Make Digital Course Content Accessible
Ally is a built-in accessibility tool within bCourses designed to help instructors create more inclusive and accessible courses. It supports both instructors and students by providing actionable feedback and alternative formats of course materials.
Ally also offers a comprehensive Course Accessibility Report, summarizing the overall accessibility of your course materials. This feature is enabled by default in bCourses. Ally’s course accessibility report includes Overview and Content tabs so that you can get the big picture as well as specific details about the accessibility of your digital course content.
- The Overview tab shows the accessibility score for the course, course content grouped by content type, and a list of all issues identified in the course.
- The Content tab shows you the content with accessibility issues.
The Ally tool also does the following:
- Allow students to automatically generate “Alternative Formats” for course files and bCourses Pages. Depending on the context, these formats can include Tagged PDF, HTML, BeeLine Reader, Electronic Braille, ePub, Immersive Reader, MP3, and translated versions.
- Provide instructors with accessibility scores alongside uploaded course documents and images so they can create more accessible content (note: students cannot see or access the accessibility scores).
- Review and remediate bCourses Page content using the WYSIWYG Instructor Feedback Tool
- Assess the accessibility of uploaded content based on WCAG guidelines
- Create an institutional report allowing UC Berkeley leadership to assess the accessibility of uploaded course documents over time.
- Translation of documents and bCourses Page content in over 70 languages.