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
- Make your course visible to students
- Check participants
- Enrolment methods and managing access permissions
- Enrol participants using Warwick auto-enrolment
- Manually enrol participants onto a Moodle space
- Roles and their functions in Moodle
- Switch to another role
- Create groups
- Create groupings
- Using group mode with activities
- Enable activity completion
- Mark activity completion manually
- Track activity completion
- Course completion
- Course participation
- Introduction to assessment and feedback
- Create a fail / pass scale
- Create a custom certificate
- Create and manage badges
- Reports, logs and completion data in Moodle
- Create an assignment
- Create an assignment for group submission
- Set up Turnitin within an assignment
- Create and grade a submission using a rubric
- Use a marking workflow for assignments
- Blind marking
- Allocate markers to specific submissions
- Provide grades and feedback for individual assignments
- Check the status of submissions
- Hide or show grades and feedback
- 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
- Introduction to Vevox
- Get help with Vevox
- Converting from Turning Point to Vevox
- Polling in PowerPoint using the Vevox add-in
- Polling and Q&A all running within the Vevox dashboard
- Polling in PowerPoint, plus Q&A
- Request a Vevox account
- Information about Vevox for students
- Use Teams with Vevox personal response system