Product Updates

We have successfully pushed an update to all YuJa EqualGround Accessibility Governance Platform instances residing in the US, Canada, Australia, and the European Union. The release introduces an option to assign teams to manage specific page groups, an intuitive approach to start your website scan in minutes with our setup wizard, an option to scan and crawl multiple websites and page groups, and more.

1. Start Your Website Scan in Minutes With Our Setup Wizard
   YuJa EqualGround now features an intuitive setup wizard that streamlines your website scanning experience, guiding you through every essential step in one centralized flow. Within four simple steps, you can add or bulk upload websites to the platform, configure the scan scope and frequency, and initiate a scan to detect accessibility issues across your web pages and documents.
   
2. Website Scan Setup: Automatic Detection of All Websites Within the Top-Level Website
   Organizations that manage hundreds of websites will no longer have to enter each URL manually. YuJa EqualGround will automatically detect all websites under your top-level website (domain), allowing you to select the publicly accessible websites you want to configure for scans.
   
   
3. Website Scan Setup: Bulk Apply the Same Configuration Across All Websites
   When all selected websites require the same configuration for the scan depth and frequency, you can save time by applying the settings to all websites and beginning the scan immediately.
   
4. Assign Teams to Manage Specific Page Groups
   Building on our previous release, which allowed for assigning teams to manage an entire website, your organization can now designate teams to manage specific website sections by assigning them to page groups. This ensures each team has the necessary permissions, such as configuring scans, viewing accessibility reports, and analyzing web page performance for their assigned page group.
   
5. Scan and Crawl Multiple Websites and Page Groups
   Institutions with many sites can now choose to crawl or scan multiple websites or page groups rather than individually scanning each one.
6. Filter Website Reports by Page Groups
   You can now filter reports by selecting a page group, allowing you to focus on specific areas of your website for more detailed insights.
   
7. View Issues on Your Site and the Specific Pages Where They Occur
   You can now access a detailed list of issues detected on your website in the new Issues tab. This includes the number of occurrences and the specific web pages affected by each issue, allowing you to easily identify areas of concern.
   
8. More In-Depth AA and AAA Issue Detection for Web Accessibility
   Expanding on our existing accessibility checks, YuJa EqualGround now includes more detections for AA and AAA-related issues. Some of these checks include:
   • Web page contains descriptive headings and labels.
   • Components with the same functionality are presented consistently across web pages.
   • Ensure users have sufficient control over how content is presented to them.

   

9. View Full SEO Issue Names in Exported Report
   We’ve improved our exported SEO report to display descriptive names for all issue types to help you clearly understand the issues found.

We have successfully pushed an update to all YuJa AutoPilot AI Platform instances residing in the US, Canada, Australia, Singapore, the Middle East, and the European Union. This update includes the option to re-run AutoPilot to address newly flagged issues and revert changes from AutoPilot’s course scans.

1. Ability to Re-Run AutoPilot to Address Newly Flagged Issues
   You can now run AutoPilot multiple times on your files to ensure that any subsequent issues discovered can be resolved automatically instead of fixing them yourself. This is particularly useful when dealing with an untagged document, as AutoPilot may reveal underlying issues after tagging that would otherwise require manual intervention.
   
2. Revert Changes from AutoPilot’s Course Scans
   After successfully remediating an entire course using AutoPilot, you will now be given the option to revert all accessibility changes if desired.
   

We have successfully pushed an update to all YuJa Structural Remediation Max Add-On Platform instances residing in the United States, Canada, European Union, and Australia. This release provides an option to automatically generate a new tagged structure of your PDF document.

1. Automatically Generate a New Tagged Structure of Your PDF Document
   Ensuring a correct tagged structure in PDF documents is crucial for accessibility tools such as screen readers to access content in the right reading order. Structural Remediation Max now offers a one-click solution to automatically regenerate the tagged structure of your PDF documents, ensuring they are accessible.
   

We have successfully pushed an update to all YuJa SmartSpeaker instances residing in the US, Canada, Australia, Singapore, the Middle East, and the European Union. This update includes the option to instantly look up definitions for complex terms and translate content with AI-text recognition software.

1. Instantly Look Up Definitions For Complex Terms
   Expanding on its GenAI capability, SmartSpeaker now provides instant definitions for selected words or phrases, helping you to understand complex concepts easily.
   
2. Translate Content with AI-Text Recognition Software
   In situations where the web content is not in your preferred language, you can now translate text into any of our over 100 supported languages using SmartSpeaker’s AI text recognition.
   

We have successfully pushed an update to all YuJa Panorama LMS Accessibility Platform instances residing in the US, Canada, Australia, Singapore, the Middle East, and the European Union. This update includes a new marketplace of accessibility products, an option to reorder the Alternative Formats Menu, customize the DocHub Experience by creating default folders, options to treat images as decorative, and more.

1. Explore Our Brand New Marketplace of Accessibility Products to Help You Create, Remediate, and Engage With Your LMS Content
   When it comes to accessibility, there is a wide range of tools that specialize in how your content looks and feels. Whether you’re looking to create a welcoming home page on your LMS or want to give your users the freedom to customize elements to suit their needs, the Marketplace is a one-stop shop with everything you need. Browse our catalog of products and see what you like. When something catches your eye, contact your dedicated Customer Success Manager, who can help you learn more and set things up for your institution.   
   
2. Customize the Alternative Formats Menu by Reordering the Placement of Formats
   As an administrator, you can now reorder the formats in the Alternative Formats Menu to suit your institution’s preferences. For example, you can prioritize frequently used formats and display them at the top of the menu for more convenient access across your institution.
   
3. Customize the DocHub Experience by Creating Default Folders
   As an administrator, you can now create default DocHub folders, allowing you to set up specific folder structures based on your institution’s preferences for content management. Please note that users must be added after creating default folders for those folders to appear to them.
   
4. The Issues Report Provides an Overview of All Issues and in Which Courses They Occur
   When reviewing the issue report, administrators can now see all courses with a specific accessibility issue, along with the number of occurrences. This allows you to quickly locate courses with the highest instances of any particular issue and address them efficiently.
   
5. New Option to Automatically Exclude Decorative Images from Being Flagged as Issues
   In certain cases, your content may contain images marked as decorative with an empty alt tag (alt=””) or a custom decorative tag. To ensure that these types of images are not flagged as issues, YuJa Panorama now offers more flexibility for you to treat these images as decorative.
   
6. Verify that Hyperlinked Text is Descriptive
   Descriptive text for hyperlinks can be useful so that users have context on where the link will take them. However, in cases where the full URL needs to be displayed, such as a work cited page, you can now verify that it is not to be flagged as an issue in the Accessibility Report.
7. New Accessibility Check for Excessive Heading Levels in HTML Content
   We’ve expanded Panorama’s capabilities in detecting heading tags that exceed six levels for HTML content in the WYSIWYG editor, ensuring better compliance with the latest WCAG accessibility guidelines.
   
8.  Expanded Branding Options for Enhanced Customization
   We’ve expanded the branding settings to offer greater flexibility in customizing icons and the interface to match your institution’s preferences. Key updates include:
   • WYSIWYG Gauge Size: Customize its size to ensure a consistent display alongside other icons within your LMS’s WYSIWYG editor.
   • Login Page Branding: Upload a preferred logo for the login page to better align with your institution’s branding.
   • Predefined Color Options for Top Bar: Choose from modernized, high-contrast color options to maintain visual accessibility while matching your institution’s branding.
9. Fix Outdated File Formats Issue Within the Accessibility Report
   We’ve enhanced YuJa Panorama’s capabilities to not only identify outdated file formats and provide how-to-fix suggestions, but also offer an instant fix. Simply click the Fix Issue button to update your file format to the latest version.
   

We have successfully pushed an update to all instances residing in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the European Union. This update includes more powerful AI Detection capabilities for webcam recordings, a simplified test-taking experience on the Mobile Lockdown App, options to create registration windows for live proctoring sessions, proctoring guidelines for live proctors, and more.

1. More Powerful, Continuous AI Detection Capabilities to Identify Objects and People within the Webcam View
   We’ve enhanced our AI detection capabilities with a new real-time AI model that continuously identifies people and unpermitted objects. This improves the detection accuracy across various scenarios, such as when a test-taker’s face is not center-aligned, is obstructed from the webcam’s view, or when the environment has dim lighting.
2. A More Simplified Test-Taking Experience on the Mobile Lockdown App
   The mobile test-taking experience is now simplified into a three-step guided process within the LMS assessment page: connect YuJa Verity with the LMS, download the Mobile Lockdown App, and launch the app. Once on the app, Canvas test-takers will automatically be signed in to start their assessment, while test-takers of other LMS platforms can take the assessment after signing in manually. Future updates will provide the same auto-sign-in capabilities to Blackboard, D2L Brightspace, and Moodle.
3. Create Registration Windows for Live Proctoring Sessions
   Registration windows allow you to establish proctored live sessions that test-takers must register for before the window closes. This ensures there are no last-minute cancellations for the proctoring session and that the number of test-takers is finalized before it starts.
   
4. Provide Proctoring Guidelines to Live Proctors Before a Session Starts
   When creating an assessment that contains specific proctoring procedures or special accommodations, you can now include proctoring guidelines for live proctors to review before they join the session. This ensures they are well-informed about assessment details and prepared to accommodate specific needs before the session begins.
   
5. Remotely Deploy the YuJa Verity Lockdown App Across Multiple Devices
   If you’re an administrator for a large-scale or multi-campus institution, you can now remotely deploy the YuJa Lockdown App across all Windows devices using the new MSI installer.
   
6. Flagging for Unauthorized Website Navigation Attempts in the YuJa Lockdown App
   When test-takers attempt to access a restricted website during a Lockdown assessment, YuJa Verity will now not only block access to these sites but also flag the issue for review, ensuring greater transparency of unauthorized navigation during assessments.
   
7. New Progress Bars to Track the Upload of Proctoring Sessions
   After a proctored assessment is submitted, we now show the upload progress of all devices in real-time so that test-takers are informed of their status.
8. Updated Visuals Across the Verity Test Proctoring Experience
   We’ve updated our visual displays of images and text across the proctoring experience, including:
   • Modernized the Proctoring Readiness Check with visuals and updated step-by-step instructions.
     
   • Redesigned UI for the live proctoring end pages with clearer indications of why a live session has ended.
     

    

Exciting news! This week, we’re rolling out a significant product update across our Lecture Capture Portfolio! For the YuJa Software Capture for PC, this update includes a redesigned login page to align with that of the Video Platform.

1. Redesigned Login Page to Align with the Video Platform
   The login page of Software Capture PC has been revamped with a modernized design to align with the Video Platform’s login page, ensuring consistency across both platforms when logging in.
   

For the YuJa Software Capture for Apple, this update includes a redesigned login page to align with that of the Video Platform.

1. Redesigned Login Page to Align with the Video Platform
   The login page of Software Capture Apple has been revamped with a modernized design to align with the Video Platform’s login page, ensuring consistency across both platforms when logging in.
   

We have successfully pushed an update to all YuJa Engage Student Response System instances. This release includes a new profanity filter to prevent offensive language in responses, an option to visually display mathematical equations with a LaTeX editor, and the option release polls with unlimited response time.

1. New Profanity Filter to Prevent Offensive Language in Responses
   YuJa Engage now includes a profanity filter that detects offensive words in activities, providing a more respectful and inclusive environment when responses are given.
   
2. Visually Display Mathematical Equations in Activities Using the LaTeX Editor
   To help accurately display how mathematical equations should look in your activities, YuJa Engage now supports using the LaTeX editor to write them. You can then preview your content to ensure it looks as intended. 
   
3. New Option to Release Polls with Unlimited Response Time
   Polls can now be released without a time limit, allowing participants to respond at their own pace until it is manually closed.
   

This week, we’re rolling out a major product update across all YuJa Enterprise Video Platform instances. The highlights for this update include an option to customize the Media Library Sidebar for consistent branding alignment, a reorganized Media Library sidebar to prioritize key sections, an option to specify the Media Player’s language when linking or embedding videos, and more.

1. Enhanced Audio Description Now Supports Multi-Stream Videos
   Enhanced Audio Descriptions can now be added to multi-stream videos, allowing you to use our built-in editor to create descriptions for specific streams or our AI capabilities to auto-generate descriptions for selected streams.
   
2. Reorganized the Media Library Sidebar to Prioritize Key Sections
   The Media Library sidebar has been reorganized to prioritize key sections over others, such as the Course Channels now appearing in your Personal collection.
   
3. Customize the Media Library Sidebar for Consistent Branding Alignment
   Expanding on existing branding options for the login page and navigation bars, administrators can now customize the header font and background colors of the Media Library Sidebar, ensuring consistent brand alignment across the Video Platform.
   
4. Improved the Visual Display of information for Media Content
   We’ve refined the Media Player Page to present media-related information in a more structured and accessible format. Key updates include:
   • Tags and chapters are now displayed separately for direct and easy access.
   • A structured word cloud view with color-coded responses groups similar terms together for quick identification at a glance.
   • The document tab now includes file-type icons and a download button for improved navigation.

   

5. Share Live Stream Links Via Email
   As an administrator, you can now email the link to live stream sessions directly to your audiences from within the Video Platform, allowing for quicker distribution and broader access to your live events.
   
6. Specify the Media Player’s Language When Directly Linking or Embedding Videos
   To meet multilingual accessibility standards across websites, the YuJa Video Platform now allows you to specify the language of the Media Player interface before embedding or directly linking to a video. The supported languages are Dutch, Finnish, Portuguese, French, and Spanish. Simply copy the link of a media file and add “&lang=” followed by the short form of your desired language.
   
7. Share Direct Links or Embed Codes of Media Files with Enhanced Audio Description Enabled
   After generating Enhanced Audio Descriptions for your media files, you can now share the media link or copy the embed code with Enhanced Audio Descriptions automatically enabled.
   
8. Bulk Import an XML File to Upload Metadata Values for the Multi-Select Feature
   If you have a predefined list of metadata values to import as an XML file, you can now do so when creating a Multi-Select metadata field. Simply upload the file or paste its link to auto-fill your values.
   
9. New Option to Edit Comments
   Need to correct your comment? You can now simply edit it instead of having to delete and rewrite your thoughts.
   
10. Redesigned Login and Authentication Pages to Match Our Updated Branding
    The sign-in, password reset, and 2-step verification pages have been redesigned with a modern and consistent interface, offering a more intuitive login experience.
    
11. Revamped the Visualization of the Loading Spinner in the Media Player
    We’ve improved the loading visualization in the Media Player with a new rainbow spinner to provide a clearer view of when videos are loading.
    
12. New API to Automatically Update the Account Status of Users
    We have added a new API that allows you to update the status of users on your platform to Active or Suspended.

Exciting news! This week, we’re rolling out an update to our YuJa GenAI PowerPack! This update includes an option to auto-generate descriptions for video and audio files.

1. Use GenAI to Auto-Fill the Description Field for Video and Audio Content
   You can now use GenAI to analyze and understand caption files to automatically create accurate and engaging descriptions for your video and audio content.