UDOIT (Canvas accessibility checker) Accessibility and Usability Information
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Contact the DoIT Help Desk for general assistance. Reach the Help Desk by phone at 608.264.4357, email at help@doit.wisc.edu or visit their KnowledgeBase.
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For accessibility or usability assistance for UDOIT, please contact learnuwsupport@wisc.edu.
Additional resources
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UDOIT Overview, UW-Madison (KnowledgeBase document)
Accessibility and usability barriers
The following information is provided to help people with disabilities know what potential barriers may exist and to help people who support them. This is not a comprehensive list of barriers. Our team evaluates common user flows, looking for patterns of barriers. We do not evaluate the entire application.
Lack of captions or transcripts for video create barriers for people who are deaf or hard of hearing.
The welcome page on UDOIT has a video overview to display features of the tool, but the video doesn’t have captions or a transcript.
Magnification and reflow barriers exist, creating barriers for people with low vision.
Figure 1 - Magnification barriers
Figure 1: By 200% with the side nav open, horizontal scroll is required to read all of the page, and text in the Scorecard becomes unreadable. With the size nav closed, the page becomes unreadable by 300%, which does not meet the WCAG 2.1 AA standard of 400%. (The magnification barriers persist even if a user navigates to “open in a new tab” and reviews the content from https://udoit3.ciditools.com/dashboard.)
Figure 1.1 caption: By 250%, the drop down becomes unreadable, even with the side navigation closed.
Figure 1.2 caption: At 300% magnification, content becomes unreadable on pages. This is the welcome screen at 300%.
Screen reader barriers limit access for individuals using screen readers, such as people who are blind or who have a learning disability.
Screen reader barriers exist, such as missing language, confusing reading order, and missing table headers.
Figure 2 - Lack of context (screen reader barrier)
Figure 2 caption: The screen reader announces “85% You are currently on a selectable text.” The screen reader then announces “Heading level 2: Course accessibility score.” To someone listening to the page, it is hard to connect the score to the percentage read.
Figure 3 - Empty table headers
Figure 3 caption: The table in this interface has two empty cells in the header row: one above the “i” (information) column, and one above the column with buttons that say “Review.”