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Accessibility: How to Make Digital Assets Accessible: LMS

This LibGuide explains how to make content of various types more accessible with explanations, examples, and links to additional resources.

Overview

There are a few guidelines you should follow when creating your course in Moodle:

  • Organize your course consistently section to section. Use consistent headers, labels and reference to materials in each section, topic or week.
  • Consider putting documents in at least two (2) formats. Giving several versions (Word, HTML, PDF and plain text) can cover most needs.
  • Name links to files (e.g. Word, PPT or Excel) and videos the same as the title of the file. 
  • Consider use of a course design rubric, refer to the PALNI Course Design Guide and rubric
  • Refer to the Enhancing Student Learning: Seven Principles for Good Practice as you create your course.

Moodle Accessibility Block

How to turn on Accessibility Block

  1. Log in to Moodle
  2. From the main page, scroll down through your blocks on the left-side of the screen
  3. At the bottom, click on "Add a block"
  4. Select "Accessibility" and wait a few moments for the page to refresh

Accessibility Block

Screenshot of Moodle Accessibility Block

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Functions

There are 8 buttons on the block itself. The 3 buttons on the top row displaying an A control text size:

  • Clicking Accessibility A- button will decrease the text size.
  • Clicking Accessibility A+ button will increase the text size.
  • Clicking Accessibility A button will reset the text size. If you had a saved setting for the text size, this will be cleared.

The final button on the top row saves styles changed by the block. Once you have altered the text size or color scheme, the button will become active, shown by the blue arrow. When it's active, click Accessibility save button to save settings. Once saved, they will persist between pages even when you log out.

The bottom row contains 4 buttons, each displaying a different color scheme. Clicking any of these buttons Accessibility A button colors will apply that color scheme to the page. Clicking the button on the far left will reset the scheme to default and clear any saved color settings.

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