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Accessing Accessibility Reports in Canvas

Accessibility Reports provide comprehensive insights into specific areas where your documents can be enhanced, offering valuable guidance for improvement.

  1. Log into Canvas and navigate to Files in your desired course.

  2. Locate your document, then click the Accessibility Icon to open the Accessibility Report.

  3. Panorama provides each document with an accessibility score. Click View All Issues to review the list of individual issues identified in the report that contribute to the score. 
  4. For each issue, click Fix Issue to see a summary of how to resolve the matter.
  5. Review the issue and the solution provided by Panorama. For more details on how to remediate issues, proceed to the next section. 

     

Using the Accessibility Report to Improve the Accessibility Score

Once you have read through the Accessibility Report, you can go through and fix the highlighted issues directly in your document. 

  1. Open the Accessibility Report. In the main issues page, click Fix This Document.

  2. Choose the method that you would like to fix the document with. We will focus on using Guided Remediation in this guide.

    • AI-Assisted Remediation With AutoPilot: Use AutoPilot AI to apply all AI-suggested fixes to the document. To learn more about using AutoPilot, please refer to this guide.
    • Guided Remediation With Assistance: Leverage Panorama's suggestions and recommendations to fix or skip each individual issue identified. 
    • Edit Structure With Structural Remediation: Use Structural Remediation to edit reading order, add tagging, and remediate other document structure issues. To learn more about using Structural Remediation, please refer to these guides.
    • Send to YuJa Accessibility Experts: Request remediation assistance from a YuJa Accessibility Expert. 

  3. Click Guided Remediation With Assistance.
  4. (Optional) Use the left and right arrows or the dropdown toggle in the top menu to switch between issues.
  5. (Optional) Check Add change to all instances of this issue to apply the same fix to all issues of the same type across the entire document.
  6. To apply suggested fixes or your own fixes, click Update Fix. To skip to the next issue, click Skip This Issue. In both cases, the Accessibility Report will automatically take you to the next issue. 
  7. (Optional) To dismiss an issue, click the dropdown button beside Skip This Issue > Dismiss Issue.
  8. After selecting fixes for all your issues, you can review your fixes using the dropdown menu. Once you're happy with your changes, click Apply Fixes to Document.
  9. The remediated document will automatically replace the old document in your Canvas course.

     

Accessing Alternative Formats

Students can generate alternative file formats to meet their own individual needs. Alternative Formats are generated on your documents automatically and do not require any extra configuration or editing in Canvas on your behalf.

  1. Log into Canvas and navigate to Files in your desired course.

  2. Locate your document, then click the Accessibility Icon to open the Accessibility Report.

  3. Click Alternative Formats.
  4. From the Alternative Formats Menu, choose the format that you would like to generate.
    • Source File: View the document in its original format, suitable for download 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.
    • Enhanced HTML: HTML documents can be displayed in a dedicated tab to customize the appearance of the document using the Website Accessibility tool.
    • 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 document
      • OCR Reconstructed DOCX: Generate a brand new DOCX file from scanned documents or images.
      • OCR Reconstructed Tagged PDF: Generate a brand new tagged PDF from scanned documents or images.
      • OCR Reconstructed HTML: Generate a brand new HTML file from scanned documents or images.
      • OCR Text: Recommended for those who’d like plain text, the OCR tool will extract and display text within images and GIFs as a TXT file.
      • 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.
  5. Alternative Formats are available to students by default. To disable it, toggle the option off on the bottom of the report. 

     

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