Digital Accessibility

Accessibility Tools Overview

To help faculty learn how to make their course materials more accessible to students, we have created a short video covering the accessibility tools available in Blackboard, Kaltura, and Microsoft Office.

• Accessibility Tools Video

Blackboard Accessibility

Ally is a separate product integrated within Blackboard with the purpose of checking course materials to ensure they meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Ally is available for Original and Ultra courses.

• Ally Starter Guide
• Blackboard Official Ally Support Page

Kaltura Accessibility

Kaltura Capture uses Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) captioning, which produces a text file that is then associated with media (video or audio) in Kaltura Capture.

• Ordering Captions Using Kaltura Capture

Microsoft Office Accessibility

The Accessibility Assistant can be used to identify issues with document accessibility.

• Using the Accessibility Assistant in Microsoft Office
• Video: Add Alt Text in Microsoft Word
• Video: Add Alt Text in Microsoft Word (version for smartphone viewing)
• Video: Add Alt Text in Microsoft PowerPoint
• Video: Add Alt Text in Microsoft PowerPoint (version for smartphone viewing

Adobe Acrobat Accessibility

Adobe Acrobat allows you to add alt text to your PDF documents.

• Video: Add Alt Text in Adobe Acrobat
• Video: Add Alt Text in Adobe Acrobat (version for smartphone viewing)