tech work?
The Pope Tech Instructor Accessibility Guide is integrated into the Canvas Rich Content Editor and fits right into your content creation workflow. When you are in edit mode, the Accessibility Guide button will appear at the bottom of any Page, Syllabus, Quiz description, Discussion topic, Assignment, or Announcement, next to the Cancel and Save buttons.
When you click the Accessibility Guide button, the Pope Tech Instructor Accessibility Guide will appear on a side-panel and will scan your content for accessibility issues and organize results by categories that are easy to understand.
Within each of these categories are results for common accessibility errors and guides for improving the accessibility of your content. Results are interactive and will highlight the corresponding Canvas content content when you click on a result icon.
Errors are results that are accessibility issues that need to be fixed.
Alerts are the results that are highly suspicious and should be reviewed for accessibility errors.- Manual check results will draw your attention to items that may not be errors but should still be reviewed for accuracy. For example, you can view your heading outline in the
Headers and Lists section or 
review all images' alternative text from the Images and Links section.
Each result also provides convenient tools to help fix the issue. Any edits or corrections you apply on the Accessibility Guide panel will pass through to your Canvas content, as if you had made the changes directly in the Canvas content editor.
Documentation and examples
Each result provides a helpful explanation about what that result means, why it matters, and how to fix it. Examples are also provided to illustrate how to correctly apply accessibility principles. To access documentation and examples, simply click the examples button on the desired result category.
Demo Video
The following video demonstrates how to use the Pope Tech Instructor Accessibility Guide to find and fix accessibility issues in Canvas.
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Where can I find help?
If you have questions or need assistance, you can request help.
On the Pope Tech Instructor Accessibility Guide:
- Click the Question Mark button in the upper-right corner. This will open a request form.
- Type your email address and a brief message or question.
- Click the Submit button.
PCC Online will respond to your request as soon as possible.