Product Updates

Over the next few weeks, the YuJa EqualGround Accessibility Governance Platform will be adding new features that alert users of accessibility issues as they are developing the website, allow users to exclude certain webpages from being scanned, and so much more. This release will also feature several interface updates and consolidations that simplify the user experience and provide better readability and usability for users.

1. Implement Code Best Practices Using Proposed Fixes

   Proposed fixes for improper code structure, incorrect code elements, and accessibility issues have been added to the Accessibility Report. Users now have a clear overview of improper code segments and the option to directly copy and paste proposed fixes, saving time on manual remediation while ensuring that your website has correct semantic structure and best practices.

   

2. Add Sites in Bulk from SharePoint Directly in YuJa EqualGround

   Users can now add and sync additional sites and documents from their SharePoint organization in EqualGround. In addition to a simplified workflow, SharePoint sites are now differentiated from the rest of the user’s sites in their website overview, introducing better visibility and management of their integrations.

   

3. Track Document Deployment Across Web Pages

   In the Document Tab, users can now see the total number of instances that a certain document is embedded in all their websites, and the particular website URLs that currently display the document. This provides more visibility for users to better manage and keep track of their documents, and allows them to have a reference of how the accessibility of their documents impacts the overall accessibility score of the webpage that they are embedded on.

   

4. Improved Accessibility Report Experience Across EqualGround Portal and Web Extension

   The EqualGround Accessibility Report UI is now consistent between the YuJa EqualGround portal and the YuJa EqualGround browser extension, providing users with a uniform workflow, better readability, and improved usability across web interfaces. The browser extension widget is also collapsible, allowing users to see highlighted elements on their page to make any adjustments with ease.

   

5. Experiment with EqualGround Capabilities for Free

   A free trial of YuJa EqualGround is now available on the YuJa website. Users can test EqualGround’s wide range of scanning and remediation capabilities on their website, helping them select the right YuJa product for their own organizational needs and policies.

   

6. Assess Real-Time Accessibility Improvements Using the YuJa EqualGround Accessibility Widget

   A Re-Scan button has been added to the YuJa EqualGround Accessibility Widget, allowing users to see updated results immediately after they make changes to their website using Element Inspector. Users no longer need to refresh the page to see updated accessibility scores, and can directly assess how their changes impact the accessibility of their webpage in real-time.

   

7. Export Policy Matches to Excel and Email

   Users can now export reports for policy matches to XLSX and email for data analysis, future reporting, and record keeping. With this added functionality, users have more flexibility, governance, and control over their data and policies.

   

8. Browse All Modules In a Consolidated Marketplace Menu

   Explore available and enabled add-on modules in EqualGround using a new consolidated menu in the Modules tab. Users can browse a wide range of optional features directly from this upgraded Marketplace without extra navigation away from or within the platform.

   

9. Get Instant Insight on Website Performance with New Color-Coded Percentage Analytics

   The Web Pages tab has been revamped with a fresh, consolidated look, letting users see percentages of the accessibility compliance, SEO optimization, usability, and general performance of all their websites. Websites requiring attention are visually communicated to the user with color coded statistics so issues can be addressed directly and promptly.

   

10. Analyze Your Webpage Using Expanded Insights in Exported Reports

    Exported Accessibility Reports now include additional insights into the overall accessibility of your webpages. On top of providing an accessibility score for each accessibility compliance standard, the report now shows the total number of issues associated with each standard across your webpages in Excel, JSON, and CSV formats, helping you prioritize remediation efforts.

    

YuJa EqualGround is introducing the DevAssist Module that helps users resolve accessibility issues directly in the VS Code IDE, saving time needed for retroactive manual remediation after web applications have gone live.

1. Make Accessible Web Apps From Scratch

   The YuJa EqualGround DevAssist Module leverages AI to provide quick fixes and detailed explanations for common accessibility issues such as missing captions, color contrast, and font issues in the VS Code IDE. Developers can improve the overall accessibility of their web app as well as the readability and structure of their code base, minimizing time and effort needed for retroactive remediation.

   

Over the next few weeks, YuJa Panorama LMS Accessibility Platform will be adding new features that allow users to make compliant video content, gain clear visibility into credit usage, easily apply settings across courses, and more.

1. Make LMS Videos Accessible Using the New Video Compliance Player

   Panorama’s new Video Compliance Player allows users to embed videos into their LMSs with an extensive toolset of accessibility features such as captioning, enhanced audio descriptions, and video chaptering. This appears in a dedicated Video Compliance tab in the sidebar, seamlessly integrating into Panorama workflows. Users can embed third-party content effortlessly without sacrificing captions or compliance features, providing an accessible and inclusive viewing experience for all learners. The Video Compliance Player comes with 5 hours of free credits every month, with additional credits available for purchase.

   

   Key features include:

   • Automatic Captioning: Effortlessly add captions to video content, ensuring that videos are easily understood by users, regardless of auditory ability.

     

   • Enhanced Audio Description: Make your institution compliant with Title II accessibility standards by using the Video Compliance Player’s detailed pause-and-play audio descriptions that foster an inclusive viewing experience.

     

   • Video Chaptering: Automatically break up long videos into smaller sections to make dense, information-packed videos easier to navigate, review, and understand.

     

2. Apply Settings Across Multiple Courses or Sub Accounts With One Click

   Admins, sub‑admins, and instructors can now apply the same Course Settings to multiple courses or sub-accounts at once. This eliminates the need to update courses or sub accounts individually, allowing users to save time and avoid duplications, inaccuracies, and inconsistencies.

   

3. Effortlessly Manage Panorama Add-On Credit Usage

   Panorama now provides admins with a data table clearly detailing add-on credit usage for AutoPilot and Structural Remediation. With this feature update, users will be able to manage add-on credit usage across the institution, assign credit limits for roles, and assign individual credit limits for users. With filtering, sorting, and export options, this consolidated data table simplifies credit management and helps ensure Panorama add-on products are being used in accordance with your institution’s specific needs.

   In AutoPilot and Structural Remediation Management, users will be able to:

   • Monitor credit usage across roles and users: Admins can see how many credits are assigned to and spent by users, along with the total credits for each role.

   • Assign role credit limits: Admins can change or set credit usage limits for roles. Each user with that role permission receives the set credit limit.

     

   • Assign user credit limits: Alternatively, admins can change or set credit usage limits for individual users. User credit limits override role credit limits.

     

4. Use the New User Simulation Feature to Monitor DocHub Libraries

   Admins can now view and manage the DocHub libraries of other users through the new User Simulation option. This grants admins the ability to monitor the accessibility and compliance levels of other users’ libraries, and permits them to work within other users’ environments. This new organizational governance improvement ensures that the integrity of a user’s library is preserved during the simulation process and unauthorized access into private folders is prevented.

   

5. Marking Images as Decorative now Supported in Word, PowerPoint, and PDF Documents

   Panorama’s inline remediation now lets users mark images as decorative with one click to resolve alt text issues when appropriate. The update is applied directly to the underlying file, so screen readers correctly ignore non-informative images, effectively reducing audible clutter while ensuring that documents are remediated according to compliance standards.

   Users can mark images as decorative in:

   • PDF documents

     

   • Microsoft Word documents

     

   • Microsoft PowerPoint documents

     

6. Easily Update User Emails Without Data Duplication or Loss

   Panorama now allows admins to easily update a user’s email address without manually recreating the user. Admins can quickly make changes to a user’s email field in addition to their first and last name directly within the Roster Management interface, or programmatically through the updateUserInfo API. This preserves all existing data, including roles, reports, and accessibility settings associated with the account, offering an intuitive and simple way to manage user information while eliminating the risk of data duplication or loss.

   

7. Get Insight on Your Institution’s Accessibility Performance Using Comparison Reports

   Admins can now see how their institution measures up against peers with the new Comparison Report feature. The report benchmarks your average accessibility score for the past year against fully anonymized data from other institutions, providing valuable insights on institutional compliance without compromising privacy. Users can also view the average accessibility score of different file formats, the number of issues auto-resolved by AlwaysOn Compliance, and Accessibility Insights. This makes it easier for admins to identify strengths, spot improvement opportunities, and make data-driven decisions to enhance their institution’s performance.

   

8. Manage Permissions Securely with the “ Content Developer” Role

   Institutions can now map the Content Developer role to the Panorama Instructor role. This lets designers improve course accessibility just like instructors, without granting access to admin reports or institution-level settings, and eliminates the need to enroll them as teachers in hundreds of courses. The result is a streamlined workflow, secure role management, and faster accessibility improvements across courses.

   

9. Improved Workflows for Human-Assisted Accessibility Issues

   Panorama now alerts users on edge case accessibility issues that could not be automatically remediated by the Remediation Engine. When an issue like difficult color-contrast requires manual remediation, it will be flagged by the Accessibility Report and identified to users through a pop-up modal. Users will also be provided with contextual guidance, tooltips, and remediation assistance to resolve them. With this new flagging system, users will be able to quickly identify difficult accessibility issues and take prompt action to fix them, in addition to reducing persistent flagging.

   

10. Faster Response Time for Large PDFs

    We’ve optimized the Accessibility Report, Alternative Formats, and Report Viewer functionalities in Panorama to handle large PDF files more efficiently. These performance improvements enhance responsiveness when viewing reports or generating alternative formats for dense course material such as textbooks. With improved responsiveness, large PDFs become easier to review and remediate at scale using Panorama’s accessibility tools.

Over the next few weeks, YuJa Intelio AI will be adding a new feature that allows users to generate transcripts in different languages.

1. Generate Multilingual Transcripts with Intelio AI

   Intelio AI now lets users choose the language of their recordings and generate transcripts in that same language. With seven common languages to choose from, users can break down language barriers and enhance learning by leveraging AccessNotes to create accurate transcripts, creating an overall more accessible experience for users learning from audio content.

   

Over the next few weeks, YuJa Structural Remediation will be adding new features that allow users to use Structural Remediation in Microsoft Word and PowerPoint, reprocess low-quality OCR PDF’s, and run OCR when using Add Elements.

1. New Structural Remediation Support for Microsoft Word Documents

   Structural Remediation is expanding its capabilities to support Microsoft Word, allowing all existing users to transform page elements directly in the LMS. Users will now be able to effortlessly adjust and add properties to elements on a page using the YuJa Structural Remediation Max Engine, improving overall usability for anyone using assistive technologies and saving valuable time for instructors.

   

2. New Structural Remediation Capabilities in Microsoft PowerPoint

   Structural Remediation now allows existing users to select elements in Microsoft PowerPoint documents to make changes such as adding alt text, altering structure, changing colors, and more, all without leaving the interface. Changes made by the user will be directly saved within the file, ensuring the file has proper semantic structure, reading order, and accessible elements. This update will help instructors assemble presentations that are both visually appealing and structurally accurate, allowing students who rely on assistive technology to have a seamless learning experience as well.

   

3. Enhanced OCR Reprocessing for Previously Tagged PDFs

   Panorama now enables users to re-run optical character recognition on PDFs that were previously processed with lower-quality OCR by other vendors. When retagging a document, users can choose to perform a fresh OCR pass using Panorama’s advanced engine, ensuring that image-based and handwritten content is accurately captured. After reprocessing the text layer, Structural Remediation can quickly analyze and correct complex accessibility issues. This streamlined workflow transforms poorly recognized PDFs into highly accessible, standards-compliant documents while reducing manual effort for faculty and improving usability for all users.

   

4. Run OCR when Adding Elements for Precise Document Remediation

   Structural Remediation now runs OCR when using the Add Elements feature. When selecting a target section for Add Elements, users will be given the option to use OCR on the existing text layer or manually enter text as the text source. By applying OCR where it’s needed, this update speeds up PDF remediation, reduces unnecessary processing, and gives users precise control over document accessibility improvements.