Finding Critical Issues

Locate Tool in Panorama Dashboard

1. From your course Homepage, locate and select Help in the Navbar and click Panorama.
2. Your Panorama dashboard will open in a new tab. Scroll to the bottom and locate the last section Files and Issues click the Issues button to search your files by issue type

Find PDFs Without Any Text

3. Select Severe from the row of buttons directly after those of the last step.
4. Click the arrow icon at the left of the first row to expand the list of documents with a Severe issue. These are PDF files in your course that have no text data and need critical attention.
   • If you have the original documents make sure you are exporting them with tags enabled or find details about your specific software used to create the PDF
   • If you do not have the source document use OCR and Panorama or Acrobat Pro with best practices to add searchable text and descriptive content to the file.

Find Other Files Missing Text Alternatives

5. Next to the Severe tab from step 3, select Major.
6. Locate Instances in the right of the table header row and select it so that the down arrow is emphasized, sorting highest to lowest.
7. Locate issues that mention alternative descriptions, and untagged PDFs
   • The same issue will have multiple rows for each file type: PDF, PPT, HTML, etc.
   • There are several similar alternative description issues: such as missing descriptions or using a place holder or filename.
8. In each row you can repeat step 4 and and expand the list of files, this time though you can sort by the number of times that issue is present. So, you can find the PDFs that have the most occurrences of items missing alternative description, for instance, with the correct settings.