[NABS-L] Blackboard versus Canvas

Mon Jun 3 23:45:04 UTC 2024

Hi Rebecca,
I use Canvas with voiceover on Mac daily. For sure the discussion boards
have some of the most inaccessible canvas features at least when it comes
to formatting your responses. I personally don’t bother with aesthetic
formatting other than making sure my posts are grammatically correct and
broken up into proper Lines/paragraphs.
If you need any assistance beyond that and navigating other Canvas features
on Mac, please feel free to reach out to me privately.

Selene Monjaraz

On Mon, Jun 3, 2024 at 6:37 PM Rebecca Sabo via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
wrote:

> Hi again
> I am using a Mac with voiceover, so that’s why I need help with canvas.
> Thanks, Becky Sabo.
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jun 3, 2024, at 6:04 PM, Kelsey Nicolay via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
> wrote:
>
> I am very strongly considering Ashland because they are offering me a
> discount for being an alumni which is knocking $4,000 off the program cost.
> they use BlackBoard as I previously mentioned, so if I needed scripting to
> make BlackBoard more accessible with JAWS, is the college required to pay
> for that or is that my responsibility? I did my undergraduate studies on
> campus ′they had online classes, but I just never did any′, so all of this
> is new to me in terms of accommodations for online learning.
> Sent from Kelsey Nicolay’s iPhone
>
> > On Jun 3, 2024, at 12:30 PM, nesma aly via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > I used canvas for a while. I found that It’s more accessible with
> Firefox.
> >
> >> On Mon, Jun 3, 2024 at 11:06 Rebecca Sabo via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> >
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi ,
> >> I am using canvas for my school.  Some reason I am having trouble using
> >> the discussion board and how to move around on certain pages on it .  Is
> >> there anyone who could help me with canvas?
> >> Becky Sabo
> >>
> >>> On May 30, 2024, at 10:36 PM, Alisha Geary via NABS-L <
> nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I love Canvas! I used to go to a school that used D2L and it had rather
> >> messy accessibility at best and broken useless accessibility at worst.
> >> Canvas is superior to D2L for sure. I’ve never used Blackboard though.
> >>> Sent from my iPhone
> >>>
> >>>> On May 30, 2024, at 9:34 PM, kim drudge via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> >> <mailto:nabs-l at nfbnet.org>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>> Definitely use Canvas -- it's more accessible!
> >>>> I've never used Blackboard, but Canvas is mostly very accessible. I go
> >> to a
> >>>> community college, and it's mostly up to the professor to make things
> >>>> accessible. Just tell the professor what you need and they'll make it
> >>>> accessible to the best of their abilities.
> >>>> However, I have a friend who uses Blackboard, and it's ok for her. But
> >> I'd
> >>>> definitely go for Canvas.
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>> Kim
> >>>>
> >>>>> On Thu, May 30, 2024 at 7:42 PM Kelsey Nicolay via NABS-L <
> >> nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
> >>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Hello all
> >>>>> Hoping you all can help out here. I am looking into going back for a
> >>>>> Master's degree in Human Resources or an MBA in Human Resources. I
> did
> >> my
> >>>>> undergraduate studies at Ashland on campus and liked it, but I will
> >> need to
> >>>>> do the Master's online due to working full time. Ashland offers a
> >> tuition
> >>>>> discount for alumni, so I'm really leaning toward them. However, they
> >> use
> >>>>> BlackBoard for their course content which I have heard is not very
> >>>>> accessible with JAWS, so that concerns me a bit. They also use Webex
> >> for
> >>>>> live sessions and require all students to have their video on at all
> >> times
> >>>>> which can be tricky for someone who is blind due to having to
> position
> >> the
> >>>>> camera properly. I have also heard commercials for Franklin
> University
> >> and
> >>>>> also like their program. They are using Canvas and they encourage
> >> univers at l
> >>>>> course design by faculty. from an assistive technology perspective,
> >> which
> >>>>> of the two systems would be more accessible? I know neither
> BlackBoard
> >> nor
> >>>>> Canvas are 100 percent accessible with JAWS, but I don't want lack of
> >>>>> accessibility to be a barrier, so I would love some insight on which
> of
> >>>>> these systems would cause less frustration in the long run.
> >>>>> Sent from Kelsey Nicolay’s iPhone
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> >>>> --
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