We are pleased to announce that Pope Tech’s Canvas Accessibility Suite now includes the award-winning BeeLine Reader readability feature. Pope Tech’s partnership with BeeLine Reader has made it so Canvas is the first ever LMS to have BeeLine Reader available for use on the web.
This feature uses color gradients to help all students and faculty with:
- Improved visual tracking
- Reduced line-repeating and line-skipping
- Increased reading endurance
These benefits help readers of all ability levels, but are especially helpful for readers with disabilities like dyslexia, ADHD, or visual impairments. Students who find BeeLine Reader helpful can also use it with e-textbooks (50% off first month), PDFs, as a web browser extension or iOS extension.
Give BeeLine Reader a try right now
You can try out the BeeLine Reader functionality right here. Select one of the gradient buttons at the top to activate BeeLine Reader on this text. Once the feature is activated, just read like normal, and see how the line-wrapping color gradients help facilitate eye movement while reading.
How to get started with BeeLine Reader in Canvas
This feature is included in all existing Pope Tech Canvas Accessibility customers’ plans.
If you’re interested in activating BeeLine Reader so students and instructors can begin using it, contact your account representative. If you’d like to learn more about how to start making your Canvas courses more accessible with Pope Tech’s Accessibility Guide and BeeLine Reader, fill out our contact form.
To learn more about BeeLine Reader, you can also check out BeeLine’s website, The Atlantic’s A Better Way to Read, or WNYC’s The Takeaway.
Upcoming webinar
We will be holding a joint webinar on April 16th at 11 AM MT. We’ll showcase recent Canvas Accessibility Dashboard updates, including BeeLine Reader and our new PDF Scanning feature.
Date and time: Thursday, April 16th, from 11 AM MT – 12 PM MT.
Register for the Canvas Accessibility Dashboards Updates webinar.
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BeeLine Reader is a reading augmentation company whose technology has won social impact awards from MIT Solve, Stanford BASES, The Tech Museum of Innovation, and the United Nations Solutions Summit.