Welcome to UNO’s Digital Accessibility Challenge: Every Student, Every Course!
Welcome to the Digital Accessibility Challenge: Every Student, Every Course. We are glad you’re here. This challenge is designed to be flexible, practical, and supportive as you make your Canvas course(s) more accessible.
How the Challenge Works
The challenge is self-paced. You decide when and how quickly you move through the materials. However, our goal is to have all courses accessible by January 2026, so pace yourself accordingly.
- Each page in this program focuses on a specific accessibility area (such as headings, links, images, or color).
- As you move through each page, you’ll learn why the area matters, see examples, and find practical tips. Then, you’ll apply what you’ve learned by fixing your own course content.
- Progress happens step by step. You don’t need to remediate everything at once. Small changes add up.
Support Along the Way
You are not doing this alone. The Digital Accessibility Office is always available to answer questions or walk you through fixes. Book a time to meet with us!
- You’ll receive bi-weekly check-in emails with a short form where you can update your progress. This helps us celebrate your wins and provide extra support if you need it.
- Additional resources and tools are linked throughout the program so you can go deeper when you’re ready
Your Role
Work through the pages in order, or start with the area that feels most manageable.
- Apply the changes to your course as you go.
- Use YuJa Panorama to guide and confirm your improvements.
- Keep an eye on your email for check-ins and opportunities to ask for help.
A Note About Documents
This challenge focuses only on improving accessibility within Canvas — things like headings, links, images, and media. We are not asking you to remediate documents (Word, PowerPoint, PDFs) during this stage. Once you complete the steps in this challenge, we’ll follow up with guidance and support to help you make your documents accessible.
Next Step
Below, you’ll find an overview of YuJa Panorama, our accessibility tool on Canvas. Before you jump into the challenge, get to know Panorama.
When you're ready, select the first topic and begin making your course more accessible. Each step you take moves UNO closer to full compliance and, more importantly, ensures that every student has equal access to learning.
What is YuJa Panorama?
YuJa Panorama is UNO’s accessibility tool for Canvas courses. It is the main tool we’ll use to improve the accessibility of Canvas courses. It scans course content, identifies issues, and provides clear guidance on how to fix them. The tool connects directly to the areas we are working on in this challenge: headings, links, lists, tables, color, images, and video/audio.
As a first step in this challenge, we recommend that you get familiar with YuJa Panorama, as it will be an essential tool in ensuring your pages and assignments are accessible. Review the information below to get started.
Panorama in Pages and Assignments
When you go to edit a page or assignment, you may have noticed the “temperature gauge” in the bottom right corner of the rich content editor.
This accessibility gauge will show up as green, yellow, or red depending on the accessibility score of the material in the rich content editor. Similar to a gas gauge, the location of the dial will depend on the score.
The Panorama Accessibility Checker checks a variety of accessibility issues. When you select the gauge, the accessibility report will appear for you on the right side of your screen.
For each issue, it will explain what the issue is, give you directions on how to fix it, and give you the opportunity to fix the issue.
Panorama Dashboard
Your Panorama Dashboard can be accessed by selecting Panorama from your course navigation. Make sure Panorama is enabled! If you don’t see it on the left-side navigation in your course, go to Settings and then Navigation, find Panorama, select “enable” and then “save.”
At the bottom of the Panorama Dashboard, you have the ability to search through issues and view the accessibility report for each one.
Need Help?
- Stop by our Virtual Support Drop-In Zoom Room, which is open Monday – Friday, 9-4.
- Book a time to meet with a team member through our Digital Learning Bookings page!
- Email us at its.digitallearning@unomaha.edu.