Moodle and Accessibility

Your hosts today

Ryan Thomas Chad Leaman

Neil Squire Society

http://www.neilsquire.ca

@neilsquiresoc

Global Accessibility Awareness Day

http://www.globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org

@gbla11yday | #gaad

Thank You – Lambda Solutions

Lambda Solutions

http://www.lambdasolutions.net

Thank You – Inclusive Media

Inclusive Media and Design

http://www.inclusivemedia.ca

Moodle and Accessibility

http://www.moodle.org

@moodler

e-Learning at Neil Squire Society

Types of Accessibility / Disability

•Vision

•Auditory

•Cognitive

•Mobility

Graphic from Deque Systems

http://www.deque.com

Moodle Demo with Jaws

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDGDnLh5QVA&t=01m39s

Moodle and Accessibility

•Good?

•Bad?

•Trouble on horizon?

Accessibility built right into Moodle

•Profile: Screen Reader

•Skip links over Blocks

•Requires ALT tags for images

•Browser Zoom

Simple Accessibility Tests

•Select All

•Only use keyboard

•Fangs (Firefox add-on)

•WAVE toolbar

Course Designer Tips

•Don’t “click here.”

•Use Semantics: <li>, <h1> <h2> <h3>, <div>

•Filters are useful

Youtube Player Example

http://christianheilmann.com/category/youtube/

Neil Squire Badges

Text-to-Speech (Screen Reader)

https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=block_tts

Neil Squire Society

http://www.neilsquire.ca

chadl@neilsquire.ca