UDOIT – Universal Design Online Inspection Tool
The Universal Design Online Content Inspection Tool, or UDOIT (“You Do It”) enables faculty to identify and correct many accessibility issues in their MiraCosta Canvas courses. UDOIT scans a course, generates a report, and provides resources on how to address common accessibility issues. It was created by the Center for Distributed Learning at the University of Central Florida.
Canvas tools that UDOIT checks
- Announcements
- Assignments
- Discussions
- Files (i.e., .html files)
- Pages
- Syllabus
- Module URLs
Accessibility issues that UDOIT examines
- Use of headings in page structure
- Alternative text for images
- Table headers
- Color contrast
- Video captions
Click any of the above links for issue-specific accessibility guidance.
Please note: some items cannot be examined by UDOIT. These include external documents and some videos/audio files for captioning/transcripts.
How to use UDOIT in Canvas