Panorama
Getting Started with Panorama
What is Panorama
Panorama is a digital accessibility platform, which is available to Macalester students, faculty, and staff to improve the accessibility and overall usability of digital course materials.
Until now it’s been difficult for faculty to know if the materials they upload to Moodle are accessible. Panorama takes the guesswork away by automatically analyzing documents on Moodle and letting faculty know whether they need to be fixed or not. Panorama provides not only step-by-step instructions on how to make the document accessible, it also provides built-in tools to quickly and easily fix the document within Moodle.
Understanding Accessibility Reports
Once Panorama has finished scanning all documents, the Accessibility Reports will be displayed under the Accessibility icon for your documents.
For a more detailed breakdown of the Accessibility Core, click on the Accessibility icon. Next, click on the Accessibility Report tab to open the full Accessibility Report.
Under the View Issues section, the Content Owner can scroll through the summary of issues. The View Issues section will summarize all missing accessibility components, from missing page numbers, missing titles, or issues with color contrasts.
Every issue found will include a summary of how to resolve the matter under the How to Fix drop-down menu.
Improving the Accessibility Score
Once Content Owners have read through the Accessibility Report, they can go through and fix the highlighted issues directly on the document.
Once all of the improvements have been made, the Content Owner can drag and drop the corrected document into the Accessibility Report window under the Upload Improved Version section or use the remediation engine. Here’s a link to Yuja’s remediation guide.
Accessing Alternative Formats
Due to the variety of viewer needs today, students can retrieve alternative file formats to meet their individual needs. Whether a visually impaired viewer requires text-to-speech narration for easier access to digital content, or if they prefer to read the document in a more convenient web format, Panorama’s Alternative Formats is a great resource available directly within the LMS course section.
Alternative Formats are generated on documents automatically and do not require any extra configuration or editing in Moodle on your behalf.