YuJa Panorama Accessibility Checker

Introduction

The Panorama LMS Accessibility platform is here to assist in getting every piece of your course content (assignment, page, PDF embedded, etc) more accessible for your students

Accessibility Score icons are located next to each file type or along the top of HTML content and provide a quick summary of the Accessibility Score based on their color.

Accessibility Checklist

Panorama's accessibility checklist is based on the international accessibility standards outlined by the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and also includes additional checks created from feedback received from our users. Currently, Panorama checks for PDF, DOC, DOCX, ODT, RTF, PPT, PPTX, ODP, HTML, XLSX, XLS, ODS, and GIF file types.

YuJa Panorama's Accessibility Checklist

Adding tags and Alt text in Adobe Acrobat Pro

An alternate guide on using Adobe Acrobat to add Tags to your PDF or alt text to images within can be found here - Adding Alt Text in Adobe Acrobat

Maintaining Accessibility Scores When Copying Courses in Canvas

Tips:

1. Wait: Once you've remediated a course in YuJa Panorama, give it some time before copying it into another course it may need some time to process. 
2. Verify Accessibility after Import: Always use YuJa Panorama to review and compare course accessibility with the destination/new course.
3. File Naming Conventions: Encourage descriptive file names for images, so that if alt text drops, at least the file name provides context. This is not a perfect solution, but if there's no alt text on an image of an arrow pointing to the Submit Assignment button, submitassignmentbutton.jpg is better than “image123.jpg.

Faculty View of Yuja Panorama

• Red - Needs Immediate Attention (Major Issues)/low score

• Yellow - Medium Issues

• Green - Fine - no issues/high score

• Grey - Documents with disabled alternative formats
• Purple – The Accessibility score is being processed, can depend on the size of the file before it registers to its final color

The color coded Yuja Panorama icons are also viewable inside selected content.

 Student View of Yuja Panorama

Students don’t see varying colors/percentages. All assignments show a blue circle linking to the converted version of the files.

Accessibility Formats

• Source File: View the document in its original format, suitable for download viewing.
• PDF: View the document in PDF format, suitable for both online and download viewing.
• Text File: View the document in a pure text format without any formatting styles, suitable for both online and download viewing.
• Immersive Reader: Allows for customizations to text preferences, grammar options, and reading preferences while following along with the audio playback.
• Gradient Reader: Enhances visual word recognition when reading by providing a guiding color gradient.
• EPUB: View the document in the ebook format, suitable for any ebook reader application.
• Braille: View the document in the braille grade 2 format, suitable for download viewing (a braille reader is required).
• Audio Podcast: Audio playback for documents, suitable for both online and download listening.
• Enhanced HTML: HTML documents will be displayed in a dedicated tab to customize the document's appearance using the Website Accessibility tool.
• OCR: Convert images with text into machine-encoded text that can be searched and read by screen readers.

Accessibility Report

Note: Hover cursor over Accessibility Report, then select view.

The Accessibility Report offers various ways in which to resolve accessibility issues that have been identified under the Reviewed Issues list.

Below is an overview of each method.

• Fix Issue (Panorama's Remediation Engine): Manually add fixes for accessibility issues within the report, and then apply those changes to your document.
• How To Fix: Provides manual steps for updating the original document. Institution admins can adjust these steps.
• Replace with Alternative Format: Replace the original document with an Alternative Format generated by Panorama.

How to View Overall Course Accessibility Score

To see the overall accessibility score for your course, follow these instructions: 

1. Navigate to your course in Canvas and select Panorama from the course navigation. 
2. The menu will be collapsed in the left side of the window. Select the icon next to Reports and select Course Report from the dropdown menu. 
3. Inside the Panorama Course Report menu, you can view the overall accessibility score for the course (1), total files processed (2), files improved using Panorama (3), and the cumulative alternative formats downloaded (4). You can filter by date (5) and export the report (6) as well. 

Return to Previous Version

Once inside the Accessibility Report, scroll down to the bottom right and select the ellipses and then select Version History from the dropdown menu. 
 

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

Yuja Panorama can export a file into multiple optical character recognition formats (OCR). To access the OCR menu, navigate to the Alternative Formats Menu and select OCR Formats (1). This opens up the full OCR menu (2). 
 

• OCR Overlaid Tagged PDF: Generate a tagged PDF that allows for selectable text overlaid on the original scanned document or image.
• OCR Reconstructed DOCX: Generate a new DOCX file from scanned documents or images.
• OCR Reconstructed Tagged PDF: Generate a brand new tagged PDF from the scanned document or image.
• OCR Reconstructed HTML: Generate a new HTML file from scanned documents or images.
• OCR Text: Recommended for those who prefer plain text, the OCR tool extracts and displays text within images and GIFs as a TXT file.
• OCR Immersive Reader: use the immersive reader for OCR content.
• OCR Audio: Extract text within images and GIFs into an MP3 text-to-speech audio player. 

Alternative Math Formats

Yuja Panorama can export a file into multiple math formats. To access the math formats menu, navigate to the Alternative Formats Menu and select Math Formats (1). This opens up the full Alternative Formats Menu of math options (2). 

Math Formats: Convert documents containing math equations into LaTeX, Math Text (i.e., numbers and symbols to words), or MP3 files. 

• Latex: Convert documents into LaTeX document format.
• Math Text: Convert documents into printed English, including numbers and symbols.
• Math Audio: Convert documents to MP3.
• MathML: Extract mathematical equations from documents and convert them into HTML files.