Easy Fixes for Accessible Course Content

Easy Fix is an annual initiative of the Office of Digital Learning (ODL), designed to help instructors and course designers improve course accessibility through a series of small, incremental changes. Through the end of March (excluding spring break), ODL will email faculty and staff strategies for boosting accessibility. Tips include leveraging built-in Canvas tools, avoiding scanned PDFs, captioning videos with Kaltura, and accessible ways to style text. As updated regulations from the U.S. Department of Justice go into effect on April 24, 2026*, now is the time to take advantage of these easy methods for addressing inaccessible content.

Course Accessibility Resources

In addition to Easy Fix, the resources below provide tips for getting started, tools for identifying inaccessible content, and how-to articles that will help you address accessibility issues.

• Course Accessibility Website | ODL has updated its Making Content Accessible page with additional resources to help you meet federal accessibility standards, including a quick start guide, course materials checklist, and links to articles with step-by-step instructions.
• Canvas Tool: Ally | Ally is a built-in Canvas tool that helps instructors quickly identify inaccessible course content, providing easy-to-follow instructions for addressing inaccessible Canvas page content, video, files, and more.
• Canvas Tool: TidyUP | By using TidyUP, instructors can easily identify and archive unused or duplicate course content, improving overall course accessibility scores and narrowing the scope of files that need to be addressed.

Additional Accessibility Resources

Additional resources to help you ensure course materials are accessible to students can be found through the FSU offices listed below.

• FSU Libraries ensure equitable access to course materials by locating digital editions of books and instructional content and providing services to convert materials into accessible formats whenever feasible.
• Office of Accessibility Services (OAS) partners with faculty and staff to provide FSU students with disability-related accommodations to mitigate obstacles associated with academics, testing, housing, transportation, and dietary needs.
• University Communications provides resources for accessible course content, webpages, documents and files, design and color, social media, and video and audio.
• Information Technology Services Digital Accessibility page provides information about federal regulations, the WCAG 2.1 AA technical standard, and tools for checking digital content for accessibility issues.

*The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) updated its regulations for Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in April 2024. The final rule requires public universities to ensure web content and mobile applications (including academic course content) are accessible to people with disabilities. To be compliant, course content must meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Version 2.1 Level AA. The deadline to comply with the DOJ rule is April 24, 2026.