Ally Information

Ally is Xavier's new accessibility tool that works seamlessly in your Canvas courses to gauge the accessibility of your course content. With Ally, you can make your course content accessible by all students, including ones with identified disabilities. Ally highlights accessibility issues in your pages, assignments, and files and then provides guidance and tips for lasting improvements to your content accessibility. 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.

Main benefits of Ally:

Delivers guidance to instructors to improve the accessibility of their course content
Automatically checks course materials against WCAG 2.1 accessibility standards
Provides students with accessible alternative formats such as audio and electronic braille

Instructional Design & Technology's Ally Guide

Ready to get started? Click here first to open IDT's Ally Guide in a new tab. This one-page guide provides an overview of the important things you need to know about Ally, and it shows you how Ally will appear in your Canvas courses. After reviewing the guide, you can switch back to this tab and explore the resources below.

Ally's Instructor Training

For detailed information about Ally, see the resources below from Anthology.

Ally Videos

When playing each video below, you can enable full-screen by clicking the "full screen" square button at the bottom-right corner of the player.

Explainer - The Challenges of Accessibility (3:06)

(explains the challenges of accessibility and how Ally can help)

Ally Overview for Instructors (1:28)

(provides an instructor overview of Ally for Canvas)

Additional Resources

General Resources

Ally Help for Instructors - knowledge base full of common questions and issues
Ally Instructor Package - extensive PDF document with information to help you become an Ally to inclusive learning
Ally Accessibility Checklist
Ally Instructor FAQs
Ally Troubleshooting

Special Topics

Support, Feedback, and Community

Student Resources

Ally Help for Students - knowledge base full of common questions and issues
Ally Student FAQs - frequently asked questions by students