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Re: Moodle Accessibility

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From: Emma Duke-Williams
Date: Apr 7, 2008 2:10PM

On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 8:41 PM, Joshue O Connor < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Jan Heck wrote:
> > What is the good (and not so good) word about Moodle's accessibility? I'd
> > appreciate input from anyone who has time to comment!
>

There's a forum on the Moodle site re. Accessibility -
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?f=820 it covers quite a few of
the extra tools etc., that you might, or might not be using. It's not
very active, but seems to have some useful discussion points,
including the fact that they had been able to test the latest chat
tool with Jaws 8 (prior to reading that, I thought that the only
accessible chat tool in a VLE was A-chat - the one that SNOW have
developed.

Given that the Open University have now adopted Moodle, and that the
OU in the UK has more visually impaired students than any (?all?)
other Universities in the UK, I guess is likely to be good news for
ensuring accessibility, at least for screen readers.


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Emma Duke-Williams:
School of Computing/ Faculty eLearning Co-ordinator.
Blog: http://userweb.port.ac.uk/~duke-wie/blog/