u/Comfortable_Plenty99

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Ally (the Blackboard accessibility product) that works inside our institution's LMS is awful

We went live with Ally sometime last year. It's the product that everyone in the institution has been using and trusting. (We use Brightspace D2L as our LMS.)

I gave it a PDF full of accessibility issues, even basic things like lists not being marked as lists, and it failed to detect those. Let's not even get into things like heading semantics.

Is this a joke? This is an almost 10 year old product and one that seems like the de facto choice for an institution our choice. We paid ~$10k for this and it fuxking sucks.

I'm part of a team responsible for ensuring that our university is compliant, and I don't have it in me to reveal that such a huge purchase we made is taking us nowhere.

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u/Comfortable_Plenty99 — 2 days ago

Ally (the Blackboard accessibility product) that works inside our institution's LMS is awful

We went live with Ally sometime last year. It's the product that everyone in the institution has been using and trusting. (We use Brightspace D2L as our LMS.)

I gave it a PDF full of accessibility issues, even basic things like lists not being marked as lists, and it failed to detect those. Let's not even get into things like heading semantics.

Is this a joke? This is an almost 10 year old product and one that seems like the de facto choice for an institution our choice. We paid ~$10k for this and it fuxking sucks.

I'm part of a team responsible for ensuring that our university is compliant, and I don't have it in me to reveal that such a huge purchase we made is taking us nowhere.

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u/Comfortable_Plenty99 — 7 days ago

Ally (the Blackboard accessibility product) that works inside our institution's LMS is awful

We went live with Ally sometime last year. It's the product that everyone in the institution has been using and trusting. (We use Brightspace D2L as our LMS.)

I gave it a PDF full of accessibility issues, even basic things like lists not being marked as lists, and it failed to detect those. Let's not even get into things like heading semantics.

Is this a joke? This is an almost 10 year old product and one that seems like the de facto choice for an institution our choice. We paid ~$10k for this and it fuxking sucks.

I'm part of a team responsible for ensuring that our university is compliant, and I don't have it in me to reveal that such a huge purchase we made is taking us nowhere.

reddit.com
u/Comfortable_Plenty99 — 7 days ago