Panorama adds accessibility-focused features to GGC’s MyCourses environment. Panorama provides instructors with recommendations, examples, and training for improving the accessibility of content such as Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, and PDF files. For both instructors and students, Panorama offers alternate ways/formats to consume content. The alternate formats available include:
- 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 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. [screenshot]
- OCR Overlaid Tagged PDF: Generate a tagged PDF that allows for selectable text overlaid on the original document
- OCR Reconstructed DOCX: Generate a new DOCX file from scanned documents or images.
- OCR Reconstructed Tagged PDF: Generate a new tagged PDF from scanned documents or images.
- 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.
- Math Formats: Convert documents containing math equations into LaTeX, Math Text (i.e., numbers and symbols to words), MP3 files, or MathML. [screenshot]
- 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.
Panorama automatically generates these alternative formats for many MyCourses’ course files and makes them available for download without impacting the original file.
Panorama: Using the Remediation Engine (Instructor)
Panorama: Accessing alternative file formats (Instructor and Student)