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Digital Accessibility: Fix Your Content Day

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Can Your Courses Beat the Competition?

On November 10, educators around the world will participate in Fix Your Content Day 2026, a 24-hour event hosted by Blackboard Ally that encourages institutions to improve the accessibility of course content.

Using Ally in CarmenCanvas, faculty and staff can identify opportunities to improve the accessibility of course materials and contribute to Ohio State's standing on the event's live global leaderboard. Whether you make one improvement or fifty, every update helps create a more inclusive learning experience for students.

Learn More about Fix Your Content Day

How to Participate 

Ohio State is registered for the competition, so no individual registration is required.

  • Set aside time on Tuesday, Nov. 10 to review accessibility opportunities in your courses. 
  • Use Ally to identify content with red or orange accessibility indicators.
  • Start with quick wins. Use Ally Quick Fixes to find simple, high-impact improvements, such as adding alternative text to images, improving document structure, or fixing broken links. The Course Accessibility Report can help you identify these issues.
  • Each fix made using Ally is recorded and reported to a live leaderboard. File fixes and fixes made in the Rich Content Editor using Instructor Feedback contribute to the score. 

Why Participate? 

Small changes can have a big impact. Fix Your Content Day is a fun opportunity to improve your course content, learn more about accessibility, and join educators worldwide in creating more inclusive learning environments.

Together, we can make our digital learning environment more accessible for all learners.

Get Help

Need help? Visit the Ally Quick Fixes and additional Ally Instructional Guides on the Teaching and Learning Resource Center.
 

If you have questions, you can also contact your Digital Accessibility Coordinator or email Digital Accessibility Services. 

Fix Your Content Day Communication Toolkit

You can help us promote about Fix Your Content Day! Here are a few tools you can use to spread the word.

Ally Promotional Materials

2026 Fix Your Content Day FAQ (pdf)

2026 Fix Your Content Day Overview (pdf)

Email Template - Introduction

Subject line: Join us for Fix Your Content Day 2026  

Dear Faculty and Staff,  

On November 10, our campus will join institutions worldwide for Fix Your Content Day 2026, hosted by Blackboard Ally. This 24-hour competition is part of our ongoing commitment to inclusive education.  

Together, we’ll aim to fix as many accessibility issues and course files as possible using Ally in CarmenCanvas. Every fix—big or small—contributes to a more inclusive learning environment for all students.  

How you can help:  

  • Review your courses for red and orange indicators  
  • Focus on quick wins like adding image descriptions or improving Microsoft Word documents  
  • Start fixing on November 10 and keep things going throughout the day  

See how you can participate on the Digital Accessibility Services website. You can also visit the Teaching and Learning Resource Center’s Ally instructional guides to learn more about using Ally in Carmen.

Email Template - Reminder Series

Send: 2 weeks before Fix Your Content Day (target: October 27, 2026)

Subject line:

Save the date: Fix Your Content Day is coming to Ohio State

Body:

Dear Faculty and Staff,

Mark your calendars: on Tuesday, Nov. 10, The Ohio State University is going head-to-head with institutions around the world for Fix Your Content Day 2026, hosted by Blackboard Ally. One day, one global leaderboard, and one goal - make our course content more accessible, together.

Here's the fun part: every accessibility fix you make in Ally counts toward our campus total. Add alt text, fix contrast issues, add table headers - it all adds up quickly, and you'll be able to watch our ranking climb in real time on the public leaderboard.

What to expect over the next two weeks:

  • A short reminder next week with some high-impact strategy suggestions
  • A final nudge the day before the event
  • On Nov. 10, we fix as much as we can as a campus in 24 hours. You don’t need to sign up--just log in to CarmenCanvas and start fixing issues using Ally.

Want a head start?

Peek at your courses now to look for red (low score range) and orange (medium score range) accessibility indicators in Ally, so you know exactly where to strike first on the big day.

Curious about how this all got started?

What began as a small but mighty idea has grown into a global movement – you can read the origin story: Fix Your Content Day: How a 24-Hour Challenge Sparked a Global Accessibility Movement.

Have questions or need more information?

Check out the Ally Quick Fix Guides in the TLRC for more information on using Ally to remediate issues. Reach out to your Digital Accessibility Coordinator or email Digital Accessibility Services with questions. Let's see how high we can climb!

Send: 1 week before Fix Your Content Day (target: Nov 3, 2026)

Subject line:

One week until Fix Your Content Day is here!

Body:

Hi again,

It's one week until Fix Your Content Day, and campuses across the globe are gearing up to compete for the same goal: building a more accessible learning experience that invites every student into our classes.

This is a friendly competition, but we want to climb that leaderboard — and the only way to do it is fix after fix after fix. So don't stop at one. Open a course, find an issue, fix it, then find the next one. Keep going as long as you can on November 10th.

A few of the highest-impact places to start:

  • Open your Course Accessibility Report and pick one of the Ally Quick Fix items to start remediating issues that are the easiest to correct.
  • Use the AI alt text assistant to knock out missing image descriptions in seconds instead of writing each one from scratch. Be sure to review the AI suggestion for the appropriate context and make edits where needed before saving.
  • Use the Accessibility Checker inside Carmen’s Rich Content Editor (RCE) to quickly select color and color contrast recommendations that meet accessibility requirements.

Every fix moves us up the board and makes a real difference for a student somewhere in our courses. Let's see how far we can climb together!

Mark your calendar for Nov. 10, and watch for one more reminder the day before.

Questions? Reach out to your Digital Accessibility Coordinator or email Digital Accessibility Services. 

Send: 1 day before Fix Your Content Day (target: Nov 9th, 2026)

Subject line: Tomorrow’s the day! Everything you need to know for Fix Your Content Day

Body:

Hi everyone,

Tomorrow is the day! It's Fix Your Content Day — the day campuses around the world come together to make course content more accessible. Here's everything you need to take part:

  • Review the Ally Quick Fix Guides in the TLRC.
  • Log in to CarmenCanvas and open any course you teach or support.
  • Open the Course Accessibility Report and start working on your Quick Fix items. Pay attention to the red and orange accessibility indicators.
  • Fix as many as you can — every single one moves us closer to a more accessible experience for every student.
  • Start anytime during the 24-hour window and keep going as long as you're able.

This isn't about hitting a perfect score. It's about how many issues we can fix, together, in one day, and what that means for the students on the other side of every fix.

This is a team effort. The more of us who show up, the higher we climb. Bring a colleague, loop in your department, and let's turn this into our biggest showing yet.

See how Ohio State stacks up against campuses worldwide, and get help if you need it.  

Thank you for competing for such a worthy cause. See you tomorrow!

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