Blackboard today introduced Blackboard Ally for Web, a solution for assessing and improving the accessibility of institutions' websites. The tool expands on Blackboard's Ally product (launched last ...

Microsoft Word documents can be made accessible with proper headings, built-in numbered or bulleted lists, descriptive links, adding alternative text to images and adding headings to tables. This will ...

The WebCampus rich text editor used for course pages, assignments, quizzes, discussions, etc. has a built-in accessibility checker. This checker is automated to alert you to potential accessibility ...

PDF files have been a convenient way to deliver print documents online, but they remain a challenge to make accessible. Problems include: The difficulty and cost of making PDF files accessible (Penn ...

IBM has rolled out an update to its open source web Accessibility Checker tool to make it easier to find and fix accessibility issues. The upgrade is designed to coincide with Global Accessibility ...

To meet new federal requirements, all digital platforms must conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines WCAG 2.1 AA standards by May 2026. Websites with unresolved flagged accessibility ...

The founders of Yoast SEO plugin announced an investment in a WordPress accessibility plugin that scans and reports on accessibility issues and makes it easy to troubleshoot entire websites. Making a ...

To check the accessibility of your web content, you should contact your Web Accessibility Liaison to request a report for the web pages you are interested in. Web Accessibility Liaisons are ...

Among the top one million homepages, there were a staggering 49,991,225 unique accessibility issues identified, averaging 50 issues per page. This statistic is shocking, especially when you think ...