Case Study: California State University, Fresno achieves accessibility gains and inclusive course design with Anthology Ally

California State University, Fresno - Customer Case Study

California State University, Fresno sought to create a more equitable, inclusive learning environment for its 22,000+ diverse students but faced a cultural and technical challenge: faculty needed support and training to build accessibility and universal design for learning into course materials. To drive that cultural change, the university partnered with Anthology and adopted the Ally accessibility tool to help faculty identify and remediate inaccessible course files and to provide high-quality alternative formats for students.

Anthology’s Ally was implemented in a Spring 2018 pilot across 43 courses with documented remediation workflows, faculty training, and campus-wide communications; the average accessibility score for those courses rose from 38% to 77%. Student feedback showed 89% satisfaction among those who used alternative formats, and 50% of pilot courses were modified in under four hours. Anthology’s Ally was then integrated into faculty onboarding and broader redesign efforts, helping 60 trained faculty start 171 courses at an average accessibility score of 75% for Fall 2018.

California State University, Fresno

Dennis Nef

Vice Provost