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. 

 

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Accessibility: Ally in Brightspace

Ally Quick Start for Faculty

Ally Quick Start for Students

Ally Data

A graph representing percentage of accessible content items in Brightspace via Ally.
  • 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,  69.9% Accessible Files