New ASU accessibility service lets students get files in more formats
Students at Arizona State University can now download class documents as files formatted for screen readers, braille or MP3 audio, the school announced Thursday, a service university officials said will make digital course content more accessible for all students. Ally, the new tool from learning management system provider Canvas, not only scans content and converts it to different file types, but also can be used to measure and score the accessibility of the content uploaded by faculty. “It gives a meter rating of the access level of that document,” Chad Price, director of the Disability Resource Center at ASU, said in a press announcement. “Red is inaccessible, yellow is partially accessible and green is pretty accessible.”
