Re: [WSG] Accessibility With Moodle

2011-10-22 Thread Grant Bailey

Hi Marvin,

Thanks for your post. I'm interested in reading the other replies.

I would have thought that accessibility was a priority for Moodle. It is 
widely used now. Certainly a matter of relevance for persons considering 
whether to use it as their LMS.


Regards,

Grant Bailey

On 22/10/2011 1:45 PM, Marvin Hunkin wrote:

hi.
using jaws 12.0.1170 and jaws 13.0.241.
and doing a online diploma in website development from 
http://wsi.tafensw.edu.au, and they use http://wwwmoodle.org

which is not very accessible with jaws.
i have e-mailed support at  supp...@moodle.org about that jaws 12 and 
13, in firefox, does not read some of the content after a while, and 
just says blank.

and it has javascript, or java submenus, and jaws gets stuck on that.
firefox 7.0, was really bad, and after a while had to try internet 
explorer 9.
and it read the content a little better, but a couple of times, got 
stuck on the submenu.
so, maybe if everyone wrote to http://www.moodle.org, might be able to 
get some real progress about this.
has any one else used moodle, with a screen reader, and their 
experiences, good, bad, the ugly.
and at the moment, the lecturers have to rewrite their content, and 
send it to me via e-mail.

so in three months, have only completed three subjects.
which is a slow and timely process.
they also have other online students, face to face, and i have tried 
to ask them, and they said that moodle, is making changes to their 
e-learning platform, but could take a few months.

and when i was able to login.
a lot of broken links, enrollment keys, to login, and a combo box, 
when i was in the right area, no keyboard shortcuts, and some combo 
box items, just said item 3, or what ever.

this is really, really annoying.
so my question is.
for a large institution, how easy is to fix accessibility,  of 
education institutions, to hand create the e-learning pages, and then 
put accessibility into these pages?
and if there are any other more easier and more accessible e-learning 
systems, what are they, and how complex, or simple for a large 
institution, to move their content to this new platform.

any feedback, suggestions, or where i go from here.
want to use the e-learning platform, but a real challenge for a 
student with a dsiaiblity, of mine, bieng blind and using a screen 
reader.
i did test with nvda, and got similar results in internet explorer 9, 
firefox 7.0.

marvin.


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Re: [WSG] Accessibility With Moodle

2011-10-22 Thread Chad Kelly

On 10/22/2011 5:07 PM, Grant Bailey wrote:

Hi Marvin,

Thanks for your post. I'm interested in reading the other replies.

I would have thought that accessibility was a priority for Moodle. It 
is widely used now. Certainly a matter of relevance for persons 
considering whether to use it as their LMS.


Regards,

Grant Bailey


I think it will be the theme they are using and or that they have designed.



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Re: [WSG] Accessibility With Moodle

2011-10-21 Thread Chad Kelly

On 10/22/2011 1:45 PM, Marvin Hunkin wrote:

hi.
using jaws 12.0.1170 and jaws 13.0.241.
and doing a online diploma in website development from 
http://wsi.tafensw.edu.au, and they use http://wwwmoodle.org

which is not very accessible with jaws.
i have e-mailed support at  supp...@moodle.org about that jaws 12 and 
13, in firefox, does not read some of the content after a while, and 
just says blank.

and it has javascript, or java submenus, and jaws gets stuck on that.
firefox 7.0, was really bad, and after a while had to try internet 
explorer 9.
and it read the content a little better, but a couple of times, got 
stuck on the submenu.
This has little to do with the software and more to do with how the Tafe 
has designed the template to interact with the software.
Moodle is just like any other Content Management System in that you can 
configure templates to work with it.

You will need to log a ticket with the IT Services department at the tafe.
Regards Chad.



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