Moodle Brickfield accessibility tool

A new feature in Moodle 3.11

Moodle 3.11 incorporates the Brickfield Accessibility Starter Toolkit to help you create accessible course content.

The Accessibility Starter Toolkit allows teachers and administrators to assess the accessibility of the course content, and to identify any common accessibility issues.

You can also get a visual display of the error, and a report with an overview of all errors that may exist.

Note that in order to use this tool your Moodle site administrator has to register using the API for secure keys with Brickfield, and then activate the plugin.

Once installed teachers can add the Accessibility review block and click the “Submit for analysis” button. After a few minutes the results of the analysis are available.

A number of reports are available including:

• Error list with direct links, which makes it really easy to navigate to their location and fix them.
• Activity breakdown, showing pass ratios per activity
• Content types, showing error counts per type of content
• Summary report, showing a summary of the other reports combined

Administrators also have site wide reports including:

• Error list with direct links, which makes it really easy to navigate to their location and fix them.
• Activity breakdown, showing pass ratios per activity
• Content types, showing error counts per type of content
• Summary report, showing a summary of the other reports combined

If accessibility matters to you, and it should(!), then this is definitely worth exploring when you upgrade to Moodle 3.11 or later 🙂

https://docs.moodle.org/311/en/Accessibility_Toolkit

If you are from a large organisations looking for the enterprise product then visit the Brickfield Education Labs website.

• About
• Latest Posts

Stuart Mealor

Managing Director at HRDNZ

Stuart is interested in all things e-learning, with specific interests in Moodle, e-learning strategy, and business development.His experience in education over 30 years, MBA in International Business, and knowledge of e-learning systems implementation, together with graphic design background, give him a unique skill set for e-learning projects.

Latest posts by Stuart Mealor (see all)

• H5P periodic table – 8th September 2023
• Moodle 4.0 – 15th May 2022
• Moodle 4.0 other highlights – 14th May 2022