LMS Accessibility Testing

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Problem

At Educause this year, most University folks who visited our booth asked if we had an LMS integration. Apparently, Blackboard Ally doesn't handle large amounts of data that most Learning Management Systems (LMS) have.

Solution

Since an LMS is a website, it wouldn't be hard to integrate our Open Source tooling into an add-on for Canvas or other popular LMS systems. We would probably need to make more options available for PDF/document scanning, since that's a major piece for faculty. The ability for faculty members to scan was also a requested feature at Educatuse.

Process

We need to find a University partner who would be interested in integrating the feature with us. Ideally, it would be a university with large amounts of content. Equalify shines when we scan a ton of content. We should also pay attention to Jeffrey Kontio Jr.'s work that will study LMS Accessibilty in Higher Education. That study could inform our Open Source work.