Triple Jump Runway: June 2017

Places are still available on our two-day Matlab course on 20 and 21 July. If you are interested, visit the UCL training booking system to find out more and book a place.

Need help with your dissertation? We are running two drop-in clinics on 8 and 21 August from 2 – 5 p.m. There is no need to book, just turn up. If the session is busy you may need to wait to be seen so bring something to do. Staff can help with formatting your disseration and bibliographic referencing using Word, LaTeX, NatBib, Endnote and Zotero. Location details will be provided on our drop in page and please check the page before travelling to a session in case any details have changed.

Research IT Services are running their ever-popular Software Carpentry on 25 and 26 July. This intensive course is designed to help researchers become more productive by teaching them basic computing skills like program design, version control, testing, and task automation using Unix, SQL, Python and Git. Visit the UCL training booking system to find out more and book a place.

Finally, don’t forget, wherever you are this summer you always have access to a vast range of high-quality video-based courses from Lynda.com and you can even download content to view offline. There are videos covering technical skills but also business, personal and creative skills as well. Visit the UCL Lynda.com page to find out more. We also have a range of technology-focused online courses available from Microsoft Imagine Academy

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Long Jump Runway Construction in Ceredigion #Long #Jump #Construction #Ceredigion https://t.co/Vv139C1o3W

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Long Jump Sand Pit in Rutland #Long #Jump #Sand #Pit #Rutland https://t.co/uZc0xcZ2o4

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Wednesday, 28 June 2017

Long Jump Run Up in Down #Down https://t.co/7K8fv1ob3t

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Maintenance of Long Jump Runway in Gloucestershire #Long #Jump #Facility #Maintenance #Gloucestershire https://t.co/0GMoAUAEQV

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Triple Jump Runway Surfaces in Rutland #Triple #Jump #Surfacing #Rutland https://t.co/lw1vNVgHMr

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Long Jump Sand Pit Cover in Magherafelt #Sand #Pit #Cover #for #Long #Jumps #Magherafelt https://t.co/bXO3lcPb7z

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Long Jump Take Off Board in Hardings Wood #Long #Jump #Take #Off #Board #Hardings #Wood https://t.co/47LiF8fb3E

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Tuesday, 27 June 2017

Triple Jump Run Up Groundworks in Ambler Thorn #Groundworks #for #Triple #Jump #Ambler #Thorn https://t.co/xFNQVYigLK

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Triple Jump Runway Surfaces in Angarrack #Triple #Jump #Surfacing #Angarrack https://t.co/7n7w1IAtIB

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Triple Jump Runway Surfaces in Gloucestershire #Triple #Jump #Surfacing #Gloucestershire https://t.co/THH4IFZIQs

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Long Jump Run Up in The Vale of Glamorgan #The #Vale #of #Glamorgan https://t.co/fG9lHKaUC6

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Long Jump Sand Pit Cover in Dorset #Sand #Pit #Cover #for #Long #Jumps #Dorset https://t.co/rZDyddDocB

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Monday, 26 June 2017

Long Jump Runway Construction in Cheshire #Long #Jump #Construction #Cheshire https://t.co/MtHWt1qf4Z

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Long Jump Sand Pit in Ards #Long #Jump #Sand #Pit #Ards https://t.co/M66F0r8a3y

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Long Jump Run Up Surfacing in Northamptonshire #Long #Jump #Run #Up #Surfacing #Northamptonshire https://t.co/IalM2OUy4l

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Long Jump Sand Pit in Falkirk #Long #Jump #Sand #Pit #Falkirk https://t.co/9I6QDJzsTE

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Long Jump Run Up in Moggerhanger #Moggerhanger https://t.co/BmVKZPPJXq

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Sunday, 25 June 2017

Long Jump Runway Construction in Banbridge #Long #Jump #Construction #Banbridge https://t.co/EtiJDba9z9

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Long Jump Run Up in Leicestershire #Leicestershire https://t.co/2zAq9jxD9f

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Long Jump Sand Pit in Borthwick #Long #Jump #Sand #Pit #Borthwick https://t.co/Up5fbuGT8D

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Triple Jump Run Up Groundworks in Probus #Groundworks #for #Triple #Jump #Probus https://t.co/ZAMpTafwBt

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Saturday, 24 June 2017

Maintenance of Long Jump Runway in Lower Altofts #Long #Jump #Facility #Maintenance #Lower #Altofts https://t.co/coAofzCEHl

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Long Jump Run Up Surfacing in Colpy #Long #Jump #Run #Up #Surfacing #Colpy https://t.co/hElBkupBmN

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Triple Jump Run Up Groundworks in Limavady #Groundworks #for #Triple #Jump #Limavady https://t.co/y5KDllT0K7

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Long Jump Run Up Surfacing in Eastbrook #Long #Jump #Run #Up #Surfacing #Eastbrook https://t.co/VsCXPefDkj

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Long Jump Run Up in East Riding of Yorkshire #East #Riding #of #Yorkshire https://t.co/wny15PNtIW

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Friday, 23 June 2017

Triple Jump Runway Surfaces in Moordown #Triple #Jump #Surfacing #Moordown https://t.co/WxGPE0wG6v

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Long Jump Runway Construction in Surrey #Long #Jump #Construction #Surrey https://t.co/pn4wAIhL5q

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Long Jump Run Up in Old Malden #Old #Malden https://t.co/F9Ace5zwJl

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Long Jump Take Off Board in Rhondda Cynon Taf #Long #Jump #Take #Off #Board #Rhondda #Cynon #Taf https://t.co/IQpeot3uX1

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Triple Jump Runway Surfaces in Enderby #Triple #Jump #Surfacing #Enderby https://t.co/99n5S3HciK

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Thursday, 22 June 2017

Triple Jump Runway Surfaces in Bennetts End #Triple #Jump #Surfacing #Bennetts #End https://t.co/KyjieD0rJN

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Triple Jump Run Up Groundworks in Coldean #Groundworks #for #Triple #Jump #Coldean https://t.co/Xkcb5ZvzQO

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Maintenance of Long Jump Runway in Rodwell #Long #Jump #Facility #Maintenance #Rodwell https://t.co/1RE9Y8ocww

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Long Jump Take Off Board in East Dunbartonshire #Long #Jump #Take #Off #Board #East #Dunbartonshire https://t.co/nqhWiMlZ9W

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Long Jump Take Off Board in Coalpit Hill #Long #Jump #Take #Off #Board #Coalpit #Hill https://t.co/6McR2RQOAQ

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Wednesday, 21 June 2017

Long Jump Run Up Surfacing in Leicestershire #Long #Jump #Run #Up #Surfacing #Leicestershire https://t.co/gEjLp71P5J

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Long Jump Sand Pit in Tansor #Long #Jump #Sand #Pit #Tansor https://t.co/J9LWahEsex

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Long Jump Run Up Surfacing in Lower Layham #Long #Jump #Run #Up #Surfacing #Lower #Layham https://t.co/CeMD4o5ia1

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Long Jump Sand Pit Cover in Nottinghamshire #Sand #Pit #Cover #for #Long #Jumps #Nottinghamshire https://t.co/90yraBMxjI

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Maintenance of Long Jump Runway in South Lanarkshire #Long #Jump #Facility #Maintenance #South #Lanarkshire https://t.co/Q8XyGaVotK

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Tuesday, 20 June 2017

Long Jump Sand Pit in Newtownabbey #Long #Jump #Sand #Pit #Newtownabbey https://t.co/HpSnoxibtt

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Accessible Moodle wishlist

The following outlines recommendations from the Accessible Moodle project to improve the accessibility of UCL Moodle for disabled students and staff, as well as improve usability for all users. These have been informed by focus groups with disabled students and staff; analysis of how UK websites adhere to accessibility guidelines; and research of relevant journal articles and accessibility guidelines.

Our primary aim is to ensure Moodle is technically accessible using assistive technologies including ZoomText, JAWS screen-reader, Read & Write, Dragon NaturallySpeaking voice recognition software, as well as other assistive technologies commonly used at UCL. In addition, keyboard-only access should be fully supported. It is also important that UCL Moodle is usable for those with disabilities, as well as the wider student and staff community.

In order to develop these requirements, the project team ran focus groups with UCL students and staff with disabilities, to find out what they found difficult to use within Moodle and what suggestions they had for improvements. I have blogged previously about the background to the project and the outcomes of these focus groups.

A number of sources were also referenced to see how Moodle could be made to better adhere to accessibility guidelines. The most important of these are the following three guidelines from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) :

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Level AA for making Moodle and its content more accessible.
Web Accessibility Initiative – Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suite (WAI-ARIA) for designing Moodle so users of assistive technologies, like screen-readers, can navigate and read its pages.
Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) for making the Moodle rich text editors more accessible.

A number of websites were also analysed to compare how each of them implemented W3C guidelines.

The list that follows is a wish list, which may not all be implemented, but gives us a guide for how we might improve Moodle. Although there are many other elements that are important, but not mentioned below, the following makes a start of improving the interface for disabled and non-disabled users alike.

We are taking a multi-faceted approach to resolve the issues identified, and work is likely to be ongoing, but here’s a list of changes we’d like to see made to make Moodle more accessible.

Assistive Technology compatibility.

The following requirements are likely to require implementation at multiple levels, so don’t easily fit under any single development areas below. The project aims to achieve the following requirements:

Content and editing features are available to screen-readers, or suitable alternatives are available – e.g. offline marking in Word enables in-line marking for assessments.
Navigation is straight-forward, with content appearing before menus and appropriate headings, links and lists being utilised to enable easy navigation using common screen-reader features. E.g. the list of module tutor names under every Moodle course name in the search results means that hundreds of links are listed to screen-reader users and sighted users are overwhelmed by irrelevant information which needs to be scrolled past, and which is particularly problematic for those with dyslexia.
All images have alt tags (even if these are empty), orin the case of icons that supplement text, they use ARIA tags to tell screen-readers to ignore them.
Accepts user input using voice recognition software, like Dragon Naturally Speaking.
Enables magnification by ensuring the pages display well when the browser is zoomed in or when zooming software is used.
Visible focus when using the keyboard (tab, space, enter and arrow keys) to navigate.
Supports the use of OpenDyslexi font, available as a browser plugin to help those with dyslexia read text.

A multi-faceted approach

The following five areas outline the different ways in which Accessibility improvements can be made to UCL Moodle.

A new, more accessible UCL Moodle theme for use on desktop and mobile devices.
- Minimise clutter, by enabling blocks to be hidden and removing extraneous information.
- Position elements for optimal access. E.g. ensure the login is prominent and important course features are easy to access.
- Simplify the menus, by showing relevant links only to relevant users. E.g. staff see different links from students.
- Improve the course icons by making them larger and clearer. E.g. the maximise block link is not intuitive.
- Show alerts to users – e.g. explaining that editors can drag and drop files, warnings of Moodle outage periods.
- Improve navigation, e.g. by enabling links to key areas that users expect.
- Use high contrasting colours on a pale background that is easy to read for those with dyslexia (e.g. not white).
Changes to Moodle configuration.
- Configure text editors so they encourage accessible content design. E.g. offering heading styles 3-5, removing the inclination for people to add heading 1 and 2 tags when these are used at higher levels within Moodle pages.
- Enable global search (assuming this does not negatively impact performance).
- Allow students and staff to personalise the interface by enabling courses to be moved up and down on the My Home page, hide and show blocks, maximise the screen or use a default width better for reading and dock blocks.
Enhanced Moodle features.
A number of plugins to Moodle exist that make Moodle more usable and improve accessibility.
- Implement and configure user tours to help users understand how to use Moodle and point to help with accessibility features.
- Install a course checker plugin to help staff create an accessible Moodle course – e.g. checks for assignment due dates in past, courses not reset, broken links.
- Implement a Moodle course site map so students can easily see what is available on a course on one page.
- Enable importing content from Word, which some users find easier to edit within than Moodle.
- Pilot the Blackboard Ally plugin to help in the creation of more accessible learning resources and course structures.
- Install the Office 365 plugin to make it easier to author, organise and link or embed content into Moodle (coming to Moodle core in v3.3).
- Enable staff to add icons to help signpost particular areas of their course and help people who prefer these visual cues, as opposed to having to read excessive text.
Improved training, staff development and support.
- Develop a course for Moodle editors so they understand how to develop accessible Moodle resources and activities.
- Develop an online course to explain how Assistive Technologies can be used with Moodle (e.g. regions for JAWS, browser plugins to show a reading ruler, change fonts to OpenDyslexi font, improve colour contrast).
Improved interfaces by proposing enhancements to Moodle HQ and iParadigms (who provide Turnitin).
- Adequately signpost links showing (new window, document, external/internal etc) automatically.
- Enable users to personalise their experience by allowing them to choose their own course format, set blocks to particular colours.
- Improve assessment interfaces, such as the Moodle Assignment rubric functionality and display.
- Flag new items on the Moodle course page (allow this to be enabled/disabled in user preferences).
- Improve the Moodle calendar – e.g. size, reliance on colour, clicking month to access full screen.
- Improve the discussion forums – e.g. showing the entire thread when replying, the accessibility of the email alerts it sends.
- Fix Moodle heading tags.

The UCL Digital Education team, staff in Disability Support teams and staff from IT for IoE are slowly working through each of these five strands to make improvements to virtual learning experiences at UCL for those with disabilities. Many of these improvements will also benefit other Moodle users, since accessibility cannot be considered in isolation from usability, so this means an enhanced user experience for everyone!

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Comparison of websites to inform the design of accessible online learning environments

The Accessible Moodle project is looking at how UCL Moodle can be made more accessible for those with disabilities, with input from disabled students and staff.

In order for e-learning to be accessible to all students and staff, including those with disabilities, the pages and resources contained in the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) need to be constructed in a way that is accessible. The rules for doing this are not always straight forward to implement, so I set out to determine how others are developing their websites to meet the needs of disabled users.

I analysed the websites of a number of leading UK government, charity and public broadcasting websites to obtain a clearer idea of how web accessibility standards can be applied in practice. These websites need to meet the needs of a large range of users, including those with disabilities. The websites I analysed are:

Disability Rights UK: disabilityrightsuk.org
Scope: scope.org.uk (covers support for mobility impairment, amongst others)
Action on Hearing Loss: actiononhearingloss.org.uk
Action for blind people (working with RNIB): actionforblindpeople.org.uk
British Dyslexia Association (BDA): bdadyslexia.org.uk
UK government: gov.uk
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC): bbc.co.uk
St Martin in the Fields: stmartin-in-the-fields.org

I used the built in Chrome web page inspection functionality, and a number of browser plugins to help me determine how the web pages were constructed, including:

WhatFont? for checking font, font size and line spacing.
ColorZilla for checking colours.

The four main types of disability are:

hearing loss;
visual;
cognitive and neurological; and
mobility.

Each of the four main types of disability are considered by at least one charity website and the remaining five websites aim to be as accessible as possible across a range of disabilities in order not to exclude members of the public.

At UCL, the majority of our disabled students have cognitive and mental health conditions (Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Autism, long term depression etc.). However, it is important we consider all types of disability when looking at improving accessibility. LINK TO OTHER POST

Meeting web accessibility standards

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community, led by Tim Berners Lee (father of the world wide web). The W3C runs the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) to develop “strategies, guidelines, and resources to help make the Web accessible to people with disabilities” (W3C).

Part of the WAI includes the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0, for making web content more accessible. These recommendations are split into three levels from A to AAA. Most websites attempt to adhere to WCAG Level AA standard, “because it is not possible to satisfy all Level AAA Success Criteria for some content” (W3C).

Another WAI guideline is known as Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suite (ARIA) and defines how to construct HTML and scripting languages that aid users of assistive technologies, like screen readers. Screen readers read websites aloud for those who are visually impaired or who have difficulty reading, such as people with dyslexia.

Finally, the WAI Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) documents how to make accessible content editors that produce accessible content.

Five of the eight websites analysed mentioned they aimed to adhere to W3C WCAG in their Accessibility statements. Most also specified meeting level AA, which aligns with the aims of the UCL Accessible Moodle project.

Many of the WCAG guidelines are written very broadly, recognising the ability for accessibility to be addressed in different ways. However, there are common practices which make it easier to adhere to these. WebAIM (Web Accessibility In Mind), which is a non-profit organisation connected to Utah State University’s Centre for Persons with Disabilities provides practical advice on how to apply W3C standards when developing websites.

My analysis of websites was led by questions I had around how to apply the WCAG 2.0 guidelines to develop a more accessible Moodle. This blog post summarises common practices used by UK websites interested in being accessible to a broad range of people with various disabilities.

The analysis is broken into the following key areas:

Design
Headings
Skip links
Access keys
Accessibility toolbar
Accessibility statement
Paragraph v div tags
Alternative text
Site maps

Design

“Avoiding anything that draws a person’s attention away from the main content and using good design, such as color, white space, and simple presentation can help users focus on important content and functionality.” (WebAim). The designs on these eight websites are simple, with bright colours and plenty of white space around key elements, such as the main content and lists of news items.

Colours

Blue and white is a common colour scheme. Some websites, particularly those aimed at users with dyslexia and hearing loss, use a lot of bright, primary colours for different menus and areas of the page. This helps people distinguish between different areas of the website and make links between the menu items and the corresponding section they are in. The St Martin in the Field’s website allows users to override the coloured boxes with a simple dark grey background by choosing the ‘High contrast’ option in the accessibility toolbar at the top of the page.

Every website examined, except Scope, has an off-white background, to help reduce glare for those with dyslexia and certain visual impairments. Scope does, however, explain to users how to change text and background colours within their web browsers from their Accessibility statement.

Disability Rights UK also provides a toolbar that changes the default colour scheme (dark blue on an off-white background) with a choice of dark text on a light blue background, or a high contrast option, with light green and yellow text on a dark grey background.

Logo

All eight websites link from their logo to the homepage of the site. To confirm this is also common practice for UK Higher Education institutions’ Moodle installations, I also checked some of these (Bath, Cranfield and SOAS) and they too follow this protocol. Therefore, I suggest the UCL logo on UCL Moodle should link to the UCL Moodle homepage. This was raised by a student in one of the project focus groups, who expected this behaviour and were surprised that, in the current UCL Moodle, the logo does not link anywhere.

Links

Links were either underlined when there weren’t many links on the page; or coloured and usually bold, with an underlined hover state. Only the UK Government website underlined links in the menus. For most sites they did not, as this would have been overwhleming.

The links that were underlined normally, had a hover state with no underline. A few were coloured with no hover states, which may prove problematic for people with colour blindness.

In Moodle, there are links in close proximity to each other, both in the main content region and in side menus, so I suggest an approach where linked text has a unique colour and is bold, but only appears with an underline when someone hovers their mouse over it, to avoid visual clutter. However, it still needs to be clear to those who are colour blind that it is indeed a link, so it may be that links within textual content are underlined and links in blocks and alongside icons (such as the resources and activities), where it is more clear they are links, are not underlined. This causes inconsistency to the visual appearance of links, which may cause confusion, so it’s likely the project will need to go back to the disabled community to check what is best for most people.

Text

Most of the websites examined showed large text, at a minimum of 16px with line heights between 1.25 and 1.6. Although line-height is only included in the AAA level of the WCAG 2.0 standard and the Acessible Moodle project is aiming to adhere to AA level, the line height and paragraph spacing is a current issue that has been identified within UCL Moodle.

WCAG 2.0 AAA expects a way to set “line spacing (leading) [to] at least space-and-a-half within paragraphs, and paragraph spacing [to] at least 1.5 times larger than the line spacing.” (W3C). Therefore, the project will aim for the visual design to meet this requirement.

Icons

One UCL student mentioned they find it easier to recognise icons than links that are purely text. The British Dyslexia Association website makes extensive use of icons to supplement menu item text. Action on Hearing Loss also uses icons to highlight key areas of the page and to supplement call to action buttons. Icons are also common in popular social media websites like Facebook and LinkedIn, so it is likely a large number of UCL students will be familiar with using them to help them navigate. I suggest we use icons to supplement text links, and in some cases, such as the search, replace the text link entirely, taking care to provide adequate alternative text for people using screen readers. In addition, the icons that supplement text should be hidden from screen readers entirely, using techniques defined in the WAI-ARIA guidelines.

Headings

WebAim states that websites should generally only have one <h1> heading tag per page to describe the page title, followed for a <h2> tag the describe the section title. Moodle already follows this convention.

Most of the websites widely use 3 or 4 heading tags, and have only 1 heading 1 (<h1>) tag to describe the title of the page. It is important these headings occur in order, to help blind users understand the navigation structure. Therefore the Atto text editor only allows Moodle course editors to add heading 3 to 5, as headings 1 and 2 already exist on a Moodle course page to describe the course name and section heading. If possible, the TinyMCE text editor should be configured to do likewise, otherwise content will jump incorrectly from one level to the next, as shown below:

H1: page title
H2: section title
H1: content section (added by Moodle course editor who sees heading 1 as the obvious option for a “first” heading and is unaware of the existing heading 1 and 2 on the webpage).

The WAI ATAG guidelines for improving the accessibility of rich text editors are a useful reference here.

Skip links

Skip links are a common way “to bypass blocks of content that are repeated on multiple Web pages.” (W3C).

All but two of the websites use skip links to enable screen reader users to skip straight to the main content area. Most of these are hidden to sighted users, but two of the websites provide visible skip links at the top of the page. These same two websites also provide a skip to navigation or footer links, and one of them also enables users to skip to the accessibility statement. Webaim suggests limiting the number of skip links in most cases, to avoid adding to the problem of too many links on a page (http://webaim.org/techniques/skipnav/). The skip links on Moodle only appear when a user presses the tab key. Webaim suggests this as a good way to avoid affecting the visual design of a website, while still catering to sighted keyboard users (http://webaim.org/techniques/skipnav/). The new theme provides a ‘skip to content’ link, which is warranted given the complexity of the pages.

Access keys

The majority of the websites analysed do not use access keys.

The Action on Hearing Loss website defines access keys on their accessibility page. These are based on the UK Government standard and they describe how to use them (alt on Windows; Ctrl on Mac, although each web browser may differ). Strangely, the UK gov website does not offer any access keys and the standard document on their website has now been archived, even though it seems a number of websites still refer to it and it appears to offer a default consistent schema for UK websites that still use access keys.

S – Skip to content

1 – Return to homepage

2 – News & events

3 – Sitemap

4 – Search site (at the top of the page)

6 – Help / contact

8 – Terms & conditions

9 – Feedback / contact us

0 – Access keys details

WebAim summarises that due to conflicts with browser and screen reader shortcuts, many web developers avoid the use of accesskeys, which explains the low number of websites I analysed that use them. This approach is now outdated and was removed from the WCAG standard when it was revised to version 2.0.

The Adaptable theme, which we will base the new UCL Moodle theme on, uses accesskey=”6″ for search (ALT+6 for Chrome), which does not match the UK government standard. In most cases WebAim explains that browser accesskeys will be ignored and the shortcuts for assistive technologies like JAWS and web browsers will take precedence, so there does not seem much harm in leaving the accesskey in Moodle. Additionally, there is no impetus to create any further accesskeys for quick access to common features. Instead we should concentrate on upskilling screen reader users, and other users of assistive technologies, to better use the native features of their software and hardware.

Accessibility toolbar

Four of the websites provide some form of accessibility toolbar at the top of the page. Three of these provide a variety of 3 text sizes, which seems redundant given that people can simply zoom in and out directly from the browser using the menus or common shortcut keys (Ctrl/Cmd+ and Ctrl/Cmd-).

The British Dyslexia Society provides Recite.me access at the top of the screen if the user chooses to enable it, which reads aloud text, enables background and foreground colours to be changed and enables OpenDyslexi font amongst others to be displayed on the website, amongst other features.There is an open-source Assistive Technology bar (ATbar) that can eaaily be installed on websites, or by end-users, but I have found it problematic, as there seems to be no way to stop the speech once it has started. Even closing the toolbar does not stop the text being spoken aloud.

At UCL, the Disability Services teams work with individuals to install and configure software that performs many of these tasks, so I do not suggest we implement an accessibility toolbar within Moodle itself.

Accessibility statement

All of the website analysed have an accessibility statement of some kind which explains how the organisation attempts to meet the needs of those with disabilities and in most cases provides a way to raise accessibility concerns a user may have with the website.

Most of these are directly accessible at the top of the page (3), or in the footer links (3). The British Dyslexia Association requires users to search for their Accessible Communications statement, and the UK government website expects users to know their Accessibility information is in the help section, which is available from a link in the footer. The scope accessibility statement is the most comprehensive and I suggest we use this as a template for our own Moodle Accessibility statement.

Paragraph v div tags

All the websites analysed use <p> tags for paragraphs, rather than <div> tags, which is the correct way to use this semantic element according to the W3C. Moodle also uses <p> tags correctly, rather than <div> tags, in both the Atto and TinyMCE text editors.

Alternative text

According to W3C WCAG 2.0, images should include alternative (alt) text for any image that is not purely for decoration, so visually impaired users can understand what the image is for. A similar feature is the title tag, which is text that is often applied to links, to explain to sighted users where the link will take them if they click on it. Title tags can also supplement the alt tag on an image where you want that text to appear as a tool tip for sighted users (Penn State).

Five of the websites provided only an alt tag for their images, with no title tag that appears when you hover over the image.

The Action for Blind People website provide captions directly below the images in a paragraph tag and a blank alt tag for their images. Although the example on the W3C website suggests indicating in the alt text that the following paragraph contains text to explain the image, WebAim claim it is fine to use an empty alt tag and include text directly after the image instead. WebAim also suggest using blank alt tags for purely decorative images, so screen readers skip over them entirely. This practice is supported by the W3C amongst others (Penn State; AbilityNet; Oregon State University).

Site maps

One feature requested by a focus group participant during the Accessible Moodle project was to provide a site map of the course. There is a course format that offers this, but currently Moodle does not allow students to choose their own course formats, this can only be changed by the course editor.

Half of the websites analysed provide sitemaps and all but one spelt it as a single word. Since it is such a large site, the BBC website provides a separate site map for each area of the website. I suggest the project team raise the idea of allowing students to choose their own course formats and if this happens then investigate the sitemap course format. In addition, I suggest raising the idea of providing a site map to users to help them navigate each Moodle course.

Summary

So what does this mean for the development of a more Accessible UCL Moodle?

From my investigation of common practice across eight UK websites, I would suggest the following for the development of a more accessible UCL Moodle:

UCL Moodle should use an off-white background in its content and menu areas.
The UCL logo should link to the UCL Moodle homepage.
Links should underline on hover to avoid visual clutter in Moodle courses, most of which contain many links.. The potentially exception to this is for the content areas, where it may be useful to indicate links with an underline to supplement the coloured text for those who can’t distinguish this colour difference. This is providing the inconsistency in behaviour between the list of links and the links within content does not prove confusing for the majority of users. This therefore, needs further thought and consultation.
Text should be 16px for paragraphs, with a line height of 1.5 (times the normal spacing) and paragraphs another 1.5 times larger than the line spacing.
- Icons should supplement text links and in some cases replace the text entirely where the icon easily recognised as performing a particular function (such as the search icon). Icons need alternative text where replacing text and need to use ARIA tags to hide them from screen readers, where supplementing text.
The TinyMCE editor should be configured to only show headings 3-5, to ensure a clear page structure for screen-reader users.
Access keys should not be used as this is an outdated accessibility feature that is mostly overwritten by browser and assistive technology shortcut keys.
We should teach assistive technology users to use the shortcuts native to the software.
An Accessibility toolbar (like ATBar) is not required due to the availability of assistive technologies for those who need it, especially since it does not allow text to speech to be paused and resumed.
An Accessiblity statement should be available, either in the header or footer, containing similar information to what is provided on the Scope Accessibility webpage.
Alternative text should be used for all images portraying information, or that are used as a link. Any images where a tooltip would be useful, such as icons to explain their meaning, should also include a title tag. Purely decorative images should have an empty alt tag, so screen readers skip over them, which simplifies navigation of the page.
The project should raise the idea of making a sitemap available for each Moodle course to the Moodle development community, to enable students to easily locate resources and activities on the page.