Accessibility
The University of Utah and Digital Learning Technologies (DLT) are committed to ensuring that all students have equitable access to learning, and this includes meeting the accessibility requirements outlined in Title II of the ADA and the WCAG 2.1 AA standards. Faculty play a vital role in creating inclusive academic environments by designing Canvas courses that all learners—regardless of ability—can navigate and use. To support this commitment, instructors are expected to ensure their Canvas course materials follow core accessibility practices, including:
- Alt text for all meaningful images
- Accurate captions for all videos
- High contrast and no color-only meaning
- Descriptive links and clear file names
- Proper heading structure
- Tagged PDFs and readable documents
Cidi Labs
TidyUp
TidyUP by Cidi Labs is a time-saving course cleanup tool for Canvas that helps educators and instructional designers quickly identify and remove unused files, outdated content, duplicates, and empty folders.
With TidyUP, you can streamline course cleanup, reduce accessibility workload, and maintain cleaner, more manageable Canvas courses. TidyUP can:
- Identify unused, outdated, and duplicate content.
- Remove course clutter safely and efficiently.
- Reduce accessibility remediation effort.
- Archive and delete in bulk.
- Save storage space.
UDOIT
UDOIT Advantage from Cidi Labs is a Canvas course accessibility assistant.
UDOIT scans course content automatically, identifies accessibility issues, and guides users through fixes. And it does so while helping teams learn why issues occur and how to prevent them in the future. With UDOIT Advantage, you can:
- Gauge accessibility at the course and institutional level.
- Empower non-experts to fix issues with confidence.
- Build shared accessibility knowledge over time.
- Track progress and demonstrate improvement.
- Support equitable learning for all students.
Canvas Portfolio
Canvas now offers two types of portfolios to support both learner-driven and instructor-guided use cases: Showcase Portfolios and Evaluation Portfolios. These tools support storytelling, assessment, and the validation of competencies.
In Portfolios, instructors can assign structured, competency-based portfolios, enabling learners to submit work aligned with the institutions defined requirements and skills. Learners can also create their own showcase portfolios, curating evidence of academic and co-curricular work with more flexibility, including reflections, tags, and shareable links.