Canvas (Instructors): UDOIT Accessibility Checker

The Universal Design Online content Inspection Tool, or UDOIT (pronounced, “You Do It”), enables faculty to identify accessibility issues in their Canvas course content. It scans a course, generates a report, and provides resources on how to address common accessibility issues.

What does it do?

UDOIT identifies "errors" and provides "suggestions" in the following areas of your course:

  • Announcements
  • Assignments
  • Discussions
  • Files (e.g., .html files)
  • Pages
  • Syllabus
  • Module URLs

It checks for the appropriate use of the following:

Note: Some items cannot be examined by UDOIT. These include external documents and some videos/audio files for captioning/transcripts.

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