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So my institution has finally launched Panorama in our D2L Brightspace platform. An early issue I am encountering is that Panorama is identifying correct coded “decorative image” empty alt attributes where the value equals open quote, close quote (with no space in between) as incorrect in the document score. So I am faced with fixing something that isn’t broken in order to get my score report to 100. Is this a known bug or am I the first to have this issue. I am using Firefox (latest version) on a Windows 11 Pro (10.0.22631 Build 22631)
Hi Todd Thanks for reaching out!
By default Panorama enforces a strict requirement of decorative images to have role=‘presentation’ to best ensure screen reader compatibility. However this is configurable. There is a setting at both the institution level and course level that can override this behavior to treat empty alt texts as decorative images. The setting is named “Treat Empty Alt Tags as Decorative Images” and can be found in General Settings. After changing that setting, all new content scanned will not be flagged for missing alt text if they contain an empty alt tag. Please let us know if you have any further questions 
Thank you for providing this response. I will pass this information on to our team that is managing the Panorama implementation. I don’t think the college has set it up, so we have no permissions, so I think they will have to implement the change.
One new question. Role=’presentation’ is an ARIA setting, correct? Was that integrated into the WCAG 2.2 update? I don’t remember it in WCAG 2.1. I’ll have to go back and do some research.
Hi Todd,
Thank you for your question!
Actually, role="presentation" isn’t a new WCAG 2.2 update. It has been part of the WAI-ARIA toolkit since 2014 to help developers meet accessibility standards that have been in place since WCAG 2.0.
Sorry, I didn’t mean to imply that it was new. WAI-ARIA has always been my weak spot. I am trying to understand the need for it within the framework of the ADA requirements that institutions must now adhere to in order to remain compliant. IS the strict application of the ARIA role required to meet the new ADA measures? I don’t want to tell my institution how to turn it off if we must have it enabled to meet our obligations under the law. Hope that makes some sense.
Hi Todd,
The short answer is no, there isn’t a law that says “you must use ARIA.”
In practice, you can’t hit those WCAG standards without ARIA unless your site is 100% basic HTML. I would highly recommend not disabling ARIA. If you disable ARIA, custom menus, alerts, and buttons become “invisible” to screen readers, which is a direct ADA violation.
Also, it’s very important to prioritize native HTML elements first (such as native HTML button). Strict ARIA should only be used when creating custom components that aren’t supported by standard HTML.
Think of ARIA as the translation layer that makes your site “readable” to the software the ADA requires us to support. It’s better to keep ARIA active than to risk losing your ADA compliance.
Hope that helps clear things up! 
Olha
Olha,
Thank you. Yes it does clarify things. I don’t know of any examples of overly complex web page design in our LMS. Most people still want to use PDFs and Word documents. We train them to use HTML and CSS as the native language of the web, thereby making it easier for assistive technologies to render the content.
Hello! I wanted to ask whether there are any plans to support a faculty-only view that would display an overall quiz accessibility score, including all questions within the quiz. I understand that this isn’t currently possible due to the way quizzes are presented in the student view, where the Alternative Formats menu would expose all quiz questions to students.
If there were a way to adjust the functionality so that students could only see alternative formats for the quiz instructions (RCE), this could be incredibly helpful. It would allow faculty to quickly and easily review the accessibility of all quiz questions at once, rather than needing to open and check each question individually.
Thank you for considering this, and I appreciate any insight you can share!
Hello!
Thank you so much for your suggestion! We recognize how useful this would be, and I’m happy to share that this capability is in our summer/fall roadmap.
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