Ally 1.6 | Release to production 29 June, 2017

Updated Features

Spanish language support

Ally now has full support for Spanish across all Learning Management System integrations.

Improved mobile support

Viewing the Semantic HTML format of a document on a mobile device has been improved. The experience for the audio format has also been improved. On mobile devices, the audio will now play in the browser, with the ability to download the MP3 file.

Alternative Accessible Formats

The average file size for generated Alternative Accessible Formats has been significantly reduced. This especially benefits documents that contain images.

Documents without a language

Several improvements have been made to Ally's detection of documents without a language, especially for Word (.docx) and Powerpoint (.pptx) files.

Bug fixes and improvements

  • Fixed a bug in the Canvas Modules tool where all accessibility indicators would be updated to the same state when improving a single item.
  • Fixed a parsing issue that was causing occasional failures while generating an audio format.
  • Various wording improvements were made in the Instructor Feedback workflows.
  • The name under which an Alternative Accessible Format is downloaded is now the same as the original file name.