YuJa Panorama for Digital Accessibility – Update RC20220610 Released to US, CAN, and EU Zones

We have successfully pushed an update to all instances residing in the United States, Canada, and the European Union. This Panorama update has broadened the scope of website accessibility, added language translation and increased performance for accessibility report generation.

1. Website Accessibility Add-On Now Offers More Accessible Page Viewing
   To offer a more accessible viewing experience for those interacting with your institution’s public website, we added a new Content Adjustments tab within the Website Accessibility Add-On. From here, any website viewer can instantly adjust their personal viewing experience of your institution’s website including: Content Spacing, Font Sizing, Line Height, Letter Spacing, Font Readability, Text Alignment, Title Highlighting, and Link Highlighting. This is in addition to the existing Accessible Formats generated for all PDFs, PowerPoints, Word documents that are linked off your website. To learn more about this feature, please click here.
   

2. Documents Can Now Be Translated Into Multiple Languages
   Panorama has broadened its definition of an alternative format to now include the document’s language. Students may not always be the most familiar with the language a document is uploaded in. Panorama now offers the ability for a student to translate a document instantly to over 100 languages. To learn more about this feature, please click here.
   
3. Accessibility Reports Can Now Be Generated Automatically
   In Panorama’s most recent release, we shifted the way we generate alternative formats, to be on-demand. However, after listening closely and working with our clients we now understand that many institutions would like the Accessibility Report for all files uploaded to be automatically generated. We now provide a setting in the LTI app that enables automatic report generation. When this setting is enabled, all files uploaded will have their Accessibility Report automatically generated. This setting can be set at the institution level and overridden at the course level. To learn how to enable this feature, please click here.
   
4. Colored Icons for Instructors to Easily View Accessibility Scores

   Instructors can now quickly and easily determine the Accessibility Score of a file they’ve uploaded through the color of the Alternative Format icon.

   Green is for Accessibility Scores greater than 70%
   Yellow is for Accessibility Scores between 30% and 70%
   Red is for Accessibility Scores less than or equal to 30%

   Note: This functionality is only available for instructors. Students will always see the standard blue icon.
   
   
   Instructors can also hover over any Accessibility icon to view a tooltip displaying the report score:
   

5. Icons Hidden for Non-Supported File Formats
   Icons for files that are not supported by Panorama will now have their icon hidden.
   
6. Enhanced HTML Accessibility Reports for Better Visual Representation on All Screen Sizes
   We have increased the LMS locations where HTML Accessibility Reports will be generated, has improved the quality of the reports, as well as enhancing the visual compatibility of viewing these reports with devices of all sizes.
   
7. Optimization Upgrades
   Users will notice faster processing speeds for Accessibility Reports and Alternative Formats during large spikes of requests with minimal impact on processing time.