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# Ally 1.12 (December 20, 2017) ## Web Community Manager (WCM) integration The Ally integration for Web Community Manager (WCM) is now available. WCM is distinct from Ally’s other integrations, as WCM is a content management system that is mostly used by K-12 schools and districts in the US. In the first release of the Ally - Web Community Manager integration, Ally provides the ability to check the pages and embedded media in a WCM instance for accessibility issues, and generates an accessibility report similar to the LMS institutional report. Instructor feedback and alternative formats are on the roadmap for future releases. More information about Web Community Manager can be found at https://www.blackboard.com/school-websites/blackboard-web-community-manager.html. ## WYSIWYG content reporting Ally 1.12 introduces the ability to check content created in the LMS (through the text/WYSIWYG editor) for accessibility issues, and includes this data in the institutional report. This allows Ally to review a significantly larger part of the LMS content, and is a first step towards providing alternative formats and instructor feedback for this content. Note: This feature is currently only available for Instructure Canvas. Blackboard Learn, Moodle, and Moodlerooms require additional APIs and/or push notifications to support this feature. Those teams are working hard on this additional functionality, and we are hoping to enable WYSIWYG content reporting for Blackboard Learn, Moodle, and Moodlerooms as soon as possible. ## Additional language support Ally is now available in the following additional languages: - German - Italian - Turkish Availability in these languages includes the Ally interface, as well as the alternative formats (including the audio format). Note: Ally 1.12 was originally going to include the ability to post alternative descriptions for images provided through the instructor feedback back into the LMS, and we have been working with all of you to make the required API permission updates (https://usergroup.ally.ac/content/perma?id=4922). However, not all institutions have been able to make these permission changes in time. Therefore, the feature has not been enabled yet, as we didn’t want to introduce any risk over the holidays. The current plan is to enable this feature during the first week of January.