Moodle Accessibility Techshare 2007
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1) The document discusses efforts to improve the accessibility of Moodle, an open-source e-learning platform, including expert evaluation and student testing that identified issues such as missing alt text and non-semantic HTML. 2) Accessibility improvements have been made in subsequent Moodle releases through changes like standardizing forms and adding missing text labels, but challenges remain such as retrofitting the large codebase and ensuring accessibility of user-generated content. 3) Ongoing work involves continued code updates, removing deprecated tags and layout tables, improving headings and lists, and addressing other outstanding issues.
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Moodle Accessibility Techshare 2007
- 11. Open University course page
Editor's Notes
- Nick starts
- “ Open to people..” - 1 in 3 enter with qualifications lower than required by other universities. Disabilitie, next slide.
- 2007, 1. Fatigue/ pain 22% … 6. Sight 5% (excluding other).
- A Moodle course, at moodle.org Log in status, course resources, online users (block) Components: theme header, side blocks etc.
- “ Core” Moodle installation includes assignment, blog etc. 3 rd party contributed code – can be adopted by core Institute-specific components – theme, activities
- PHP 5.2 (MySQL, PostgreSQL … MSSQL) OpenLearn uses Moodle, William & Flora Hewlett Foundation; Platinum IMS Global Learning Impact Award April 2007. Hand over to Chetz, after this - # 7.
- Added ‘breadcrumb trail’, also mis-used characters (< > etc. as arrows)
- OU Arts course page (server hidden), OU theme.
- Zoom in Produced in Firefox browser – Web Developer toolbar extension. Outline of lists, headings …
- 1.9, fixed form markup, didn’t extend coverage.
- 1 million lines of code, 275 person years development. Paid and volunteer, differing background roles, coders and maintainers (lang) Every school, college… has own theme – opportunity to break things. Partly related symptom – but not a criticism.