Accessibility tool Comparison

[vnieders]

Hi All,

I am looking at a comparison of the two accessibility tools,  Blackboard Ally and Yuja Panorama. Does anyone here have any information to share on these two products? Thanks in advance.

[jdavis12]

hello, 

We are currently comparing them as well. We currently have Ally. It works pretty well. YuJa seems to have more options, deeper analytics and the company has done a lot of updating in the last six months. One feature they said they will be releasing soon is the ability to edit a pdf on the system, in browser, on the fly and replace that file on the system.  They said sometime next year. 

We are leaning heavier on switching.

[JoMontie]

We also are exploring options (currently use Ally). Can anyone tell if Panorama also has the option that Ally does for the alternative format download that student users have in a Canvas course that integrates with Panorama? That is a very important feature. 

[vnieders]

Thanks! That's good to know. We ended up going with Ally and I think we have a 3-year contract.

[chaverinen]

We are currently with Ally and trying to decide whether to switch to Panorama. I have done fairly deep studies of both systems, but only can use Panorama in our test sandbox of one course. So it is hard to judge the institution level. I'm particularly concerned about the institutional reports. Ally gives us the ability to see what courses have the most scanned PDFs, which is a current area of our focus. It appears Panorama does not do this. The Ally reports seem to be much deeper, though organized in a clumsy way. It is frustrating that Ally does not allow you to filter out unused content which greatly weakens the data. It is not on their roadmap, but Panorama offers this function. Now that Panorama offers the ability to do some fixes on PDFs within the interface, that is a big plus. Would love to hear from colleges that have made the switch or otherwise using Panorama.

[CoreyCollins]

Following this topic with interest, would be very keen to hear from those that have used both systems and made the switch.