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Enhancing the building blocks of effective education

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The Problem

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Are your LMS lessons compliant?

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Technical content standards

Difficult Technical Formatting

Struggle to stay

Compliant

Display Guidelines

Not Compliant

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Some Problems

  • Most staff are subject matter experts and not accessibility experts
  • Institution doesn’t know how compliant they are and doesn’t know what needs to be fixed – and fixing is a manual intensive process
  • People are not intentionally ignorant of accessibility and associated requirements

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The Solution

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Find Fix Futureproof Approach

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Accessibility Toolkit

  • Find the existing issues with the content
  • Fix the issues automatically, and provide interfaces to triage
  • Futureproof the content building by improvements to Moodle

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Find

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Regulatory Standards

Not Met

Brickfield Accessibility Program

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Finding the challenges

  • Automate analysis of the content inside Moodle against a set of WCAG standards
  • Produce reports at site level, category level and course level on the compliance
  • Report at a functional point of view (Moodle features) and a technical point of view (Content)

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Examples where we look

  • Course
  • Book
  • Resource (file)
  • Label
  • Page
  • Url
  • Assign (Assignment)
  • Chat
  • Choice
  • Data (database)

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  • Feedback
  • Forum
  • Glossary
  • Lesson
  • Quiz
  • Scorm
  • Survey
  • Wiki
  • Workshop
  • Question (Bank)

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Example of checks completed

Image

  • Alt
  • Usemap

Layout

  • Headers
  • Frames

Link

  • Text
  • Opens new window

Media

  • Captions
  • Applet / Object

Table

  • Caption
  • Row and Column headers
  • No merging

Text

  • Various retired tags
  • Content length
  • Contrast

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Fix

2.

We fix the issues

Brickfield Accessibility Program

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Fixing the issues

  • Automated tools to tackle simpler issues
  • Interfaces to triage and bulk fix other items

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Future Proof

3.

Ease of Use for

Instructors

Brickfield Accessibility Toolkit

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Futureproofing Moodle

  • Build a better editor that ensures content is more accessible
  • Improve other features to optimise accessibility
  • Add alternate options to facilitate not just accessibility compliance, but practicality too
  • Performance support work aids

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Accessible file solution

  • Integrated to Moodle
    • Converts documents into more accessible formats
    • Produces MP3 Audio files
    • Produces structured audio books
    • Produces e-books
    • Produces Digital Braille books

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Gavin Henrick

Enhancing the building blocks of effective education

gavin@brickfield.ie

www.brickfield.ie

@ghenrick

Skype: gavin.henrick