From Barriers to Belonging: How We Rebuilt Course Accessibility with Canvas and UDOIT

Many institutions have crossed the April 2026 WCAG 2.1 AA deadline with work still left to do, and now face the challenge of sustaining momentum without a hard deadline driving the effort. If accessibility feels like an unfinished project rather than an embedded practice, this session is for you. Join our instructional design team as we share how we transformed our approach to course accessibility across Canvas using UDOIT and other tools as our engine for discovery, prioritization, and remediation. In this session, we'll walk you through our team's end-to-end process: how we used UDOIT to audit existing course content at scale; triaged and prioritized the most impactful fixes; partnered with faculty; built accessibility into course design from the start, and tracked our progress toward WCAG 2.1 AA compliance by April 2026. We'll be honest about what worked, what surprised us, and what we'd do differently. Whether you're just launching an accessibility initiative or reflecting on your own compliance journey, you'll leave with a replicable framework, practical strategies for using Canvas and UDOIT together, and lessons learned from our team's real-world experience. Accessibility isn't just a compliance checkbox—it's a commitment to every learner. Come learn how we made it actionable.