Accessibility and Alternate Formats for Students Using YuJa Panorama

Introduction

The Panorama LMS Accessibility Platform provides St. Petersburg College with the unique ability to correct the accessibility of digital content and provide alternative formats for users with learning disabilities.

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Contents

• Student View of Yuja Panorama
• Accessibility Formats
• Audio Podcast
• Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
• Alternative Math Formats

Student View of Yuja Panorama

Students don’t see varying colors/percentages. All assignments appear the same. The blue circle is what students see for for student view.

Accessibility Formats

Click on the Image of a person next to the module. the symbol is an accessibility marker notifying you it has multiple formats for you to consume the content.

• 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 will be displayed in a dedicated tab to customize the document's appearance using the Website Accessibility tool.
• OCR: Convert images with text into machine-encoded text that can be searched and read by screen readers.

Audio Podcast

Yuja Panorama can Create Audio Podcasts from content in a module which can help students auditory process the information given them the ability to retain the information if they are Audio focused.

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

Yuja Panorama can export a file into multiple optical character recognition formats (OCR). To access the OCR menu, navigate to the Alternative Formats Menu and select OCR Formats (1). This opens up the full OCR menu (2). 
 

• 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. 

Alternative Math Formats

Yuja Panorama can export a file into multiple math formats. To access the math formats menu, navigate to the Alternative Formats Menu and select Math Formats (1). This opens up the full Alternative Formats Menu of math options (2). 

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.

 

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