Panorama-Accessibility tool in Brightspace

This training introduces faculty to the Panorama Accessibility Tool in Brightspace, which includes a new feature called PDF Max. The tool is designed to help instructors improve course accessibility by providing an accessibility gauge that shows a content's score. It also offers accessibility reports that identify specific issues in course materials. For students, Panorama provides alternative formats like audio podcasts and EPUB files. A new tool, PDF Max, assists with the challenging task of making PDFs accessible by enabling users to perform OCR (Optical Character Recognition) on untagged or scanned documents and fix structural elements like reading order and alt text. The presenters emphasize the benefits of using HTML over PDFs, as HTML is an open format that is more easily fixed for accessibility and offers a better user experience on various devices. Recorded on April 8, 2026.