Moodle - Using Open Source Software to Deliver Accessible Online Courses


Who we are

Logo for the Carroll Center for the Blind

Mark Sadecki @cptvitamin

Brian Charlson @briancharlson

Logo for Carroll Tech


Agenda


Our Distance Learning History

A series of screenshots from Carroll Tech over the years

2003

Static HTML

2004

Custom Distance Learning Software

2009

Moodle 1.9

2011

Moodle 2.0


Why Moodle?

Moodle Logo


Creating Accessible Online Courses


General Usability/Accessibility Techniques


Improving Moodle Accessibility

Where to start


Configure for Accessibility


Additional Configuration Options for Moodle 2.0


Theme for Accessibility

Moodle 1.9

Moodle 2.0

There are many more opportunities to improve the accessibility of your site at the theme level in Moodle 2.0. We will go over those later in the presentation.


Accessibility Modules

Moodle 1.9

Moodle 2.0


Staff and Support


Create Accessible Content

Markdown

Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).


Live Demo
(Cross your fingers)


Moodle 2.0


New Opportunities for Accessibility


Themes 2.0


Filters 2.0

Example of Multimedia Filter: [youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=WnhPRVvkU34[youtube]


Renderers


Known Accessibility Issues


Hope for the future


References


Presentation Slides

This presentation is available for download or online viewing in a number of formats at either of the links below:

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