The document provides tips and guidelines for building accessible courses in Moodle by following standards like WCAG 2.0 and ensuring course content is perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust. It discusses making content accessible across different elements like assignments, forums, quizzes, pages, and books by following tips for text, links, headings, images, multimedia, tables, and equations. The goal is to raise awareness of accessibility issues and ensure users don't face obstacles so access is available to the widest possible audience without needing special accommodations.
Overview of Open edX Birch Release
There are many techie release notes and feature lists of the new Open edX Birch release. This overview provides an introduction to what is offered in the new release, and serves as an introduction to the newbie interested in learning more about edX and Open edX
The Internet boosted collaboration and innovation, making possible Open Source, Free Software, and the digital ecosystem we enjoy today, from connected cars to mobile apps. Open edX may be the latest and most exciting Free/Libre Open Source Software project in education today. Open edX is currently used from MOOCs to massive national e-learning deployments, or in addition to the local LMS.
True to MIT's culture, the Open edX team has adopted an open and collaborative approach, releasing the code under a GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL) for the core platform, and an Apache license for some libraries such as XBlock (for extensions). The community is invited to use, improve, and share code and practices, to accelerate innovation. The goal is to educate 1 billion students!
Overview of Open edX Birch Release
There are many techie release notes and feature lists of the new Open edX Birch release. This overview provides an introduction to what is offered in the new release, and serves as an introduction to the newbie interested in learning more about edX and Open edX
The Internet boosted collaboration and innovation, making possible Open Source, Free Software, and the digital ecosystem we enjoy today, from connected cars to mobile apps. Open edX may be the latest and most exciting Free/Libre Open Source Software project in education today. Open edX is currently used from MOOCs to massive national e-learning deployments, or in addition to the local LMS.
True to MIT's culture, the Open edX team has adopted an open and collaborative approach, releasing the code under a GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL) for the core platform, and an Apache license for some libraries such as XBlock (for extensions). The community is invited to use, improve, and share code and practices, to accelerate innovation. The goal is to educate 1 billion students!
Francisco Iniesto and Covadonga Rodrigo Institute of educational Technology. The Open University
Department of Computer Systems and Languages. Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (UNED)
“Drupal: a Content Management Framework”
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Making moodle more accessible for staff and students UCL disability conferenc...Jessica Gramp
Moodle is not completely accessible, since it does not fully meet the Wide Web Consortium (W3C) WCAG 2.0 level AA web standard. Even if it were technically accessible, this would not guarantee an accessible experience to all disabled students and staff (W3C 2016b; Cooper et al 2007).
“When websites… are badly designed, they can create barriers that exclude people from using the Web.” (W3C 2016a).
At UCL, we formed an interdisciplinary team of Digital Education and Disability Support staff and conducted focus groups with disabled students and staff to discover difficulties they had using UCL Moodle and generated priority areas for improvements. The focus groups considered both improvements to Moodle and its interface and support for both disabled users and Moodle course editors.
Accessibility consultants, a developer and a designer were recruited to improve Moodle Accessibility from a variety of angles, by implementing:
A new, more accessible UCL Moodle visual design (theme) for use on desktop and mobile devices.
Enhanced UCL Moodle features (plugins) and configuration.
Improved training, staff development and support for disabled staff and students, as well as course editors.
Improvements to code within Moodle and theme.
The first two elements are discussed further in this poster from the First UCL Interdisciplinary Conference on Disability, 2018. See the conference programme at: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/grand-challenges/justice-and-equality/priorities/disability/conference-programme
We are delighted to host Jane Vincent's overview slides on the recent EDUPUB Summit, regarding emerging trends in standards for e-reader publications and devices, especially in the context of education.
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ATAGTR2017 SPEAKING EYE for differently abled people to see the web contentAgile Testing Alliance
The presentation on SPEAKING EYE for differently abled people to see the web content was done during #ATAGTR2017, one of the largest global testing conference. All copyright belongs to the author.
Author and presenter : Nadeeka Samanthi Wijewantha
Introduction to Moodle, myths and truths, perspectives for instituesMangesh Wagh
Here is an attempt to collate experience, knowledge and information collected from various sources to help institutes understand Moodle better.
It is time institutes adopt Moodle and start making the most of it.
Francisco Iniesto and Covadonga Rodrigo Institute of educational Technology. The Open University
Department of Computer Systems and Languages. Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (UNED)
“Drupal: a Content Management Framework”
• What Drupal Is & What It Isn’t
• Advantages & Disadvantages to Using Drupal
• How to Get Started Using Drupal
Making moodle more accessible for staff and students UCL disability conferenc...Jessica Gramp
Moodle is not completely accessible, since it does not fully meet the Wide Web Consortium (W3C) WCAG 2.0 level AA web standard. Even if it were technically accessible, this would not guarantee an accessible experience to all disabled students and staff (W3C 2016b; Cooper et al 2007).
“When websites… are badly designed, they can create barriers that exclude people from using the Web.” (W3C 2016a).
At UCL, we formed an interdisciplinary team of Digital Education and Disability Support staff and conducted focus groups with disabled students and staff to discover difficulties they had using UCL Moodle and generated priority areas for improvements. The focus groups considered both improvements to Moodle and its interface and support for both disabled users and Moodle course editors.
Accessibility consultants, a developer and a designer were recruited to improve Moodle Accessibility from a variety of angles, by implementing:
A new, more accessible UCL Moodle visual design (theme) for use on desktop and mobile devices.
Enhanced UCL Moodle features (plugins) and configuration.
Improved training, staff development and support for disabled staff and students, as well as course editors.
Improvements to code within Moodle and theme.
The first two elements are discussed further in this poster from the First UCL Interdisciplinary Conference on Disability, 2018. See the conference programme at: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/grand-challenges/justice-and-equality/priorities/disability/conference-programme
We are delighted to host Jane Vincent's overview slides on the recent EDUPUB Summit, regarding emerging trends in standards for e-reader publications and devices, especially in the context of education.
A presentation made to the EEE project in Valladolid, 14th November 2011, talking about ways of thinking about widget services, and describing work carried out in the iTEC and Omelette projects
ATAGTR2017 SPEAKING EYE for differently abled people to see the web contentAgile Testing Alliance
The presentation on SPEAKING EYE for differently abled people to see the web content was done during #ATAGTR2017, one of the largest global testing conference. All copyright belongs to the author.
Author and presenter : Nadeeka Samanthi Wijewantha
Introduction to Moodle, myths and truths, perspectives for instituesMangesh Wagh
Here is an attempt to collate experience, knowledge and information collected from various sources to help institutes understand Moodle better.
It is time institutes adopt Moodle and start making the most of it.
Improving the student experience Gavin HenrickGavin Henrick
Keynote presentation from MoodleMoot Spain 2015 - Palma, Mallorca - focusing on some of the ways that Moodle site could be customised to enhance that experience using various examples.
This is a document used in a Learning Analytics Workshop for Moodle - considering the different questions and solutions and looking at unanswered questions.
Extending Moodle - Moodlemoot Romania 2013Gavin Henrick
Presentation on Extending Moodle through Add-ons.
Presented at Moodlemoot Romania 2013.
Based on some of the principles from the book - http://moodleaddons.com
This presentation was delivered at #edtech13 in University College Cork, Ireland.
This covers the list of Moodle techniques that may be useful for gamification.
Breaking down the barriers to learning technology imoot 2012 keynote Gavin Henrick
This keynote focused on IMS LTI, the challenges people face and the reason LTI can solve some of these issues.
This was presented as keynote at the imoot 2012 .
Moodle Tool Guide for Teachers - German version by Ralf Hilgenstock, Susanne Gebauer, Gerald Hartwig
http://eledia.de
http://moodle.de
http://dialoge.info
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12. Images Tips
● Alt descriptions
● Repeat any image text in alt
● Complex images need text description
● Meaning with color alone?
● Pixelation
● No flashing!
13. Multimedia Tips
● Deliver via accessible media player!
○ E.g. Moodle default, video.js
● Closed Captions (CC)
● Subtitles
● Text transcripts
14. Table Tips
● Tabular data only!!
○ i.e. Don’t use for layout...
● Caption
● Row & column headers
● No merged cells
● No nested tables
15. Equation Tips
● Avoid using images of equations
● Use accessible equation displays:
○ Atto equations (Mathjax)
■ Feature rich
■ Great looking
■ Fully accessible
○ Equation writers using Mathjax
○ Wiris
Story about student jaywalking in Dublin with a friend, and finding out she wouldn’t, coz of her hearing disability, had to approach things in a different way, had never noticed it previously
