Moodle

WYSIWYG editor is difficult for sight-impaired users

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  • Affected Branches:
    MOODLE_19_STABLE

Description

Several pages use a JavaScript WYSIWYG editor for entering text. These are notoriously difficult for blind people.

Why it matters

The Moodle WYSIWYG presents blind users with a large table of unlabeled and inaccessible (e.g., no "alt" attributes) images and form controls. The best case for a blind user is some wasted time figuring out they're in a WYSIWYG editor and then exiting it.

Possible solution

WYSIWYG should be turned off by default.

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Rossiani Wijaya added a comment -

The preference of using WYSIWYG editor can be set in:

Site Administrations -> Plugins -> Text editors -> Manage editors

To disable the WYSIWYG editor (TinyMCE HTML editor), change the eye icon for the enable column.

open eye icon means enable and close eye icon means disable.

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Rossiani Wijaya added a comment - The preference of using WYSIWYG editor can be set in: Site Administrations -> Plugins -> Text editors -> Manage editors To disable the WYSIWYG editor (TinyMCE HTML editor), change the eye icon for the enable column. open eye icon means enable and close eye icon means disable.
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Helen Foster added a comment -

Rosie, thanks for your comment. However, I don't think disabling the HTML editor or changing its position in the list of active text editors is a solution to this issue, since doing so affects all users.

Maybe an enable/disable HTML editor setting in the edit profile page is a solution? Currently there are settings for AJAX and Javascript, and for Screenreader which affect whether the HTML editor is displayed or not.

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Helen Foster added a comment - Rosie, thanks for your comment. However, I don't think disabling the HTML editor or changing its position in the list of active text editors is a solution to this issue, since doing so affects all users. Maybe an enable/disable HTML editor setting in the edit profile page is a solution? Currently there are settings for AJAX and Javascript, and for Screenreader which affect whether the HTML editor is displayed or not.
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Helen Foster added a comment -

Just wondering if someone is using a screenreader, is this detected automatically or do they need to somehow find their user profile page and set screenreader to Yes?

If screenreader is set to Yes in a user's profile, I assume this results in the HTML editor being disabled. (Rosie, perhaps you could check this.)

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Helen Foster added a comment - Just wondering if someone is using a screenreader, is this detected automatically or do they need to somehow find their user profile page and set screenreader to Yes? If screenreader is set to Yes in a user's profile, I assume this results in the HTML editor being disabled. (Rosie, perhaps you could check this.)
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Rossiani Wijaya added a comment -

Hi Helen,

Enabling screenreader in user profile page, does not automatically disabling HTML editor for the user.
I'm trying to find out the use of screenreader option in moodle.

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Rossiani Wijaya added a comment - Hi Helen, Enabling screenreader in user profile page, does not automatically disabling HTML editor for the user. I'm trying to find out the use of screenreader option in moodle.
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Eloy Lafuente (stronk7) added a comment -

NOTE: This issue was assigned to the STABLE backlog without complete triaging process. Marking it as triaged, but with this note for future reference.

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Eloy Lafuente (stronk7) added a comment - NOTE: This issue was assigned to the STABLE backlog without complete triaging process. Marking it as triaged, but with this note for future reference.

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