Product Updates

We have successfully pushed an update to all Panorama instances residing in the United States, Canada and the European Union.

1. Updated Course Accessibility Report with Clearer Indications and Action Items

   The Course Accessibility report has been redesigned to provide clearer visual indicators, summary information, and more organized tables for detailed information.

   

2. Updates to Microsoft Office’s Word and PowerPoint Accessibility Engines

   Based on feedback provided by our partner institutions – submitted through the integrated Feedback tool or through our support channels – we have updated the Accessibility Engines for Word (docx, doc) and PowerPoint (pptx, ppt) documents to provide improved preview accuracy.

3. Improved Accessibility Score Calculations for Word Documents

   The heuristic used to provide Accessibility Scores for Microsoft Word documents has been improved to provide a better single-score assessment.

4. Updated LTI Role Mapping

   Updated the default LTI role mapping to be more representative of the permissions provided by each LMS’s base roles.

5. Updated Contents Tab with Clearer Indicators of Accessibility Scores and Additional Filtering Options

   The Contents Tab now provides clearer indicators of Accessibility Scores. Additional course and file filtering options were also implemented.

   

6. Improved Navigation Structure Aligned with Other Products in the YuJa Portfolio

   The navigation structure of the YuJa Panorama for Digital Accessibility product has been refined and aligned with other products in our portfolio for a more consistent user experience, better use of vertical space, and product branding.

   

7. Added Accessibility Status Information to the Institution Report

   Added a new courses tab inside the institution report, which allows administrators to easily view the accessibility status of their courses.

   

8. Refined Settings and Configurations View

   The Visualization configuration and Course Settings have also been updated to provide the ability to configure Panorama options within a single, integrated panel.

   

We have successfully pushed an update to all Panorama instances residing in the United States, Canada and the European Union.

1. Updated Institution Reporting User Interface

   The Institution-level report has been updated to provider clearer scorecards, trends indicators, and summaries. Over the upcoming releases, each report and screen will experience a similar update.

   

2. Improved Accessibility Checker for Issues That Span Paragraphs
   Improved the accessibility reporting for Microsoft Word documents with improved support for issues that span across the full paragraph.
   
3. Other Improvements
   • Accessible formats button now always fetches the latest, most up-to-date alternative formats instead of the latest versions available during the initial page load. Replacing a document now refreshes the page, to display the updated document.
   • Accessibility reports no longer show preview documents without the associated red lines (when applicable).
   • Improved compatibility of Microsoft Word contrast checking.
   • Improved the method of calculating accessibility scores for newly uploaded documents, including fixing the tendency for large and problematic documents to have an unusually high score.

We have successfully pushed an update to all Panorama instances residing in the United States, Canada and the European Union.

1. Reports and Configuration Now Available Within New LTI-based Application

   Unified and updated the Panorama reporting into a consolidated LTI-based application. Now all reports can be accessed within a unified LTI application. Please contact your Customer Success Manager for updated installation steps.

   

2. New Blackboard Plugin for Easier Installation
   The Blackboard installation steps just got easier with the release of a YuJa Panorama Visualization Plugin for Blackboard. This capability also adds an additional layer of security and integrity checks. Please contact your Customer Success Manager for updated installation steps.
   
3. New Configuration Panel within LTI-based Application
   Added ability to view the latest Visualization version, with the corresponding integrity hash on the Configuration panel.
   

We have successfully pushed an update to all Panorama instances residing in the United States, Canada and the European Union.

1. Faster File Scanning with Smart Prioritization

   In addition to the automatic background processing of newly added LMS content, Panorama now prioritizes newly added files to pages that LMS users have visited recently.

2. Per-Course Activation of Panorama within Moodle

   The YuJa Panorama for Moodle Plugin has been updated to support enabling Panorama on a per-course basis. To take advantage of this new capability, please request the latest Moodle plugin.

3. New LTI-based Canvas Application for Enabling Courses Selectively
   Canvas deployments can now take advantage of a new LTI application which provides Administrators the ability to enable and disable courses, as well as update how Panorama is configured with your LMS.
   
   
   
4. Support for Term-Level Reporting
   Instructors can select all terms, one term, or many terms to be included in both Course-level and Institution-level reports.
   
   
   

We have successfully pushed an update to all Panorama instances residing in the United States, Canada and the European Union.

1. Added Ability to Request Accessible Formats On-Demand Ahead of Queued Processing

   The Panorama integration with Canvas and Blackboard LMS platforms now makes it possible to request accessible formats to be generated on demand. Availability on other LMS Platforms to follow.

   

2. Improved Support for Blackboard SaaS Deployments vis REST APIs

   Blackboard is now fully supported using their new REST API protocols, enabling improved support for SaaS-based Blackboard deployments.

3. Additional Improvements
   – Resolved accessibility preview for PDFs that didn’t have accessibility issues
   – Resolved issues Accessibility Checker for PDFs not utilizing full capabilities

We have successfully pushed an update to all Panorama instances residing in the United States, Canada and the European Union.

1. New Feedback Feature to Provide Product Team with Improvements on Accessibility Alternate Conversions

   A new document accessibility feedback widget allows site administrators and course instructors to provide the Product Team with feedback about their experiences. The feedback widget can be found in two locations, the Institution Accessibility Report and the Course Accessibility Report. On both reports the feedback widget can be opened by clicking on the feedback icon located on the bottom right of the screen.

   We strongly encourage administrators and instructors to submit feedback as it helps guide our development to continue to deliver a product that meets your needs.

   

2. Improved Accessibility Report Layout Within LMS Viewport

   Course Accessibility reports and Institution Accessibility reports have been updated with an improved UI. This iteration is focused on improving user experience with many components having been restyled to be more responsive and decluttered.

   

3. Additional Improvements
   -Improved contrast of component selector buttons
   -Fixed course title getting cut off
   -Fixed long filenames breaking styling in Accessibility Reports
   -Fixed accessibility shortcuts not being invoked sometimes
   -Fixed issues not being correctly categorized in the Accessibility Reports
   -Improved loading performance of Accessibility reports