The same best practices that make your websites and documents accessible also work on Canvas (and if you copy content from an accessible document and paste it into Canvas you’ll be off to a great start.)
Humans for the win
Automated tools like Panorama and the Canvas Accessibility checker can be a great help, but even the best automatic accessibility checkers can only detect about 30% of errors. Doing accessibility well still requires human judgment.
Common Accessibility topics for courses
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Alt Text for Complex Images/ Data Visuals
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Alternative (Alt) text
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Audio description
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Captions & Transcripts (live)
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Captions & Transcripts (prerecorded)
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Documents (PDF)
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Documents (STEM)
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Documents (Word, Docs)
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How To: Automatically capture Zoom transcript
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How to: Set up Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) services
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Presentations
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Spreadsheets
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Tables
Find more tools and guidance at the University of Michigan Digital Accessibility website.