The Ally course accessibility report is a tool to give you an overview of your course's accessibility and provides with you with step-by-step guides for how to correct issues with your content.

Screenshot of course accessibility report in a Canvas course

Who can see the Ally course report?

The Ally course report is only visible to employees with access to the Canvas course, as well as Canvas administrators. Students do not see the course report.

Where can it be found?

The Ally course report can be found in the Canvas room's left-hand menu, called "Ally Course Accessibility Report".

Screenshot of Canvas course including course menu where the link to the Ally course report can be found

What can it be used for?

The course report gives you an overview of your content's accessibility and provides with you with step-by-step instructions for how to correct issues in your content.

1. Accessibility overview

The course report shows you the types of content in your course, and the overall score for the course.

Statistics and graph of all content types in the course

2. Improve accessibility in your content directly from the course report

Fixing issues with Ally is easy. Issues are listed under Remaining Issues in the course report in order of priority from severe to minor. Those at the top of the list should be addressed first. Ally looks at the number of students impacted, how often the issue occurs, and the accessibility score to determine the priority.

Severe: These issues are the greatest risk to accessibility and require the most attention.
Major: These issues impact accessibility, and while not severe, require attention.
Minor: These issues should be considered for a better accessibility score.

You can also use the course report to help you decide what to fix first:

Content with the most severe issues have the lowest scores. These issues may take more time to fix, but fixing these will have the most impact for your students.
Content that's easiest to fix can be fixed in a minute or less and often directly in Ally.

Screenshot of course report with buttons to start fixing either the lowest scoring content or the easiest to fix issues

Start fixing issues with Ally

How to correct accessibility issues with Ally