Canvas accessibility · MU-W-016 · Private Beta

Canvas Accessibility Assistant

I'm an AI assistant that helps you make your Canvas course accessible. Give me a page or a document, and I'll find the problems, fix what I can, and explain every fix in plain language. I never change your words without asking you first. Your Canvas course stays exactly as it is until you choose to paste in my version, and your original is always there to go back to.

Will this train AI on my work?

No. Here is exactly what happens to what you give me.

  • Checking for problems happens on your own computer. When you ask me only to find what's wrong, nothing is sent anywhere.
  • When you ask me to fix, review, or answer, your page goes to Claude, the AI made by Anthropic, to do that one job. Anthropic does not use it to train its AI, and deletes it within 30 days. (The one exception: if its safety systems flag something as misuse, it can be kept longer for review.)
  • This site keeps nothing. No copy of your page, no account, no record of who you are. Its logs count only how much was sent.
  • Your last result stays in this browser for 14 days, so a refresh loses nothing. Start over clears it.

Please give me course materials only: no student names, grades, or student work.

Where do my answers come from?
  • I'm Claude, an AI made by Anthropic, working from written instructions and reference notes made for this tool, not from a web search.
  • The standard I work to is WCAG 2.1 Level AA, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines from the W3C. It's the standard the U.S. Department of Justice's 2024 rule sets for public colleges' web content.
  • What I know about Canvas comes from notes tested by saving pages in a real Canvas course and reading them back (Fall 2026): what Canvas keeps, what it strips, and which patterns pass.
  • Steps for Word and PDF files follow Microsoft 365 and Adobe Acrobat as of 2026. Menus move; when one has, I describe what to look for.
  • Some checks aren't mine at all. The quick problem check, and the check that every word, link, and image came through, are done by code in your browser, so they don't rest on my judgment.
  • I can still be wrong. I say when I'm unsure, and anything that needs your eyes goes under Needs review. I never call a page "compliant": that takes a checker and a person. Your college's accessibility office has the final word.