Accessibility-by-Design Request

How It Works

Do digital accessibility issues in your Canvas content make you feel uncertain, frustrated, or overwhelmed? Are you feeling short on time to fix accessibility issues in your Canvas courses? The Bellevue College Interactive eLearning team can support accessible design of your Canvas courses, making your course more inclusive and improving overall accessibility. Follow the steps below to get started.

Steps to Get Started

1. Add the content of your current course to a reference shell. Request a reference shell for the course if you don’t already have one.
2. Run TidyUp to remove unused and duplicate content. Don’t worry about losing content or files; deleting content from the Reference course does not delete it from the copied course.
3. Fill out the Request Form below and include the URL of the reference site you’d like us to work in. Please submit a separate form for each course you would like the design team to review.   
4. We’ll review your Canvas content (announcements, assignments, discussions, pages, syllabus)and apply accessibility fixes. We may need to contact you with questions during the remediation process.
5. At this time we cannot:
   1. remediate any files in your course  
   2. add alternative text to images (this requires content expertise)
   3. remediate quizzes or question/item banks  
6. We’ll inform you when the remediation is complete. Expect this process to take a minimum of 2-3 weeks per course. Please note, our focus is on fixing accessibility issues, which may or may not impact the accessibility score.
7. The next time you teach the course, copy the content from the Reference shell.

BONUS: After applying accessibility fixes to your course content, we will provide you with a redesigned page, assignment, or discussion as duplicate content. You can choose to use it or not. If you like it and want more, we’ll schedule a design consultation.