The UDOIT Cloud Accessibility tool scans your Canvas courses, identifies issues, allows you to fix many of those issues automatically, and provides guidance how to further improve your courses' accessibility.

For more information about how to access UDOIT, interpret the results, and solve common digital accessibility errors, please visit our page about How to Use the UDOIT Digital Accessibility Tool.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can UDOIT fix the accessibility errors in my course? Why can’t it fix all of them?

UDOIT (and the included UFIXIT tools) are very effective at identifying accessibility errors or formatting choices you should consider changing. However, there are many errors UDOIT can’t fix.

We recommend using UDOIT to monitor the status of your course content and identify errors you then fix manually. This allows you to:

• review the error on the actual Canvas page, in the context of other content
• view the page source code if necessary
• decide if it’s easier—or more productive—to rewrite the content than trying to fix each error individually
• learn how to prevent the error in the future

Accessibility errors are often complex and difficult to resolve automatically. If you need help interpreting the results of a UDOIT scan, or fixing an error, please email the UW-Superior Canvas team.

How do I solve errors related to PDFs?

UDOIT may report errors like “Missing Title” and “Untagged File” after scanning PDF files in your course. These refer to elements of the PDF, like missing document properties, page structure, selectable text, or image tagging.

You’ll need to fix these issues manually by editing the file. To do so, open Adobe Acrobat, and use the “Prepare for Accessibility” tool. Adobe Acrobat Pro is available to all UW-Superior instructors through our Creative Cloud site license.

For more information about how to install and use Adobe Acrobat, please contact Technology Services.

How do I solve “Heading Levels Should Not Be Skipped” errors?

Correct header formatting helps everyone understand and navigate your content. This formatting is critical for people using assistive devices (like screen readers), because properly-formatted headings allow them to navigate to different parts of the document quickly.

If UDOIT reports a Header Levels error and fixing it doesn’t seem to resolve the error, there’s probably still an issue with the page that’s easier to spot looking at the page’s HTML source code. Navigate to the Canvas page and attempt to resolve the issue manually.

For more information about resolving header errors, read this guide: UW-Superior Canvas - How to Resolve Heading Errors.