Blackboard Seeks Feedback on Ally Course Accessibility Report Short survey available to improve reporting features

Blackboard is currently working on improving the Ally Course Accessibility Report. They are collecting feedback from users in a short survey to understand how you use it, what’s working well, and what could be improved. 

If you are interested in sharing your thoughts on the Ally Course Accessibility Report, please Take the Survey. Your feedback will directly help Blackboard make the survey more useful and easier to navigate.

Dashboard screenshot showing Algebra 1 course accessibility score at 72% with a pie chart detailing 31 course content items by type, including PDF documents, Word documents, images, presentations, quizzes, pages, syllabus, and assignments. Additional panels highlight 8 content items with easiest issues to fix, 6 low scoring content items needing fixes, and a remaining issue indicating one document scanned but not OCRed.

Image: Dashboard screenshot showing Algebra course accessibility score at 72% with a pie chart detailing course content items by type.

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The USM Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation will host monthly remediation sprints to tackle one essential step of digital accessibility each month. These sprints, hosted on Zoom, will include a short overview of one step from the Digital Accessibility 6 Essential Steps, created by the University of Maryland, College Park, and then active work time to remediate your own documents.

Headings Sprint
Monday, September 8 (2-3 pm)
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Links and Navigation Sprint
Monday, October 6 (2-3 pm)
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Color and Contrast Sprint
Monday, November 10 (2-3 pm)
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Images Sprint
Monday, December 8 (2-3 pm)
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Tables and Data Sprint
Monday, January 12 (2-3 pm)
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Multimedia Sprint
Monday, February 9 (2-3 pm)
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Sprint to Finish
Monday, March 9 (2-3 pm)
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Campus representatives from the USM Digital Accessibility Work Group may offer additional sessions throughout the month.

NOTE: Since these sprints are meant for faculty and staff at institutions of higher education in the state of Maryland, please register with your UMBC email address.

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