Blackboard Help » Accessibility

Promotes inclusive learning practices.
Ensures Users can create, communicate, learn and collaborate without any barriers.
Provides alternative options to access the content, which can increase student engagement.
Encourages faculty to be mindful of the needs of the diverse group of learners while preparing the lectures.

Blackboard Ultra: Blackboard provides a list of accessibility features. Within Blackboard there is also a service called Blackboard Ally which works in the background and will ‘convert’ files uploaded to Blackboard into multiple alternative formats.
Blackboard Collaborate offers support for screen readers (full-screen and browser), as well as the ability to navigate using a keyboard.
Microsoft provides inbuilt accessibility features for Word, PowerPoint, and Teams.
Panopto accessibility features help students to easily navigate and read the Panopto web interface using captioning and screen readers.
Padlet currently offers basic support for screen readers and the ability to navigate the login page and dashboard using the keyboard only.
Accessibility features in PDFs (Acrobat, and Acrobat Reader).
Operating systems such as Windows, macOS, Chromebook (Chrome OS), Android and iOS.

Blackboard Ally is a tool that staff can use to make their module content in Blackboard accessible to all users. It does this by automatically scanning course content and providing accessibility scores and feedback on how to improve the accessibility of the content, as well as generating alternative accessible formats for uploaded files that students can download for their personal use.
PDF( Acrobat)
Microsoft PowerPoint
Videos for PowerPoint
Microsoft Word