Creating accessible content
General Guidance
Guidance for Authors provides helpful guidance on creating accessible materials, including:
- General Guidance
- Microsoft Office
- Web Pages
- Portable Document Format (PDF)
- Multimedia
Use paragraph styles
Using headings is one way to make your text based resources more accessible. When you use heading and paragraph styles, screen reader users can quickly navigate to the content they need as screen readers and text-to-speech tools are programmed to recognise them. Breaking up long paragraphs of text will also make your content more readable.
The Atto Toolbar has an in-built 'Paragraph styles' represented by a button with an 'i' icon.
Check colour contrast
When using text, you should ensure there is sufficient contrast between the text and it's background. Participants need to be able to read the content you provide, without sufficient contrast they may not be able to. See the example below. Which sentence do you find easier to read?
This is a box with text.
This text has sufficient contrast.
This text doesn't.
WebAIM provide a very helpful contrast checker which will show you whether your foreground and background colours pass colour contrast requirements.
Contents
- Introduction to managing course participants
- Enrolment methods and managing access permissions
- Roles and their functions in Moodle
- Use groups and groupings
- Import and populate groups
- Enable activity completion
- Mark activity completion manually
- Track activity completion
- Course completion
- Course participation
- Introduction to eStream
- Access your eStream content
- Uploading videos to eStream
- Edit videos in eStream
- Edit video thumbnail
- Uploading a closed captions (subtitles) file to eStream
- Add eStream videos to Mahara
- Sharing eStream videos to Moodle
- Sharing an eStream video with a link
- Setup a video assignment in Moodle