Details
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Type:
Improvement
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Status:
Closed
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Priority:
Major
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Resolution: Fixed
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Affects Version/s: 1.9.3
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Component/s: Accessibility, Questions
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Labels:None
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Environment:Moodle 1.8.2+
MySQL 5.0.45
PHP 4.4.7
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Affected Branches:MOODLE_19_STABLE
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Fixed Branches:MOODLE_18_STABLE, MOODLE_19_STABLE
Description
Hello,
I'm working at a school for visually impaired and blind people in Germany and we are using Moodle. We did some modifications to core-modules like quiz.
Improvements / changes in our quiz-version:
- Question number gets marked as headline
If navigating with screenreader software (tested with JAWS6/7 and Webformator 2.3) you have build-in features like "jump to text" or "jump to next headline". So if you mark the question number as headline, a screenreader user presses a shortkey (offered by the screenreader) and is on the right place to answer the question.
- short keys for navigating for and back on question pages:
We are only using 1 question per page to make quiz usable especially for our blind participants. They know 1 question and at the end 2 switches. As a result, you get many question pages. There are currently links presented for back and next, but it is not easy to get with screenreader.
We implemented 2 shortkeys (Alt + . / Alt + ,) you can press for back and next, which makes it pretty easy for our blind people.
- True/false, shortanswer and multichoice questions:
The question is displayed as Alt-tag for input fields or radio buttons
It would be nice to see some of my mentioned improvements in the next versions of Moodle. Maybe there has to be a new debate about Moodle and support of Accesskeys?
Kind regards, Daniel
The other parts of this bug have since been fixed as part of other changes, so restricting the scope to the one remaining issue.
They question number is now a <h2>
Access keys is a topic that would have be be debated much more widely. The quiz navigation for students has changed (I hope improved) for Moodle 2.0. It would be really great to have some accessibility testing of the new interface before the release, if possible.
So what is left is getting rid of the alt on the radio buttons/checkboxes. They already have labels associated with them.