Blackboard today introduced Blackboard Ally for Web, a solution for assessing and improving the accessibility of institutions' websites. The tool expands on Blackboard's Ally product (launched last ...

IBM has rolled out an update to its open source web Accessibility Checker tool to make it easier to find and fix accessibility issues. The upgrade is designed to coincide with Global Accessibility ...

I’ve written here on the blog about ADA compliance, also known as 508 compliance, or more broadly, as web accessibility. My daughter is blind, and because of that, her online experience often suffers ...

The WebCampus rich text editor used for course pages, assignments, quizzes, discussions, etc. has a built-in accessibility checker. This checker is automated to alert you to potential accessibility ...

The founders of Yoast SEO plugin announced an investment in a WordPress accessibility plugin that scans and reports on accessibility issues and makes it easy to troubleshoot entire websites. Making a ...

Microsoft Word documents can be made accessible with proper headings, built-in numbered or bulleted lists, descriptive links, adding alternative text to images and adding headings to tables. This will ...

PDF files have been a convenient way to deliver print documents online, but they remain a challenge to make accessible. Problems include: The difficulty and cost of making PDF files accessible (Penn ...

These guidelines apply to any content you place on the web, including Word and PowerPoint documents, PDFs, web pages, video, and audio files. All PDFs that are for instructional purposes, internally ...

Navigating a Successful Higher Ed AV/IT RFP Process: Part IV ...