Convert Canvas Course Content to a Variety of Accessible Formats

YuJa allows you to create alternative formats allows you to change the format of materials to better suit your needs.

Locate and use YuJa Alternative Formats in Canvas:

In areas of a Canvas course you will encounter the Alternative Formats icon! For example, it will be on items found after clicking Modules from Course Navigation. It looks like a blue circle with a person inside.

Click the Alternative Formats icon to reveal various formats available to convert a piece of content to.

You can click "View" to open that particular alternative format. For example, you can change a word document to a PDF or listen to the word document by clicking Immersive Reader.
You can download that particular alternative format by clicking the "Download" link.
Use the scroll bar to reveal more alternative formats.

Alternative Format Options:

For an overview of the alternative format options watch the video below:

Getting Started with YuJa Panorama for Students in Canvas Video (3 minutes)

List view of available options:

Source File: View the document in its original format, suitable for download viewing.
PDF: View the document in PDF format, suitable for both online and download viewing.
Text File: View the document in a pure text format without any formatting styles, suitable for both online and download viewing.
Immersive Reader: Allows for customizations to text preferences, grammar options, and reading preferences while following along with the audio playback.
Gradient Reader: Enhances visual word recognition when reading by providing a guiding color gradient.
EPUB: View the document in the ebook format, suitable for any ebook reader application.
Braille: View the document in the braille grade 2 format, suitable for download viewing (a braille reader is required).
Audio Podcast: Audio playback for documents, suitable for both online and download listening.
Enhanced HTML: HTML documents will be displayed in a dedicated tab to customize the document's appearance using the Website Accessibility tool.
OCR: Convert images with text into machine-encoded text that can be searched and read by screen readers.