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Canvas Accessibility Dashboard Product updates – 2026

by Whitney Lewis

Stay up-to-date on all product updates for Pope Tech’s Canvas Accessibility Dashboard. Product updates include details on all major feature releases.

For more details about features and fixes, review the release notes.

If there are any questions or feedback, please contact us.



    February 19 – PDF Scanning

    PDF Scanning is now available in Pope Tech! PDF Scanning (Powered by Grackle) uses the PDF/UA standard for testing.

    With PDF Scanning, Pope Tech identifies PDFs that have issues and the types of issues they have.

    Before, you’d have to open a separate PDF remediation tool, like Adobe Acrobat Pro, to know what accessibility issues a PDF has. Now, you can get a detailed snapshot right in Pope Tech, making it easier to:

    1. Inventory PDFs on your websites.
    2. Understand the best way to fix the PDF (remove if out of date, update, or convert to HTML webpage).
    3. Prioritize PDFs that have the most critical issues.
    PDF Scan report including document information and automated report details.

    Learn more about PDF Scanning for Canvas.

    PDF Scanning is in beta and is available as an add-on. Contact your account representative or support for pricing details.

    February 19 – Updated Course Dashboard Design with Document and Video Dashboards

    We’re excited to introduce the new Course Dashboard! This also includes a new Documents and Video dashboard.

    The new course dashboard is currently opt-in only. To opt-in, contact your account representative.

    The updated course dashboard encourages action by:

    • Organizing issues in the same categories that instructors see in the Accessibility Guide.
    • Highlighting emerging issues and progress.
    • Giving resources that new or returning instructors can use to start accessibility efforts.
    • Groups Document and Video results together to make it easy to know what documents and videos need reviewing.
    Canvas course dashboard

    There are three new widgets to help you understand your course’s current accessibility health and progress:

    • Accessibility Scorecard: Shows how many errors and alerts are in each category. Can drill into just those issues.
    • 30 Day Trend: Shows how errors and alerts have increased or decreased.
    • Resources: Gives three resources beginners can use to orient them to accessibility.

    Document and Videos Dashboard

    The Documents and Videos Dashboard organizes all Document and Video results in one place. Documents need a manual review, so this makes it easy to know what documents are in the course. The Document view gives even more detail about PDFs when paired with the PDF scanning add-on.

    List of document and video results.

    Videos have additional, helpful results that tell you if it has human captions or not, making it easy to know what videos to prioritize.

    List of videos, their platform, and caption status.

    Navigate to the Document and Videos Dashboard

    Navigate from the Course Dashboard: Under the Accessibility Scorecard, select Documents and Videos.

    Navigate from the Admin Dashboard:

    1. In the global navigation, select Admin. Then, select the account.
    2. In the admin navigation menu, select Pope Tech Accessibility.
    3. Review the Documents and Videos widget or select View All to access the Documents and Videos Dashboard.

    Launch for all customers

    The new Dashboards will be launched for all customers on Tuesday, June 16, 2026.

    January 13 – New Detail View in Canvas Dashboards

    Accessibility results now have a detail view that give information specific to that result type if applicable, the code snippet, and documentation.

    For example, a Suspicious alternative text detail view shows the Alternative text, code snippet, and documentation.

    For additional recent updates, view: