Ally 1.13.2 | Release to production 27 February 2018

New Features, Updated Features

In this Ally 1.13.2 release, we focused our development and design on academic effectiveness. You’ll see below that we’ve also aligned our feature list in to groups based on value and benefit to you and your users.

Universal design

  • Unified English Braille
  • Alternative format improvements
  • Nearly perfect files

Unified English Braille

For English documents, the Electronic Braille alternative format has been updated from the Contracted (grade 2) US English braille code to the Contracted (grade 2) Unified English Braille (UEB) braille code. Unified English Braille has become the standard braille code across all English dialects.

Alternative format improvements

Several improvements have been added to the alternative format generation algorithms. This includes improved list recognition and conversion, the removal of unnecessary HTML tags, the removal of unused elements, etc.

Nearly perfect files

Because of rounding, it was possible for files with a 99.x% accessibility score to show in the LMS as having a 100% accessibility score. To help make it clear that minor further improvements are possible, the score display has been updated to always round the score down.

Bug fixes and improvements

  • Fixed a bug in the score calculation that caused the accessibility score to be too low in certain cases.
  • Fixed a bug where Ally didn't correctly recognize that the correct language was set in certain PDFs.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the alternative formats to download icon to display incorrectly in Firefox.
  • Added several internationalization improvements for the French Ally translations.
  • Implemented various accessibility improvements in the Instructor Feedback.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented PDFs that include Type 3 fonts from receiving an accessibility score and indicator.