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Ally 2.18.3 Release to production: April 20, 2026
Document Processing Improvements
As part of our ongoing commitment to continuously improve quality and fidelity of content within Ally’s Instructor Feedback and Alternative Format processing, the 2.18.3 release brings critical improvements and enhancements to the underlying document conversion process that powers these key user features.
Ally’s document processing logic has been upgraded to provide smarter, faster, and higher quality conversion when dealing with files uploaded into the course. This brings several improvements to instructors and students, including:
Decreased cases of false positive contrast issues that appear in the Instructor Feedback File Previews
Improved handling of shapes within PowerPoint presentations, including conversion of things like arrows within the document
Improved recognition of alternative text applied to shapes after converting to PDF
Improved announcement of decorative images within alternative formats, including the audio alternative format
Improved recognition of images and application of Figure tags when converting to PDF
In addition to these user facing improvements, this update also includes optimization of Ally’s underlying infrastructure to help improve general performance and speed of processing content as it is received from the LMS.
Notat
Our teams will continue to analyze and identify additional possible improvements or edge cases that may need to be addressed in the future.
Upgraded AI Alt Text Assistant
The AI Alt Text Assistant has been updated to take advantage of several additional improvements in the underlying AWS Bedrock AI models, including decreasing the number of timeouts when requesting suggested alternative text and improved handling to avoid hallucinations when analyzing specific images.
As a reminder, the updated AI Alt Text Assistant Transparency Note can be viewed here with additional details about this feature: https://help.anthology.com/ally-lms/en/administrators/ai-alt-text-assistant.html
Bug Fixes and Improvements
Fixed a bug in the Instructor Feedback that caused incorrect highlighting to be applied in the preview when the PDF still doesn’t have the correct language set after attempting to apply the fix.
Fixed a bug in the Instructor Feedback where clicking Try Again when a PDF still doesn’t have the correct language set did not take the instructor back to the language selection panel.
Fixed a bug in Canvas that prevented the instructor from opening the Instructor Feedback on an OCRed PDF that also had a fixed title.
Fixed an accessibility issue in the Instructor Feedback panel that incorrectly shifted focus between elements when using the Back button.
Fixed an accessibility issue in the Alternative Formats modal window that caused the Original File format to not be downloaded when navigating and selecting with a keyboard.
Ally 2.18.2 Release to production: April 9, 2026
Bug Fixes and Improvements
Fixed an issue in Blackboard where Ally indicators did not show for file attachments within Assignment instructions.
Fixed a bug where in some cases while navigating the Instructor Feedback panel for WYSIWYG content, clicking the Bold or Italic icons in the rich content editor would activate the Auto-generate button for the AI Alt Text Assistant.
Fixed a bug where in some cases replacing an image with contrast issues with a brand-new image via the Instructor Feedback file upload did not update the document preview.
Fixed a bug in Canvas that prevented the Ally indicators from showing correctly on a Canvas Syllabus when Show recent announcements on Course home page was enabled.
Ally 2.18.1 Release to production: April 2, 2026
Bug Fixes and Improvements
Updated Moodle plugins for Moodle 4.5 and Moodle 5 to include bugfix backports to address minor bugs.
Fixed an issue with the AI Alt Text Assistant where in some cases instructors were presented with an error message when attempting to suggest alternative text due to the primary model being unavailable.
Ally 2.18 Release to production: March 26, 2026
New Library Reference Admin Feature Flag Now Available
As part of our continued effort to provide more granular levels of control for administrators looking to manage the PDF remediation experience for Instructors, a new feature flag is available in the Ally Configuration options that allows the Library Reference workflow to be turned off.
Administrators can now turn off the Library Reference feature to remove the instructor's ability to add Library References to PDFs when the original file is unavailable while working through various PDF-specific issues. This additional layer of control will help align this feature with institutional preferences and processes and provides additional flexibility when determining how best to manage fixing PDFs at scale.
Image 1: New Feature Flag within the Ally Configuration Options
Administrators can find this new feature flag within the Features tab in the Ally Configuration tool listed under Library reference.
Notat
Library References will remain turned on by default with this release. Turning off Library References with this new feature flag will not remove previously added Library References from content and will only prevent new ones being added going forward.
Bug Fixes and Improvements
Fixed a bug in Canvas that caused the Ally indicators column to disappear from the New Files area when the screen was resized.
Fixed an accessibility issue in Canvas integrations that prevented correct focus from being applied when using a keyboard to navigate Ally accessibility score indicators within Canvas Pages.
Fixed a broken web link in the Ally Configuration settings for the AI Alt Text Assistant Terms of Use.
Migrated our SMTP Email services for the backend infrastructure that handles custom help email flows.
Ally 2.17.5 Release to production: March 12, 2026
Blackboard UNSAFE_HTML Files No Longer Included in Reports
As part of our ongoing commitment to instructor efficiency and clarity in reporting, the Ally reports will no longer consider UNSAFE_HTML files as part of the course content for Blackboard integrations.
Image 1: Course Report with UNSAFE_HTML included to show past behavior.
As of this release, UNSAFE_HTML files automatically created in the content folder when using HTML snippets inside a Blackboard Document will be filtered out of the Institutional and Course reports. Previously, these files would show in the report but instructors were not able to fix the identified issues for missing language and title and often turned to other workarounds to remove these files from the course to remove them from the reports.
Notat
This change will remove all current and past UNSAFE_HTML files from consideration. Depending on how often these content items were used in a course, this may result in a slight increase or decrease in the course score based on the distribution of files, HTML and WYSIWYG content.
As part of a future release, we will look to avoid processing these files entirely when onboarding a course to help improve general performance and scanning.
Bug Fixes and Improvements
Fixed an issue in Blackboard integrations that caused a discrepancy with scoring for images when comparing the score within the Instructor Feedback of a Document to the score in the Course Accessibility Report when images were set to View Only or Download Only. The Course Accessibility Report was incorrectly missing previously applied alternative text and lowering the score despite this showing as fixed in the Instructor Feedback. Note this applies to images in Ultra Documents as part of the course and the Learning Object Repository.
Fixed an issue in the PDF Missing Language Quick Fix that allowed the Apply button to be clickable before the instructor selected a language.
Improved the styling on the Library Reference links in the Alternative Formats download window so that reference links show as clickable links and avoid potential contrast issues.
Ally 2.17.4 Utgivelse til produksjon: 5. mars 2026
Forhåndsvalg av språk er nå tilgjengelig for PDF Quick Fix for manglende språk.
Instruktører som fikser PDF-filer med manglende språk i Ally Instructor Feedback Quick Fix, kan nå dra nytte av at språket oppdages og forhåndsvelges i rullegardinmenyen, slik at de unngår ekstra skrolling og sparer tid når de fikser dette vanlige problemet.
Allys innebygde språkgjenkjenning analyserer PDF-filen for å finne riktig språk der det er mulig. Hvis det ikke blir oppdaget noe språk, kan læreren likevel velge et språk manuelt for å bruke utbedringen og få Ally til å lagre endringen i PDF-filen som forventet.
Bilde 1: Legg til språk med engelsk valgt
Moodle 5.1-tillegg er nå tilgjengelig
Som en del av Allys løpende støtte for Moodle er Ally-pluginmodulene for Moodle 5.1 tilgjengelige. Du finner mer informasjon om Allys støtte for Moodle i Dokumentasjon for Ally Moodle-konfigurasjon.
Notat
Ally oppretter grener for hver Moodle-versjon som støttes, som en del av vår strategi for åpen kildekode-plugin, for å muliggjøre målrettet utvikling og feilretting. Gjeldende versjoner av programtilleggene finner du i de tilsvarende STABLE-grenene i depotet vårt. Det anbefales alltid at administratorer bruker de stabile grenene for å sikre at ingen nye utilsiktede endringer blir introdusert når programtillegg oppdateres.
Feilrettinger og forbedringer
Løste et problem i Blackboard der undervisere som brukte emnetilgjengelighetsrapporten til å løse problemer i Dokumenter, uventet kunne fjerne innhold som feilaktig ble identifisert som lenker når de la inn HTML-blokker, lyd og/eller Video Studio-videoer.
Løste et problem for alle LMS-integrasjoner i institusjonsrapporten, der rullegardinmenyen for eksport var skjult på mindre skjermer og/eller nettlesere.
Løste et problem for alle LMS-integrasjoner, der bruk av en hurtigreparasjon for ødelagte lenker for WYSIWYG-innhold som inneholder flere ødelagte lenker samtidig, noen ganger resulterte i en uendelig lasting av lastesymbolet.
Implementerte flere frontend-forbedringer i infrastrukturen for forhåndsvisning av PDF-tilbakemelding fra instruktør for å støtte vår fortsatte fremgang med funksjoner for PDF-utbedring.
Implementerte ytterligere forbedringer av beste praksis for HTTP-forespørsler for Canvas-integrasjon for å sikre bruk av User-Agent-headers.
Ally 2.17.3 Utgivelse til produksjon: 30. januar 2026
Feilrettinger og forbedringer
Løste et problem i Allys instruktørtilbakemelding for skannede PDF-filer der (etter å ha åpnet «Lær hvordan du fikser PDF-filer») klikk på Tilbake ikke alltid førte brukerne tilbake til visningen for instruktørtilbakemelding, og noen ganger krevde et nytt klikk.
Ally 2.17.2 Utgivelse til produksjon: 15. januar 2026
Feilrettinger og forbedringer
Løste et problem i institusjonsrapporten der alternativet Last ned CSV var skjult ved eksport fra fanen Emner når søket returnerte ett eller færre emner.
Løste en feil i bruksrapporten der knappen Last ned bruksrapport forble deaktivert etter nedlasting av en rapport og valg av et nytt datointervall.
Løste et problem med tastaturtilgjengelighet i Canvas Files-området der fokuset gikk tapt ved navigering til tilgjengelighetspoengsummen. Fokus forblir nå synlig under navigering med tastatur.