September 23 Update Notes

This update to the Pope Tech platform includes the following: Launch of Pope Tech API New testing results and improvements with WAVE update Dashboard optimization and group widget improvements New user invitation design updated to support co-branding Accessibility improvements Focus management improvements for keyboard users tab components improved keyboard and screen reader support Crawling engine…

Installing the Instructor Accessibility Guide for Canvas

For more information on the Instructor Accessibility Guide for Canvas, review Accessibility Guide Documentation. The instructor guide is added to your Canvas instance by JavaScript in the custom theme editor. How to Install: Once the JavaScript is added and saved, the Accessibility Guide will be immediately enabled for all courses in the Canvas instance using…

WAVE Extensions for Firefox and Chrome

The WAVE extensions for Firefox and Chrome will allow you to evaluate the accessibility of your web pages directly within your browser. Because the extensions evaluate the rendered version of your page, they are able to check intranet, password-protected, dynamically generated, or sensitive web pages. Because of the simplicity and convenience of the browser extensions,…

Dismiss Results

Summary: Accessibility errors and alerts that have been manually reviewed and found to not be accessibility issues can be dismissed. Dismissed results will not show up in the dashboard or in accessibility reports. Dismissed results will likewise not show up in the latest and future scans until the scanned code (HTML) changes or the result…

Instructor Accessibility Guide for Canvas Intro

Summary: This is an introduction on how to use the Instructor Accessibility Guide inside of the Canvas LMS (Learning Management System) after it is installed in the Canvas instance. Accessibility Guide overview The Accessibility Guide is organized into five sections. Images and Links, Text and Contrast, Headings, Tables and Lists, and Documents. Within each of…