This article is for faculty who want to check the accessibility of a course on Canvas.
Article Overview
1. Find Ally on Your Course Navigation Menu
1.1. From your course's navigation menu, find and click on Ally Course Accessibility Report.
The Ally Course Accessibility tab can be found in the Course Navigation to the left in Canvas.

If you cannot find the Ally Course Accessibility tab, you may need to enable it from your course's settings. If you do see it, skip to Section 2.
1.2. Change Your Navigation Settings
From the Course Navigation Menu, click on the Settings tab.

Click on the Navigation tab at the top of the Settings page.

Scroll down until you find Ally Course Accessibility Report. It may be far down on the list. Click on the vertical dot menu next to Ally Course Accessibility Report. Then click the Enable button.

Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the Save button.

Check your Course Navigation Menu on the left side of the page for a link to Ally Course Accessibility Reports.

2. View an Overview of Your Course's Accessibility Score
The first page of Ally Course Accessibility Reports shows your overall accessibility score.

The report also shows the different types of content in your course: images, pages, assignments, quizzes, discussion topics, announcements, and the syllabus.

Most importantly, the overview report also shows content that has issues.

3. Fix Accessibility Issues
3.1. Fix Low Scoring Content
Now that you know your course's accessibility score, you can start fixing issues. Click the Start button for Fix low scoring content to begin making content more accessible.

3.2. View an Item's Accessibility Issues
Click on a content item's file name to view its accessibility issues.
3.3. Fix Issues in Ally
You will see the report page for an individual item. In this example, an image is missing a description. Ally also prompts you to fix the issue.
Ally allows you to add an image description directly from the report.
After fixing an issue, Ally adjusts the score for the course content item.

Some items may have more than one issue.

To check accessibility while you create course content, use Canvas's accessibility checker. This appears below the RCE (Rich Content Editor).
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