Introduction
The Panorama LMS Accessibility Platform provides St. Petersburg College with the unique ability to correct the accessibility of digital content and provide alternative formats for users with learning disabilities.
Contents
- Faculty View of Yuja Panorama
- Student View of Yuja Panorama
- Accessibility Formats
- Accessibility Report
- Return to Previous Version
- Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
- Alternative Math Formats
- Accessibility Checklist
Accessibility Score icons are located next to each file type or along the top of HTML content and provide a quick at-a-glance summary of the Accessibility Score based on their color.
Faculty View of Yuja Panorama
- Red - Needs Immediate Attention (Major Issues)/low score
- Yellow - Medium Issues
- Green - Fine - no issues/high score
- Grey - prohibition sign is for documents with disabled alternative formats
The color coded Yuja Panorama icons are also viewable inside the content.
Student View of Yuja Panorama
Students don’t see varying colors/percentages. All assignments appear the same. The blue circle is what students see for for student view.
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.
- AutoPilot: Automatically proposes fixes for accessibility issues, which can be applied to your document immediately using the Panorama Remediation Engine.
- 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.
Return to Previous Version
Once inside the Accessibility Report, scroll down to the bottom right and select the ellipses (1) and then select Version History from the dropdown menu (2).
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.
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.
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?
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