by Christine Monnier | Dec 10, 2025 | Accessibility, Ally, Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
For those of you keeping track at home, fixing my low-scoring content increased my course accessibility score from 75% to 89%. In this post, let’s see what happens to that score once I fix my medium scoring issues. A quick overview tells me that the issues are...
by Christine Monnier | Dec 8, 2025 | Accessibility, Ally, Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
In my previous post on Ally, I showed you guys how to access your dashboard and check out your course score as well as which items need the most work to increase that course score. For one of my classes, this looked like this. As you can see, my course score was 74%...
by Christine Monnier | Nov 24, 2025 | Accessibility, Ally, Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
For those of you as old as I am, you might remember that, once upon a time, we used Ally for accessibility checks in our courses. Heck, I still have a t-shirt and a frisbee from that time. Karin Evans and I got to be in a video about it. Then Ally went away and we...
by Christine Monnier | Oct 9, 2025 | Accessibility, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
Christine’s thought that is unrelated to the LT department: do yourselves a favor and go check out the Against AI website. It’s a work in progress but it contains some background readings, some assignment ideas, and other content. I know I mentioned...
by Christine Monnier | Sep 2, 2025 | Accessibility, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
No, PDFs are not dead You may have seen some communication urging people to stop using PDFs for accessibility reasons. It’s a bit more nuanced than that. Let me review different situations and what you can do so that your documents are accessible. The worst-case...
