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Overview
YuJa Panorama is a digital accessibility tool designed to help create more accessible documents and course materials. Panorama fully integrates with the Canvas Learning Management System (LMS) for real-time accessibility checks, accessibility scores, and suggestions to improve content. Panorama can also be utilized by non-LMS users via the YuJa Panorama platform, or the Microsoft Word and PowerPoint Add-In for assistance with accessibility remediation.
System Capabilities
Panorama does not scan all content in a Canvas course. Some content will need to be reviewed manually by the instructor.
Panorama scans and identifies issues with content added directly by the instructor, such as:
- Document files uploaded to Canvas, such as Word docs, PowerPoints, and PDFs
- Content created directly inside Canvas, such as pages, assignments, and modules
Panorama does not scan and identify issues with:
- Content added into a course by another plugin or tool, such as digital textbooks, most embedded content, etc.
- Content inside Canvas Quizzes (other than Quiz Description)
- Files that live outside of Canvas in places like OneDrive, SharePoint, or external websites
- Videos that are hosted on external platforms. It can flag if a YouTube video has been auto-captioned but it doesn’t verify the quality of those captions.
The Panorama website has a list of content specific accessibility issues that can be resolved with Panorama. Note we have Full-circle Remediation and Structural Remediation.
Additional support and tutorials are available on the YuJa Panorama Help Center.
Getting Started in Panorama
To get started using Panorama for Accessibility remediation, visit the resources below:
Getting Started with Panorama for Instructors
Resolving the Accessibility Issues for Your Documents
For further assistance in resolving WCAG 2.1 Accessibility Issues by file type, view the following resources:
Adding Alt Text to Images in Canvas Using Panorama
Restoring Your Document to a Previous Version
Course Accessibility Report
From the navigation bar of your Canvas course, select "Panorama." Clicking this item will open up the course accessibility report dashboard, and it will automatically create your Panorama instructor account. It is important to do this first, before attempting to use any of Panorama's other features.
The default view should be the course accessibility report for whatever course you’re in. If you’re an instructor for more than one course, you may have to choose from a list of your courses. The Course Accessibility Report includes a number of widgets:
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Overall Accessibility Score: The overall accessibility score for the selected course.
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Total Files Processed: The total number of files processed for the selected course.
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Files Improved Using Panorama: The total number of files improved when using Panorama's Accessibility Reports for the selected course.
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Alternative Formats Downloaded: The total number of alternative formats downloaded for the selected course.
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Cumulative Accessibility Score: Your course's cumulative monthly accessibility score. Results can be filtered by file type.
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Files Processed By Document Type: The total number of documents processed by Panorama for the selected course.
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Alternative Formats Downloaded by Format Type: The total number of alternative formats downloaded by students for the selected course.
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Content and Issues: View all files and their accessibility scores processed by Panorama, or change the tabs to view accessibility issues and the number of occurrences for individual file types.
Accessibility Scores and Icons
YuJa Panorama automatically assesses and scores items listed under the “Content” area of your course, including files you have uploaded, as well as pages created within Canvas.
Types of files and issues checked
Panorama checks and scores the following file types: PDF, DOC, DOCX, ODT, RTF, PPT, PPTX, ODP, HTML, XLSX, XLS, ODS, and GIF.
Panorama checks for specific accessibility issues in each document type, and some issues are rated as more severe than others when calculating an accessibility score. A full listing of the issues checked in each document type is available in the YuJa Knowledge Base.
Icon meanings
When looking at the course content listing, you will notice accessibility icons to the right of each file or page. These icons have different colors and shapes to reflect the accessibility score of that file.
- 90% and over is a High Accessibility Score and is represented by a green hexagon.
- 45-89% is a Medium Accessibility Score and is represented by an yellow triangle
- 0-45% is a Low Accessibility Score and is represented by a red pentagon
- The grey prohibited icon may indicate alternative formats are not available for this document, or the document has not been scanned by Panorama yet.
Important! The color-coded icons are only visible to instructors with YuJa Panorama accounts. Students will see a blue circle accessibility icon for all documents, with no indication of accessibility scores.
If you are an instructor but you only see the blue circle icons, it's because your YuJa instructor account has not been created yet. Go to your course tool navigation bar and select "Panorama” This brings you to the course report and automatically creates your YuJa Panorama instructor account. When you go back to your course content, refresh the page, and the color-coded icons with scores will now show.
Clicking on an icon will open a new menu, called the Alternative Formats menu.
Alternative Formats Menu Overview
The Alternative Formats menu opens when the accessibility icon is clicked for any document or page in the course content. Included on the Alternative Formats menu are the following:
- Accessibility Report
- Alternative Formats
For more information, visit Understanding Alternative Formats in Panorama: Accessing the Panorama Alternative Formats Menu – YuJa Help Center
Document Accessibility Report
In the top row of the Alternative Formats menu, an accessibility score will be shown as a percentage on the left. On the right will be a colored gauge icon with a number in a small black circle. The color corresponds to the accessibility icon colors detailed above. The number in the circle is a count of the accessibility issues found in that particular document.
Please note: Students have access to the Alternative Formats menu but they will NOT see the accessibility report at the top.
Clicking on the Accessibility Report row at the top of the Alternative Formats menu will open up the detailed Accessibility Report, where each accessibility issue can be explored and, in many cases, fixed. In this view, the document will appear on the left and the report details will appear on the right sidebar.
Fixing Document Accessibility Issues
Resolve the identified accessibility issues by:
- Clicking Fix Issue: Manually add fixes for accessibility issues within the report, then apply those changes to your document.
- Clicking Learn more: View the how-to-fix guides for fixing the accessibility issues manually.
- Replacing the document: Replace the original document with a more accessible version.
To Do List
On the far right of this top row, there is a stacked dots “More Actions” menu. Clicking on it will bring up several additional options. Most are self-explanatory, but the first choice of “Add To My To-Do List” will save this document in a list that can be accessed later. This may be helpful if you run out of time before you can fully address the issues in a document. You can easily find it again later in your To-Do List.
Your To-Do List can be found in the left side menu of your Panorama interface.
What are “Reading Order” Issues?
PDF and PowerPoint files will have a “check reading order” minor issue for every page or slide. Only a person can judge if a document’s reading order is logical or not. The “Fix Issue” button in this case is a prompt for the document owner to confirm a logical reading order. This can be done in the source program or by testing the document with a screen reader.
If you know your document has a logical reading order, check the box for “Verify reading order.” You can also check the box for “Add change to all instances of this issue” to take care of all pages and slides at once. Congratulations! Your accessibility score will now improve!
Getting Help for Panorama
To get assistance for Panorama, please refer to the Knowledge Base article: Getting Help for Panorama