About the group
The European Ally User Group and North American Ally User Group have merged to create the International Ally User Group. You can find more information and register for upcoming events by visiting https://usergroup.ally.ac/dashboard
Led by the community for the community. We meet on the fourth Thursday of every month at 07:00 PT / 10:00 ET / 15:00 GMT / 16:00 CET / 19:00 GST. Our meetings will feature talks, workshops, and presentations from Educational Institutions and accessibility experts. While our focus is on the Ally product, we will cover other aspects of accessibility and inclusion in education.
Our User Groups are hosted externally to the main Blackboard Community site, because Ally integrates with other VLE / LMS vendors we enjoy a much wider community. All allies are welcome to join us!
Register for Ally Office Hours: https://learn.anthology.com/ally-office-hours
The meetings will be held on the second Monday of every other month.
User Group Recordings
Did you miss a session or want a recap? You can access the full recording via our blog post.
Led by the community for the community. We meet on the fourth Thursday of every month at 07:00 PT / 10:00 ET / 15:00 GMT / 16:00 CET / 19:00 GST. Our meetings will feature talks, workshops, and presentations from Educational Institutions and accessibility experts. While our focus is on the Ally product, we will cover other aspects of accessibility and inclusion in education.
Our User Groups are hosted externally to the main Blackboard Community site, because Ally integrates with other VLE / LMS vendors we enjoy a much wider community. All allies are welcome to join us!
Register for Ally Office Hours: https://learn.anthology.com/ally-office-hours
The meetings will be held on the second Monday of every other month.
User Group Recordings
Did you miss a session or want a recap? You can access the full recording via our blog post.
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We heard you! Fix Your Content Day (FYCD) is back on a new day this year: October 3, 2024 . Fix Your Content Day is our annual 24-hour global competition which challenges participants to create accessible and more inclusive digital ...
Karina Estrada
Sep '24
Registration for Fix Your Content Day on October 3, 2024 is live , and you’re the first to hear! Register today to ...
Clint Brooks
Sep '24
@Karina Estrada Is there a recording of yesterday's session?
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Greetings Ally Community! here is the August 28 Roadmap recording , and slide deck is attached. Ally roadmap August 28, 2024.pdf The following features were included in the roadmap session: AI alt text assistant Broken Links ...
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Steps I have followed: Admin panel > Ally Institution Report LTI 1. 3 > sort score by term. In the category of Major Issues, "The HTML content has videos without captions or with automated captions" shows a large number of "items with ...
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My institution is planning to implement an audit in Blackboard to check for the presence of video content that may or may not have closed captions. We know video can be shared in multiple ways throughout a course (links, HTML blocks ...
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Here is the recording of the Mon. December 12 Ally Office Hours and the slides deck is attached. Ally Office Hours Dec 9 2024.pdf
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Hello Ally Community, @Kristen McCartney-Bulmer , @Matthew Deeprose and @Lara Tompkins have requested to step-down from their role as Ally User Group leaders. We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to them, for their ...
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Greetings Ally Community! Join our next @Office Hours on Monday, November 11th at 11am EST/ 4pm GTM to chat with Product Managers and your peers about Ally features and developments. Remember if you got a question, ask it via our form , ...
Karina Estrada
Nov '24
Here is the recording of the Mon. November 11 Ally Office Hours
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I've been doing some testing using basic internal CSS on a Document page and the HTML content type but have found Ally to completely ignore it. Is this how it's going to be or is there any scope for improvement? When I export the page using ...
Matthew Deeprose
Oct '24
@Carol Chatten In my experience, ally really struggles with “alternate domain” content, I think it cannot "see" ...
Matthew Deeprose
Oct '24
@Carol Chatten We checked document headings in MP3 alt format, but couldn't recreate your issue, it didn't say the ...
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Greetings Ally Community! Join our next @Office Hours on Monday, October 14 to chat with Product Managers and your peers about Ally features and developments. Remember if you got a question, ask it via our form , in advance!! Agenda: ...
Karina Estrada
Oct '24
@Office Hours Here is the recording of the Mon October 14, Ally Office Hours. The slide deck is attached.
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Bug Fixes and Improvements Resolved an issue where the Ally alternative formats tooltip in the Canvas files view for students was disappearing a few seconds after the icon was selected. Fixed a bug in the Instructor Feedback that was ...
Steve Cherry
Sep '24
Does anyone else find that when they click on an issue to view / fix it in the report, that the item opens in two ...
