Product Updates

Enhancements to the YuJa Full-Circle Inline Remediation Module add font-size remediation for PDFs, accelerating accessibility workflows, supporting OCR-related fixes, and reducing manual effort to meet compliance standards.

1. Accelerate PDF Accessibility with Font-Size Remediation The YuJa Full-Circle Inline Remediation Module now supports font-size remediation for PDFs, helping institutions quickly address accessibility flags that require OCR injection. This feature speeds up remediation workflows, ensures PDFs meet accessibility standards, and reduces the time spent manually fixing document text for compliance.

Rolling out over the next few weeks, new updates to the YuJa DocAssist Accessibility Module allow admins to review and approve instructor requests, helping institutions maintain workflow oversight, prevent misuse, and better manage accessibility remediation spending.

1. Approve DocAssist Requests to Optimize Spending and Workflow

   Administrators can now review and approve instructor requests for the YuJa DocAssist Accessibility Module before they are sent to YuJa. This ensures requests are intentional, prevents misuse, and helps optimize spending, especially for page-based remediation, while keeping workflows efficient and under institutional control.

   

The YuJa AccessNotes Note-Taking Platform is now the YuJa Intelio AI Knowledge Assistant, reflecting an expanded focus beyond note-taking to a personal, AI-powered student assistant that delivers instant, course-specific guidance, supports ongoing conversations, and centralizes course content for a more seamless learning experience.

1. YuJa Intelio AI: Your Personal Knowledge Assistant

   Intelio AI transforms course content into an interactive, AI-powered study assistant, helping students stay organized, informed, and supported throughout their courses. Accessible from the sidebar, students can ask course-specific or general questions and revisit previous conversations for continuous guidance.

   Key benefits include:

   • Instant, Personalized Support: Students get immediate answers about assignments, quizzes, deadlines, and announcements, keeping them on track without searching through course materials.

     

   • Seamless Study Experience: New chats can be created while older conversations remain accessible, allowing students to manage multiple questions and study sessions efficiently.

     

   • Centralized Course Guidance: Intelio AI provides one place for students to explore course content, reducing confusion and making learning more intuitive and efficient.

     

Over the next several weeks, we’re rolling out updates across all YuJa Panorama LMS Accessibility Platform instances. This release will introduce AI-powered alternative text suggestions for documents, enhanced PDF remediation, expanded accessibility checks for PDFs, automatic course scanning for Blackboard, and more.

1. AI-Based Color Contract Issue Remediation for PDFs While Maintaining Layout and Structural Fidelity

   Following significant advancements during its beta period, YuJa Panorama now provides fully supported and highly reliable color contrast remediation directly inside PDF files. The upgraded engine can intelligently adjust colors within the PDF content itself, while maintaining layout, typography, and structural fidelity. This allows YuJa Panorama to correct contrast issues at the source without disrupting formatting or requiring any external editing tools. The result is a smoother, more automated, and consistently accurate remediation experience across nearly every PDF scenario.

   

2. AI-Generated Alt Text Suggestions Speed Up Image Remediation Across All Major Document Formats

   YuJa Panorama will now generate alternative text suggestions for images across all document types, including PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and HTML. When you encounter a missing image description, click “Suggest Alternative Text” to get an AI-powered starting point, then refine it as needed. This reduces the time spent writing alt text from scratch while keeping instructors in control of the final description.

   

3. Improved, Context-Aware Highlighting of Accessibility Issues Directly on the Document

   Accessibility previews now benefit from a more advanced matching approach that interprets document structure with greater resilience to format changes. The upgraded system aligns visual regions in a more context-aware way, producing bounding boxes that track the true location of issues far more reliably. As a result, accessibility problems are easier to pinpoint even in documents that undergo heavy format transformations.

   

4. Faster Accessibility Report Loading for Large PDFs

   Large PDF files will load significantly faster in the accessibility report, reducing wait times when reviewing documents with extensive content or numerous accessibility issues. This performance improvement will help you work more efficiently without affecting alternative format generation or issue remediation.

5. Expanded Dismissal Options for Accessibility Issues

   Instructors will now be able to dismiss a broader range of accessibility issues directly from the report for greater control over the remediation process. Previously, only certain issues could be dismissed, whereas now, nearly all issues will include the dismissal option, making it easier to skip remediation when an issue doesn’t apply to specific content.

   

6. Automatic Course Scanning for Blackboard

   Blackboard administrators can now enable automatic scanning for new courses, eliminating the previous requirement for users to manually visit each course with the browser extension before YuJa Panorama could analyze it. This configurable feature will ensure comprehensive accessibility coverage across your institution by automatically detecting and scanning new courses, so you won’t miss courses that instructors or students haven’t yet accessed.

7. AutoPilot Metrics Added to Monthly Reports

   Monthly usage reports will now include dedicated metrics for AutoPilot and Structural Remediation when these features are enabled at your institution. These new sections will help administrators track adoption and measure the impact of these remediation tools, while providing clearer visibility into how automated accessibility improvements support your compliance goals.

   

8. Enable Manual Login Credentials for LTI and SSO Users

   Users who originally joined through LTI or SSO can now add manual YuJa Panorama credentials to their existing accounts when administrators allow it. Previously, manual credentials were limited to new account creation. With this enhancement, users gain greater flexibility to sign in directly through the Panorama portal outside the LMS or SSO flow, while administrators retain full control through the option to enable or disable manual credential setup.

   

9. New PDF Accessibility Checks Detect Table and List Structure Issues

   YuJa Panorama will now identify additional accessibility issues in PDF documents, including missing table summaries, list items outside proper list structures, and missing list item structure. These checks will help ensure PDF content meets accessibility standards for data tables and lists, making documents more navigable for screen reader users.

   

10. Link Text Accessibility Checks Will Be Expanded to PDF Files

    YuJa Panorama will now detect link text issues in PDF documents, including empty links and non-descriptive hyperlink text, such as “click here” or “read more.” These checks help ensure all links provide meaningful context for screen reader users, extending accessibility coverage that was previously available only for other document types.

    

11. Refreshed Email Design Provides a Modernized Experience

    All emails from Panorama, including registration, monthly usage reports, trial notifications, and course remediation updates, will now feature a modernized design that’s easier to read and navigate.

    

12. NPS Survey Timing Improved

    NPS surveys now appear after a user’s third login and one month of activity, ensuring feedback is based on meaningful platform experience rather than first impressions.

    

Over the next week, YuJa Panorama will receive new updates that improve accessibility workflows, including easier document remediation, guided setup experiences, personalized banners, better notification options, improved integration with tools like Microsoft Word, enhanced content support, and more.

And if you’d like to learn more about how you can leverage YuJa Panorama to streamline accessibility compliance through inline remediation, sign up for our upcoming webinar on October 27th, hosted by Yennhu Nguyen, Director of Client Success at YuJa.

Sign up today at yuja.com/webinars! 🎉

1. Automated Remediation for High-Priority Issues with AlwaysOn Compliance

   We are providing an extra accessibility boost for all institutions with our new feature, AlwaysOn Compliance. Now, each institution will receive a baseline allocation of daily credits at no cost. With these credits, Panorama will automatically detect documents have an accessibility score below 50% and improve them. You can revert the changes at any time, leaving you in control while benefiting from an automated remediation system.

   

2. New Panorama Add-In for Microsoft Word to Detect Accessibility Issues In Real Time

   Included with Structural Remediation, we now have a Panorama add-in for Microsoft Word that will detect accessibility issues as you create your document. This allows you to review accessibility issues in real time without having to save and upload the document to your LMS, ensuring content is more accessible from the start.

   

3. New Options to Try Out AutoPilot for Free

   You will now be able to try AutoPilot for free directly on YuJa.com. Upload your own document or use one of our sample documents to see how AutoPilot automatically remediates content for accessibility. It’s a quick, no-commitment way to see how our tools make content more accessible for all.

   

4. New Options to Try Out Structural Remediation for Free

   You will now have access to a free trial of Structural Remediation on YuJa.com. Simply upload a PDF to see how Structural Remediation improves its reading structure for individuals using assistive technologies, such as screen readers. It’s a quick and easy way to experience how a more accessible structure leads to a more inclusive experience for all users.

   

5. A New Guided Experience for Integrating YuJa Panorama with Your LMS

   You can now go through a guided setup that takes you through missing learning management system (LMS) integrations. New institutions can use this as a checklist to set up their LMS integration with YuJa Panorama and start processing documents from day one. You can minimize, expand, or close the guide window at any time, so help is always available without getting in the way.

   

6. Quick Launch for Document Remediation

   We are now providing a large scale remediation process that will allow instructors to switch between documents in their course quickly. From the Course Report, select “Launch Remediation” to review and fix a document’s accessibility issues, then easily move to the next one using a curated list of your documents.

   

7. Turn Math Images in Documents into Accessible Searchable Content

   When converting documents to an OCR HTML Alternative Format, Panorama will now convert any images of math formulas to MathML, ensuring complex equations are accessible to screen readers and searchable for easier studying.

   

8. Faster, High-Quality Text-to-Speech Conversion

   Text-to-speech conversion from the Alternative Formats Menu is now faster and more powerful than ever. With our new processing engine, audio files are now generated up to 10% faster, with noticeably improved sound quality.

   

9. Smarter PDF Conversion with Auto Tagging

   We have set a new benchmark for accessible PDF auto-tagging with tags that more accurately preserve the document’s content while keeping files close to their original size. While other leading tools generate tags that can lead to much larger file sizes and disruptions to the content, Panorama closely aligns with the original source file, ensuring tags are generated to improve accessibility.

10. Send Accessibility Alerts to Course Instructors

    As an admin, you can now enable automated alerts that notify instructors when accessibility scores for their courses dip below a specified threshold. Alerts can be sent out in multiple ways:

    • Email Alerts: Send out automated emails to instructors.

    • Banner Alerts: Display a banner to instructors at the top of a course.

    You can enable one or both alerts to ensure they are seen by instructors. Each type of alert features a quick launch remediation button, guiding instructors through a step-by-step process to help fix issues. By catching issues early, instructors can stay on top of their courses and provide a better learning experience for every student.

    

11. Status Alert for When the Panorama Visualizer Does Not Detect Activity

    An alert banner will now appear to notify you if the Panorama Visualizer has not been installed. The Visualizer enables Panorama content, such as accessibility icons, to appear in the LMS, providing access to alternative formats. The Visualizer banner will also display if no activity has been detected in the last 24 hours, notifying you of potential misconfiguration.

    

12. Explore the Latest Product Updates

    Check what is upcoming for Panorama and our other products directly from the Platform.

    

    • See Panorama Updates: Visit the new “Latest Updates” section to see what’s coming next and the features we have added in recent releases.

    • View Updates for Other Products: Updates for our other products can be accessed through the Marketplace, helping you learn more about products that interest you.

13. Add a Static IP Address to Your Network Allowlist for Panorama Connections

    You can now route all Panorama traffic through a single static IP address for your institution. This improves compatibility with strict firewall policies and prevents blocked requests by your network. To enable this feature, contact your Client Success Manager to activate the static IP for your account, and then add it to your network allowlist.