Overview
The Alternative Formats Menu can be accessed by both students and instructors by clicking the accessibility icon next to any document in Canvas, DocHub, or the Course Report. A detailed description of each document type can be found below.
Important! Alternative formats are not a magic wand to fix accessibility issues. A document that starts out with a poor accessibility score will generally result in poor-quality alternative formats.
Using the Alternative Formats Menu
Open the document's Alternative Formats Menu.
Select one of the accessible formats:
- Source File: Download the document in its original format.
- 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: Allow for text customizations, grammar options, and reading preferences while following along with the audio playback.
- Gradient Reader: Enhance 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 Braille Grade 2 format, suitable for download and viewing (a Braille reader is required).
- BRF: Download the document in Braille Ready File format.
- UEB: Download the document in Unified English Braille format.
- Audio Podcast: Audio playback for documents, suitable for both online and download listening.
- Enhanced HTML: View HTML content with additional elements and attributes.
- OCR: Convert images with text into machine-encoded text that can be searched and read by screen readers.
- OCR Overlaid PDF: Generate a tagged PDF that allows for selectable text overlaid on the original scanned document or image.
- OCR Reconstructed PDF: Generate a brand new tagged PDF from the scanned document or image.
- OCR HTML: Generate a new HTML file from scanned documents or images.
- OCR Text: Extract and display text within images and GIFs as a TXT file. Recommended for users who prefer plain text.
- OCR Immersive Reader: View scanned text with the immersive reader.
- OCR Gradient Reader: Read aloud scanned text with a guiding color gradient.
- OCR Audio: Extract text from within images and GIFs to create an MP3 text-to-speech audio player.
- OCR Semantic Text: Convert scanned text into readable, structured text while preserving context and layout.
- OCR Semantic Audio: Convert scanned text into audio with natural intonation and emphasis.
- 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.
- Math Immersive Reader: View a plain-text representation of mathematical expressions with the immersive reader.
- MathML: Extract mathematical equations from documents and convert them into HTML files.
- Language Translation: Translate the document into your selected language.