Moodle

Convert course formats to table-less

Details

  • Type: Bug Bug
  • Status: Closed Closed
  • Priority: Minor Minor
  • Resolution: Duplicate
  • Affects Version/s: 1.6, 1.6.1, 1.6.2, 1.6.3, 1.6.4, 1.7, 1.7.1, 1.7.2
  • Fix Version/s: None
  • Component/s: Accessibility
  • Labels:
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  • Database:
    Any
  • Affected Branches:
    MOODLE_16_STABLE, MOODLE_17_STABLE

Description

As part of the initial accessibility work in Moodle 1.6 a table-less 'weekcss' course format was demonstrated. The significant point is that the linear view of Moodle's 3 columns with a table is, Blocks - Main content - Blocks. With 'weekscss' it's Blocks - Blocks - Main content - all blocks are together. (This order is a result of the stylesheet which applies margins to the central content and floats the left and right columns.)

http://alistapart.com/articles/workingwithothers, section "What do you mean, nav should come first?" suggests that blocks first can be preferable.
The existing 'Skip block' links will help, but a 'Skip navigation' link (Bug MDL-4994) would be better.

Can the other course formats be made table-less (discussed with Martin D)? - lams, scorm, social, topics, weeks. The OU uses a 'study calendar' format which uses similar CSS to the 'weekscss' format, so I consider it well proven.

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Vy-Shane Sin Fat added a comment -

Hi Martin, assigning to you so that you know are aware of this.

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Vy-Shane Sin Fat added a comment - Hi Martin, assigning to you so that you know are aware of this.
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Jenny Gray added a comment -

I was assuming (probably wrongly) that this would get picked up as part of the 1.8 accessibility improvements. The OU's OpenLearn site uses the topics format, and I'd be very interested in changing that to topics-css.

Are there plans for any-one to do this work?

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Jenny Gray added a comment - I was assuming (probably wrongly) that this would get picked up as part of the 1.8 accessibility improvements. The OU's OpenLearn site uses the topics format, and I'd be very interested in changing that to topics-css. Are there plans for any-one to do this work?
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Martin Dougiamas added a comment -

We really want to do it, it just turned out that making AJAX work again on top of that was too much work to do right now (at the time the deadlines were very urgent!)

At this point no-one is tasked with this though.

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Martin Dougiamas added a comment - We really want to do it, it just turned out that making AJAX work again on top of that was too much work to do right now (at the time the deadlines were very urgent!) At this point no-one is tasked with this though.
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Martin Dougiamas added a comment -

Continued on MDL-9306

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Martin Dougiamas added a comment - Continued on MDL-9306

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