How Do I Make a Canvas Course Accessible?

Review a Canvas course as a set of student tasks. Platform accessibility, editor checks, file-analysis services and document remediation have different scopes. Identify the release and tools actually enabled at the institution.

Review authored content

Use semantic headings, descriptive links and appropriate image alternatives. Check data tables, contrast, keyboard access and external interactions. Consult current Canvas documentation for the installed authoring and course-checking workflows rather than assuming every deployment has identical coverage.

Check files and media

Inspect the PDFs, slides, spreadsheets and publisher resources students open. Review synchronized captions and necessary visual descriptions. An alternative format is a separate deliverable that needs testing; a score attached to the original cannot establish its usability.

Follow important journeys

With student roles, open resources, submit work and operate assessments and external tools. Include relevant manual and assistive-technology checks. Assign unresolved barriers and arrange timely interim access with disability services when needed.

Aelira Core is beta software. Supported workflows can apply eligible partial fixes and record outcomes, but some inputs need manual work or cannot produce a downloadable remediated file. Review the actual saved output, unresolved findings and content preservation before publication. Automated scores describe implemented checks rather than accessibility conformance. Inspect the public source and release documentation and evaluate a representative authorized sample before planning a rollout.

Canvas has release-specific Aelira integration evidence, including tested mechanics and bounds. That does not establish every course journey or configuration. Authorization, discovery, retrieval, scanning, review and permitted writeback need separate verification. Start with an authorized test course and inspect the actual saved or replaced material before expanding.