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Canvas Accessibility Tools

Canvas has several tools to support and encourage accessible content. It is important to be familiar with as many as possible and to use them regularly while working in Canvas.

Below are links to guides for a few of these tools.

TidyUP

TidyUP is a content cleanup tool for Canvas courses that provides a quick way to view all of the content in your course and clean out anything that is no longer needed. Identifying and deleting extra files, folders, pages, or assignments that are no longer needed makes your course easier to manage and more usable for everyone!

You can find more information on the TidyUP tool in this CidiLabs training course.

UDOIT

UDOIT – pronounced “You Do It” – stands for the Universal Design Online Inspection Tool.

UDOIT is a course level accessibility checker that scans online course content, identifies possible accessibility issues, and guides course designers and instructors in repairing those issues using inclusive design principles – all from within the UDOIT interface.

Learn more about UDOIT and how it can help create accessible content in the UDOIT CidiLabs training course.

Canvas RCE

The Canvas Rich Content Editor (RCE) appears in several places in Canvas for editing and formatting text. This allows you to add heading tags, insert videos and images, and generally give more structure and organization to your content. This tool also has its own accessibility checker. You can learn more about it and how to use it on the Canvas Community site.

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