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From: Catherine Roy
Date: Sep 19, 2019 7:47PM

Thank you very much for all this info, Karen. Very useful and much
appreciated.

Best,

Catherine


On 2019-09-19 1:51 p.m., Karlen Communications wrote:
> I recommend D2L aka Desire 2 Learn as they have a long commitment to
> accessibility. I belong to their monthly accessibility discussion group and
> years ago when they were first moving into accessibility, did a day long
> workshop on accessible UI. What impressed me was (and still does) is that
> once I pointed out accessibility barriers, went for coffee and came back,
> their developers had most of them fixed for the next release. They are
> always open to accessibility suggestions and often have accessibility
> sessions at their annual user conference.
>
> Unfortunately my academic institution is moving from D2L to Canvas and I'm a
> bit nervous about it but hear that Canvas does have an accessibility group
> and is interested in improving accessibility.
>
> Another LMS that is working on accessibility and has the ALLY add-in to help
> students access inaccessible content, is Blackboard.
>
> These are the top three LMS's and I would rank D2L first with Canvas and
> Blackboard tied for second. D2L includes accessibility for those of us
> instructors with disabilities as well as students with disabilities while
> most other LMS are still focused on students with disabilities which leaves
> those of us who are teaching out of the accessibility loop.
>
> I'm anxious to see how accessible the teacher/instructor UI is with Canvas.
>
> BGTW, Canvas Bridge for Teams which is a by product LMS for business is
> horrible in terms of accessibility for everyone.
>
> Cheers, Karen
>
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