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Moodle is still experiencing issues with the Ally accessibility plugin after last week's upgrades. We are continuing to work with the vendor to resolve this issue. As part of that, we have restored some functionality for faculty. If faculty would like to use Ally to test and improve class documents, they can do the following in Moodle: 

1. Go to your course page 
2. In the course-level menu, select "Reports" 
3. A new page will open. On it, select "Accessibility Report" 
4. A new tab will open showing you course accessibility report. Consult Ally's instructions for how to use it to remediate issues with your course materials. 

We also recommend faculty consult these resources:  

• Our accessibility best practices webpage 
• Our documentation on Ask Athena for how to make accessible scans and how to make accessible PDF’s 
• Our Moodle course, Accessibility Training Institute, Part 2: Making Accessible Materials 
• Our document converter 

For students, we recommend checking out our tools available on the assistive technology webpage (including Helperbird and Immersive Reader) and the available document converter.