Ally

Ally provides institutions with a set of holistic capabilities to make digital course content more accessible. Ally is embedded within Brightspace to assist content creators in making files such as Word, PPT, images and PDFs more accessible right within your course. 

 

Resources

Accessibility: Ally in Brightspace

Ally Quick Start for Faculty

Ally Quick Start for Students

Ally Data

A bar graph showing percentage of accessible content items in Brightspace (via Ally) over time
  • Ally Data for Brightspace Content:
  • 2023-SU - 71.2% Overall Accessibility, 98.7% WYSIWYG Accessibility, 61.4% Accessible Files
  • 2023-FA - 68.1% Overall Accessibility, 98.9% WYSIWYG Accessibility, 59% Accessible Files
  • 2024-WI - 72.5% Overall Accessibility, 99.3% WYSIWYG Accessibility, 59% Accessible Files
  • 2024-SP - 67.6% Overall Accessibility, 98.6% WYSIWYG Accessibility, 58.6% Accessible Files
  • 2024-SU - 74.5% Overall Accessibility, 98.5% WYSIWYG Accessibility, 64.6% Accessible Files
  • 2024-FA - 68.3% Overall Accessibility, 98.7% WYSIWYG Accessibility, 59.9% Accessible Files
  • 2025-WI - 74.1% Overall Accessibility, 99.6% WYSIWYG Accessibility, 63.2% Accessible Files
  • 2025-SP - 69.3% Overall Accessibility, 99% WYSIWYG Accessibility, 60.3% Accessible Files
  • 2025-SU - 80.2% Overall Accessibility, 99.4% WYSIWYG Accessibility, 70.5% Accessible Files
  • 2025-FA - 72.7% Overall Accessibility, 99.1% WYSIWYG Accessibility,  64.7% Accessible Files
  • 2026-WI - 71.7% Overall Accessibility, 99.7% WYSIWYG Accessibility,  62.3% Accessible Files
  • 2026-SP - 74.9% Overall Accessibility, 98.9% WYSIWYG Accessibility,  68.5% Accessible Files