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Accessibility Gauge

The Accessibility Gauge is located in the toolbar anywhere content is editable within Brightspace. The gauge provides real-time feedback and an “Accessibility Score” based on common accessibility issues. Clicking on the gauge opens the Accessibility Report sidebar where you can view and fix the issues by clicking a “Fix Issue” button.

The same accessibility scores are also visible next to Content Topics and other items in your course. Clicking on any of these Score Icons opens the Alternative Formats menu and access to the Accessibility Report for the item.

The following icons identify the accessibility scores:

• Hexagon, Green: 70% or more
• Triangle, Yellow: 30% to 69%
• Octagon, Red: 0% to 29%
• Timer, Gray: Pending or unscanned
• Circle Backslash, Gray: not available (the document has not been scanned or cannot produce an accessibility score)

Note: Scores are visible to the Instructor even when using “View as Student”

Accessibility Report 

The Accessibility report can be accessed from the Accessibility Gauge anywhere content is being edited (A), or from the Score Icons next to content in Brightspace (B). The Accessibility Report is where you can view and fix issues with your content. It will function slightly different while editing content or for different types of content like HTML pages or PDF files, but these differences are small. The Accessibility report has up to three sections:

1. The Accessibility Report panel provides the user information about the score and list of issues found in the document.
2. The Review Issues section lists the issues identified in the content and allows users to fix the issue (Fix Issue button) or find more information on how to fix the issue if an automatic fix is not possible (How To Fix button).
3. The Update Document section provides a place to upload a new improved file that would replace the file with issues (Upload tab) and a place to view staged Fixes that are ready to be saved with the Apply Changes button (Fixes tab).
   • Note: The Update Document section is not present when accessed while editing content since all changes are applied immediately after “Fix Issue” is clicked.

PDF Remediation

Note: The PDF Structural Remediation Engine Max rarely goes by its full name; you might see any combination of these words, but as of writing this article they all seem to refer to the same tool. We’ll call it the PDF Remediation tool.

The PDF Remediation tool can be accessed from the Accessibility Report of a PDF. The Launch button near the top of the right sidebar under the score details will open the tool. Some Fix Issue buttons will also open the tool. The PDF Remediation tool is where you can edit the underlying data of the PDF to make the document more accessible.

With the PDF Remediation tool you can:

• View and Edit the Reading Order of a PDF
• Label tags within the PDF
• Delete tags within the PDF

Working with PDFs can be complicated. We have several more in-depth guides in the Panorama Guides section below.

Course Reports

 

You can find the Panorama Dashboard under Help in the PCC Default Navbar. If you are using a different navbar contact an ITS about how to add the Panorama dashboard link. From the dashboard, instructors may view course reports and adjust settings for their courses. Below is a breakdown and overview of each section and the features available for instructors.

• Overall Accessibility Score: The overall accessibility score for your courses.
• Total Files Processed: The total number of files processed for the selected course.
• Files Improved Using Panorama: The total number of files improved when using Panorama’s Accessibility Reports within a course.
• Alternative Formats Downloaded: The total number of alternative formats downloaded.
• Files Processed By Document Type: Filter by type of file like a Web Page or PDF.
• Alternative Formats Downloaded by Format Type: Filter by type of file like Web Page of PDF.

Alternative Formats

The Alternative Formats Menu is accessed by clicking the Score Icon next to the associated content. For instructors you can see a concise Accessibility Report with a link to open the full Accessibility Report. Students can not see the report but have a similar Alternative Formats Menu. You can use this menu to generate, convert and download different types of content such as HTML to EPUB or OCR a PDF. Some formats allow low distraction ways to view the content. Here are some of the available alternative formats:

• Original, PDF, and Text Formats: View documents in their original, PDF, or plain text formats, suitable for both online viewing and downloading.
• Customizable Readers: Use Immersive Reader for text preferences and audio playback, Gradient Reader for visual assistance, and Braille for tactile reading (requires braille reader).
• Ebook Format: View or convert documents to EPUB format for ebook readers.
• Audio: Listen or convert documents to audio.
• Enhanced HTML: Customize document appearance in a dedicated tab using HTML.
• OCR Tools: Convert images to machine-readable text, tagged PDFs, DOCX, HTML, or audio, suitable for screen readers and text extraction. Very useful for working with PDFs.
• Math Formats: Convert documents with equations into LaTeX, Math Text, MP3, or MathML.
• Language Translation: Translate documents into over 100 languages for download. Similar to Google Translate.