Introduction
Creating accessible course content ensures that all students can fully engage with learning materials and reflects St. Petersburg College’s commitment to inclusive, high-quality education. In response to the U.S. Department of Justice’s digital accessibility initiative, SPC is working toward full compliance by April 24, 2027, with a goal for every course to have all student-facing materials to have an accessibility score of 100%.
- SPC uses YuJa Panorama, an integrated Canvas tool, to identify accessibility issues and provide remediation options directly within courses.
Contents
What resources are available to me?
- Accessibility Guide for Faculty (updated monthly)
- IDEAS Team Members: The IDEAS team is in charge of the course content accessibility process and your IDS liaison is your primary point of contact for YuJa Panorama and course content accessibility questions. IDS liaisons are assigned by academic community.
- Accessibility Page in Faculty Support Community in Titan Hub
Recommended Workflow
Follow this recommended workflow to efficiently remediate accessibility issues and raise every item to as close to 100% as possible as well as your course’s Overall Accessibility Score to 100%.
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Work Through Your Modules First: Navigate to Modules and review each item one at a time. Make sure to click into each page. Files can be embedded within a page and the page’s accessibility score doesn’t indicate the file’s accessibility score.
- Focus on the YuJa icon next to each item
- Red Hexagon and Yellow Triangle icons indicate accessibility issues
- Use Panorama’s Fix Issue or remediation guidance to resolve problems
- Goal: Every item in Modules should display a green YuJa icon.
- Recheck Your Course Report: Once all items in Modules are green, return to the Course Report. Yuja automatically updates your course’s score. If your score is still low, reach out to your IDS liaison.
- Clean Up the Files and Pages Area: After remediating content within Modules, navigate to Files and Pages from your Course Navigation Menu to clean items within there.
For more info, visit the Accessibility Guide for Faculty on the IDEAS site.
YuJa Panorama Accessibility Checklist
If you've ever wondered how Panorama scores your course content and where the percentages come from: 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
Have Questions? Contact the Academic Technology Support Team
atst@spcollege.edu
Phone at 727-341-3500
(Hours: Monday - Friday 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. EST).
After-hours or weekend assistance? Contact the Technical Support Center at 727-791-2795 or onlinehelp@spcollege.edu
Want to Schedule a One-on-One or Group Session on Canvas or other instructional technology issues or opportunities?
Schedule 1:1 Support Help with a Member of the Academic Technology Support Team
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