Make Courses Accessible with Panorama
Here to Help. Panorama is the accessibility remediation platform that LMU provides faculty and students. It gives instructors step-by-step guidance to address accessibility issues in their digital documents, media. It integrates directly with Brightspace to be convenient to instructors and students alike. For students it generates accessible formats of the learning material, giving them alternatives that suit their individual needs and circumstances.
Benefits to Faculty
Instructors can take advantage of Panorama to ensure their learning content meets accessibility standards. Faculty can:
- Use auto-fix tools to make sweeping corrections
- Use edit-in-place tools to correct as you go
- Choose which alternative formats to show or hide
- Gauge accessibility of overall course, or file-by-file
- Privately view reports and analytics about your course
Benefits to Students
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Students get multiple ways to experience learning material because Panorama converts digital content into their preferred format. Panorama lets students do things such as:
- Adjust fonts, text size, and color contrast
- Convert text to read-aloud audio
- Use distraction-free features for focused reading
- Leverage visual, auditory, and cognitive preferences
Reference Guide
What You Should Know
Panorama gives step-by-step recommendations and real-time guidance on how to correct issues with common file types, such as PDFs, Word documents, PowerPoint slides, and digital images. While it provides diagnostics and suggestions, it does not replace human judgment. It acts as your accessibility assistant, while you control which fixes to prioritize and when.
What You Can Do
Use Panorama's adjustment tools to make corrections to any parts of your course content that it flags, to bring all of your learning material up to the standards of Digital Accessibility compliance. Refer to the Getting Started guide for best ways to begin using Panorama.
