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Tools for Testing Accessibility

Blackboard Ally

Blackboard Ally works seamlessly with Blackboard to gauge the accessibility of your content.  Ally provides guidance and tips for lasting improvements to your content accessibility.

  • Receive feedback on the accessibility of your content
  • Improve content accessibility with Ally's step-by-step instructions

In addition to providing you with insight to your content accessibility, Ally automatically creates alternative versions of your files. This allows students to choose the type of file they want that best suits their needs. While you're in the process of improving files, students still access alternative copies.

Color Contrast Tools

WebAIM Contrast Checker

WAVE Tool Chrome Extension

Microsoft Accessibility Checker (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)

Before sending your Outlook email message or sharing your Word document, Excel spreadsheet, or PowerPoint presentation, run the Accessibility Checker to make sure your Microsoft 365 content is easy for people with disabilities to read and edit. To find out which apps have the Accessibility Checker, go to Make your content accessible to everyone with the Accessibility Checker. 

Screen Reader Testing

JAWS

NVDA

VoiceOver for Mac's

 

 

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