Ally Accessibility Checker

What is Ally?

Ally is a tool that we use to check our websites, web applications, and online courses for accessibility issues. This software was created by Anthology, the parent company of Blackboard.

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How do I access Ally?

Request an Ally account

1. First, complete the Web Accessibility Basics course in Learn.
2. Next, fill out this online form from IT Services: Request an Ally Account.
3. Once your request has been approved, IT Services will notify you via email.

Log into Ally

1. Go to ally.uada.edu.
2. Click the Sign in with Microsoft button.
3. Use your Microsoft username and password to log in.

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How does Ally work?

Once a day, Ally automatically crawls (scans) all of our public web content and searches for accessibility issues. When the crawl is complete, Ally calculates accessibility scores for each piece of content and compiles them in an accessibility report. This report is displayed in an interactive dashboard with three tabs:

• Overview: The overview tab shows how content on your site is performing by month or year. From here, you can find the overall accessibility score, the total number of domains and content, as well as accessibility issues found.
• Domains: The Domains tab lists all the websites or web applications you have access to as individual domains. From here, you can click on a domain to learn more about the issues being detected and how to fix them.
• Usage: The Usage tab allows you to export a spreadsheet with helpful data from a specific date range. This data includes the types of alternative formats people are downloading and how often accessibility issues are being fixed.

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Issues that Ally detects

Ally searches for content that fails to meet Level A and Level AA success criteria in the WCAG 2.2.