Panorama LMS Accessibility Platform overview

Below is an overview of the features available.



• Admin Accessibility Dashboard: A general report on how Panorama has helped your institution with overall remediation workflow metrics, your institution's accessibility score, and the amount of hours saved with Panorama. 
• DocHub: A personalized repository for admins, instructors, and students to efficiently organize and store their files.
• To-Do List: Add files to your to-do list to help keep track of tasks.
• Website Widget: The Website Accessibility Widget allows you to adjust the content and color of web pages. 
• AutoPilot: Automatically suggest fixes for detected accessibility issues in documents and courses.
• Reports: 
  • LMS Report: Access the overall accessibility performance of your LMS, including the cumulative accessibility score and analytics of all courses.
  • Issues Report: View all issues across your institution and the number of times they appear in each course.
  • Content Report: Access a summary of the file uploaded and Alternative Formats downloaded for your institution.
  • Storage Report: View a summary of the storage used by your institution, aggregated by time and document type.
  • Course Report: Both instructors and admins can view course accessibility scores, popular downloads, and a content summary of the selected course.
  • AutoPilot Report: The overall usage of AutoPilot across your institution. 
  • Website Report: View a summary of your institution's usage on the Website Accessibility Widget, organized by content and color adjustment.
• Workflow: A built-in project management tool that allows institutions to organize and track accessibility improvements directly within Panorama.
• Configuration: Admins can adjust how Panorama is enabled across the LMS.
  • General Settings: Access the institution settings, course settings, and user settings for Panorama.  
  • Scope Settings: Select a scope to enable Panorama for: all scannable courses, selected LMS accounts only, or selected courses only.
  • Scoring Model: Customize the accessibility scoring rubric to determine how accessibility scores are calculated across your institution. 
  • Roster Management: Manage user roles in Panorama by adjusting permissions for existing users synced through LMS or adding new users outside the LMS to Panorama.
  • Integration Settings: Manage the Panorama integration with your LMS.
  • Branding Settings: Customize your Panorama's pages, accessibility icons, and how-to-fix guides to align with your institution's branding and accessibility requirements.
  • Institution Information: View information related to your institution, such as your Panorama Platform URL, institution ID, LMS type, etc.
  • User Setup: Setting up the Panorama Browser Extension on your devices.
  • Modules: View the usage and credits available for your Panorama modules. You can contact your Account Manager to make any adjustments. 
• CustomAccess: View and manage the students' requests for custom alternative formats.
• Marketplace: Explore more products for your institution, including enterprise video management, LMS accessibility, assessment proctoring, lecture capturing, real-time student response system, and more.
• Activity: View past activities on your Panorama platform.

• Blue circle icon: Accessibility icon (Student View)
• Dark Green octagon icon: Very high accessibility scores
• Green hexagon icon: High accessibility scores
• Yellow triangle icon:  Medium accessibility scores
• Red hexagon icon: Low accessibility scores
• Red rounded hexagon icon: Very low accessibility scores
• Grey prohibition icon: Your institution has disabled the alternative formats for this document
• Purple circle icon: The file is being processed for accessibility

Note: As an admin, you can customize the accessibility icons and colors by navigating to Configurations > Branding Settings > Accessibility Icons. 

1. Open the Accessibility Report by either: 
   • Within your LMS, click the Accessibility Score icon next to your file.
   • Within Panorama, select DocHub from the side navbar and click your desired file, then click Accessibility Report.
2. Resolve the accessibility issue by:
   • Using AutoPilot: Automatically proposes fixes for accessibility issues, which can be applied to your document immediately. Learn more about using AutoPilot.
   • Using Guided Remediation: Manually add fixes for accessibility issues within the report, then apply those changes to your document.
   • Using Structural Remediation: Use Panorama's inline structural remediation solution to address structural issues in PDFs to ensure they are accessible and properly formatted.
   • Sending to YuJa Accessibility Experts: Use YuJa's professional remediation services to correct accessibility errors in your documents. 
   • Clicking Learn more: View the how-to-fix guides for fixing the accessibility issues manually. Institution admins can adjust the how-to-fix guides according to the institution's accessibility practices.
   • Replacing the document: Replace the original document with a more accessible version.

• Source File: View the document in its original format, suitable for download or viewing.
• 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: Allows for customizations to text preferences, grammar options, and reading preferences while following along with the audio playback. 
• Gradient Reader: Enhances 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 the Braille grade 2 format, suitable for download viewing (a braille reader is required).
• Audio Podcast: Audio playback for documents, suitable for both online and download listening.
• CustomAccess Formats: Enables students to request course materials in personalized formats created by instructors or YuJa's accessibility experts. 
• Enhanced HTML: HTML documents will be displayed in a dedicated tab to customize the document's appearance using the Website Accessibility tool.
• Word Documents: Convert scanned and untagged PDF documents into accessible Microsoft Word DOCX documents to directly make edits from the previous uneditable format.
• OCR: Convert images with text into machine-encoded text that can be searched and read by screen readers. 
  
  • OCR Overlaid Tagged PDF: Generate a tagged PDF that allows for selectable text overlaid on the original scanned document or image.
  • OCR Reconstructed DOCX: Generate a new DOCX file from scanned documents or images.
  • OCR Reconstructed Tagged PDF: Generate a brand new tagged PDF from the scanned document or image.
  • OCR Reconstructed HTML: Generate a new HTML file from scanned documents or images.
  • OCR Text: Recommended for those who prefer plain text, the OCR tool extracts and displays text within images and GIFs as a TXT file.
  • OCR Immersive Reader: Use the immersive reader for OCR content.
  • OCR Audio: Extract text within images and GIFs into an MP3 text-to-speech audio player. 
• 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. 
  • MathML: Extract mathematical equations from documents and convert them into HTML files.
• Language Translation: Translate a document automatically to over 100 languages, which can be downloaded.

• Adjustments:
  • Summary: Quickly apply profiles, color, or content adjustments to your page.

  • Color Adjustments: Create an accessible viewing experience by adjusting contrast and saturation, highlighting specific elements, changing text colors, and more.

  • Content Adjustments: Adjust the content on a web page by modifying the line height, letter spacing, and font selection to create a readable and accessible viewing experience.

• Preferences: Provides the option to temporarily or permanently hide the Website Accessibility Widget icon.

• Profiles: Select a predefined set of accessibility improvements, such as the ADHD profile, which removes visual clutter and provides a reading mask, or the Seizure & Epileptic profile, which eliminates blinking, flashing, or flickering visuals.

• Formats: View a list of all documents found on the web page. 

 

1. Edits: Customize your inserted structures, elements, navigations, lists, and embedded content.
2. Insert: Select items to add to your editable HTML area to begin creating accessible content.
3. Templates: Save and reuse designs created with the LMS Content Designer in other areas of your LMS. 
4. Themes: Provides the option to save an item's color, spacing, and sizing to create its personalized style. Items can then be grouped into a Theme that can be saved and used when creating new designs.