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Improving PDF Accessibility with Panorama’s Structural Remediation Max

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Creating accessible digital content is a critical part of supporting student success, but anyone who has worked with PDF documents knows how challenging remediation can be. Complex layouts, missing tags, and inconsistent reading order can make PDFs difficult for assistive technologies to interpret. To address these challenges, YuJa Panorama offers an advanced solution: Structural Remediation Max, […]

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Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2026

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Thursday, May 21, 2026, is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD)—a chance to celebrate the progress made at Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC) and to reaffirm our commitment to creating digital experiences that work for everyone. GAAD reminds us that accessibility is about access and opportunity—not just compliance or deadlines. While the federal digital accessibility deadline has been extended, the work happening

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Variations Between Accessibility Checkers

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Accessibility checkers available in Microsoft products and MyCourses may provide different recommendations for improving the accessibility of digital content. It is not uncommon for content to ‘pass’ the Microsoft Accessibility Checker and then have more accessibility issues identified by Panorama after being uploaded to MyCourses.  Accessibility checkers are often built to serve different purposes which can impact the recommendations offered by the checker. What

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Digital Content Accessibility: PDFs, with icons for accessibility, vision, touch, speech, and hearing.

Improving the Accessibility of PDF Files

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PDFs can be created in many ways: exporting, converting, “Save As”, scanning, “Print to PDF”, and even created intentionally through software like Adobe Acrobat. Due to the wide range of origin points for PDFs, the accessibility issues that arise can be incredibly complex, so much so that they are not a recommended file type in most cases.  Information Technology (IT) generally does not advise using PDFs whenever possible. They are one of the least

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Improving Digital Content Accessibility in MyCourses

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As you prepare your MyCourses courses for the spring semester, please review the Panorama Course Report to identify accessibility issues and implement fixes for webpages (HTML), Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, PDF files, and Excel spreadsheets. The example course report shown below indicates that the overall accessibility score for digital content in this course is 73%.

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Summer 2025 Information Technology Updates

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Introduction Welcome to the Summer 2025 semester!  Information Technology (IT) has made some changes during the break between spring and summer semesters. Take a moment to familiarize yourself with changes you may encounter and some announcements you may have missed.  Reminders Status Updates  Curious about whether a service or system is experiencing an issue? Review status.ggc.edu. 

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Academic Technology updates for December

Academic Technology Updates for December 2024

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New updates are coming to MyCourses and GoVIEW! See below for details, and please contact helpdesk@ggc.edu if you encounter any problems or have questions. MyCourses Ally to Panorama Transition GGC will transition from Anthology (formerly Blackboard) Ally to YuJa Panorama as the primary digital accessibility solution. Information Technology (IT) will disable Ally on December 19, 2024. Please

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