Hi John,
No the module is a block which has to be set by the administrator so is visible at all times.
Regards,
Ian
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Sent: 19 February 2012 15:39
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Subject: Re: Moodle
Can the accessibility plug in be employed by a user or must it be installed on the central noodle server?
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On 19 Feb 2012, at 13:04, "Ian Cousins" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I work at the same university as Chris who opened this thread, but unbeknown to Chris have been using a Moodle 1.9 for the past 3 years for my research into disability in higher education, specifically would Web 2.0 technologies be a useful means of empowerment for disabled students thus enhancing their learning.
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> I have employed the 'Accessibility' Module plug-in downloaded from Moodle which incorporates a series of buttons to increase and decrease the font size, it also has three buttons to change the contrast colours to black text on light beige, black on light blue for lower contrast and yellow on black for high contrast regardless which theme is used, thus supporting some of the Meares Irlen visual stress / dyslexia issues. I have also had my site successfully tested by a Window Eyes and Jaws screen reader users, both of which had no issues with Moodle.
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> The Window Eyes user works within our Enabling Support department and came from an environment where Moodle was their chosen VLE until their merger with UWS who preferred Blackboard at that time. I am not aware of him having any issues with accessibility of Moodle.
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> My only other comment would be, although Moodle is open source, does not mean that it has not been rigorously tested by literally millions of people around the world. If there were serious accessibility issues it would be unlikely that it would be employed by universities such as The Open University, The University of Glasgow, The University of California, The University of Georgia, and the education department at MIT to name but a few.
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> I now administer three Moodle's for research students, and can say we have never had any issues with accessibility thus far.
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> All the best,
> Ian
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> Sent: 17 February 2012 17:54
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> Please also share with me as I am rather concerned about the accessibility of our noodle installation
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> Thanks
> John
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> On 17 Feb 2012, at 15:17, "Deborah Viney" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
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> we're making the same transition Chris, so please could you share the responses you get?
> regards, Deb
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> On 17 February 2012 15:15, Chris Bradshaw <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
> UWS is planning a VLE transfer from Blackboard to Moodle and I would appreciate any advice on Equality and Diversity issue that have arisen either during such a transition or in the accessibility of Moodle itself. Please reply offline to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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