Moodle accessibility quick guide
Accessibility Guidance for Authors including
- General Guidance
- Microsoft Office
- Web Pages
- Portable Document Format (PDF)
- Multimedia
Structure
- Use a logical structure
- Use an optimised course format
- Use sections to organise content
- Use unique and informative names
- Use section summaries to describe content
- Be consistent.
Avoid
- A random structure
- Using an inaccessible course format
- Adding content in to one section
- Indistinct or uninformative names
- Solely using section names to describe the content within
Inconsistency.
Content
- Add alternative text to images, graphics, charts etc. where appropriate.
- Use meaningful link text
- Use colours with sufficient contrast between the text and background colours
- Use easy to read font in a large size (18pts +)
- Use heading and paragraph styles to structure text
- Use clear and concise language
- Use in-built accessibility tools
Avoid
- Using colour as the only means of conveying information
- Using small font sizes (<18pts)
- Placing text over images
- Using background colours without sufficient contrast to the text
- Hard to read fonts
- Using images, with content your audience need to understand, without a text alternative
- Using images of text
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Long paragraphs of text with no headings
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Link text with no descriptive information
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Using images of text
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Avoid acronyms and complex words
Guidance on creating accessible materials
Audio and Video
- Provide a text alternative such as
- closed captions
- text transcripts
- audio description
- Clearly label audio/video content that has been provided as an alternative to text
Avoid
- Providing content solely in video and audio formats only
Contents
- Introduction to managing course participants
- Make your course visible to students
- Check participants
- Enrolment methods and managing access permissions
- Roles and their functions in Moodle
- Switch to another role
- Create groups
- Create groupings
- Using activities with groups and groupings
- Activity completion
- Course completion
- Course participation
- Introduction to assessment and feedback
- Create and grade a submission using a rubric
- Use a marking workflow for assignments
- Allocate markers to specific submissions
- Create a fail / pass scale
- Provide grades and feedback for individual assignments
- Check the status of submissions
- Create a custom certificate
- Create and manage badges