10.5 Canvas Page Accessibility

Use proper heading levels and text formatting styles. Limit the use of color. Include ample white space.

Points: 3 (Essential)

QM Alignment: 8.3

Overview

Using text headers to begin sections rather than merely making text bold or a different color. Screen readers allow for users to quickly move between headers. Ensure that headers are logically and hierarchically organized.

Canvas Accessibility Checker

Tips

• When editing pages and descriptions of activities with the Canvas rich content editor, use text headers to start new sections instead of simply making the text bold or a different color, to be more accessible to screen readers.
  • Use the Canvas Accessibility Checker when editing pages and activity descriptions to check for other accessibility issues.
• Stick with the built-in text fonts and colors, or else choose sans-serif fonts and high contrast colors.
• Ensure text has proper grammar, spelling, reading level, and uses plain language.
  • Tools like the LanguageTool or Grammarly can assist with this.
• View your course in the Canvas Student app to ensure that it is accessible to students who access it that way. UCF found that 80% of students access their courses via this app every week.

Resources

• Canvas General Accessibility Design Guidelines
• Canvas Accessibility Checklist
• Canvas Accessibility Checker
• Blackboard Ally
• Review the Accessibility Training and Resources SharePoint Site.