by Christine Monnier | May 6, 2025 | Accessibility, Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger, Panorama
Before reading any further, please make sure you have read my initial post on Panorama, where I explain how to set it up for your courses in Blackboard. The point of doing this setup is to then be able to get an accessibility score on all your course elements, detect...
by Christine Monnier | Apr 17, 2025 | Accessibility, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger, Panorama
Accessibility matters. For some years, now, we have been using Ally to check the accessibility of our course content and provide alternative formats. We have now switched to YuJa Panorama, a tool that fulfills the same purpose. But from what I can tell, has expanded...
by Christina Sabo | Jun 8, 2020 | Accessibility, Featured
Emails are often an overlooked area for accessibility but because they are commonly the primary means (aside from Bb course announcements) of communication with students, it’s critical to make sure that accessibility best practices are also applied to emails. What...
by Christine Monnier | Mar 23, 2020 | Accessibility, Christine Monnier, Collaborate Ultra, Featured, Guest Blogger, Video, YuJa
With this post, I want to show you one more awesome thing about YuJa (in addition to adding quizzes in videos, and syncing that with the Blackboard gradebook. YuJa does the captioning for you. That’s it. That’s the post. Let me show you how. First, log in...
by Christina Sabo | Oct 22, 2019 | Accessibility, Featured
While Ally is a great tool for assessing if the content items in your course are accessible, it doesn’t check everything. What about the content of webpages that you’re using in your course (or, gasp, your course page itself)? How do you assess if the contrast is...
