Creating Accessible Canvas Courses

This self-guided tutorial has been designed to provide you with basic information for creating accessible Canvas courses.

Topics

•  Accessibility Basics 
  Principles around making digital content and media accessible.
•  Tools 
  Overview of Canvas tool accessibility and best practices.
•  Learning Tool Integration (LTI)
  Description, benefits  and best practices.
•  Rich Content Editor
  Creating accessible content and considerations for use of the editor in assignments.
•  Documents
  Core skills for making course materials - documents, presentations/slides and media - accessible.
•  Tables
  Improving table accessibility, Indicating row and column headers and identifying header "scope."
•  Quizzes
  Best practices, cautions, timed test considerations and adjustments.
•  Resources
  Links to tools for accessibility testing and remediation, UMN accessibility-related Web resources and Microsoft guides by disability type and their impact on digital access.
•   Keyboard-only Navigation
  overview of Canvas keyboard shortcuts for Course Creators and Students.