Anthology Ally
What is Anthology Ally?
Anthology Ally is a content accessibility service that guides instructors on how to improve the accessibility of their course content and alter future behavior. Anthology Ally also automatically checks for accessibility issues and generates alternative accessible formats.
Getting Started
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Using Anthology Ally for Brightspace (2.09 Min)
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How to access your Ally report (0.43 min)
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Ally Course report structure explained (1.54 Min)
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Ally - Working in the Preview Pane (2.08 min)
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Alternative Formats (Staff) (2.22 min)
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Alternative Formats (Students) (2.09 Min)
Improving Document Accessibility
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Adding a title to your PDF (2.17 min)
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Adding Headings in Word (1.50 Min)
Improving Video Accessibility
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Adding and Editing Captions on YouTube (3.35 Min)
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Adding and Editing Captions on Panopto (2.28 Min)
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Colour Contrast Analyser video tutorial (2.16 Min)
Resolving Issues Flagged by Anthology Ally Reports
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The document is scanned but not OCRed (1.04 Min)
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The document is untagged (1.36 Min)
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The HTML content had videos without captions or with automated captions (1.00 Min)
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The HTML content or document has tables that don't have any headers (1.40 min)
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The document has contrast issues (1.15 min)
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HTML no image description (2.42 Min)
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This document contains images that are missing an alternative description (1.19 Min)
Instructor report errors and fixes
Ally reports have the potential to bring up information about a wide array of issues, depending on the type of item (Word document, image file, html file, etc.).
In many cases, when you click on individual items to get detailed information you will see an annotated image, pointing out the issue, what it means, and how to fix it. However, this is not always the case.
In particular Ally does not have full guidance on all of the issues it can find within html files.
The information in this resource aims to bridge any gaps between an Ally report and your full understanding of an issue.
The PDF Available for download at the link below deals with files of particular types:
- Word documents
- PDFs
- PowerPoint presentations
- Image files
- HTML file
Anthology Ally Is not showing on your Module Menu bar
If you can’t see Ally in your menu bar, go to:
Admin (top right)>Course Admin> Navigation & Themes
Change to the navbar with Ally pilot in it.
If you still can't see it, there should be a drop-down at the top of the course navbar page; you select and apply there.
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