Moodle
  1. Moodle
  2. MDL-20409 META: Accessibility issues raised in the CANnect Accessibility report by Randall Hansen
  3. MDL-20479

Visual cues in "Marks" can be confusing

        Details

        • Type: Sub-task Sub-task
        • Status: Closed
        • Priority: Minor Minor
        • Resolution: Fixed
        • Affects Version/s: 1.9.5
        • Fix Version/s: 2.1
        • Component/s: Accessibility, Quiz
        • Labels:
          None
        • Affected Branches:
          MOODLE_19_STABLE
        • Fixed Branches:
          MOODLE_21_STABLE
        • Rank:
          777

          Description

          Each multiple-choice quiz question contains text like this: "Marks: --/1"

          Why it matters

          To a sighted user this likely means, "You've not yet received a score for this question, and one point is possible." A screen reader user hears, "Marks colon dash dash slash one." This is difficult to understand.

          Possible solution

          If a question has not been attempted, do not show this text. If a question has been attempted, explicitly state the result: "Marks received: 1 of a possible 1."

            Issue Links

            will be (partly) resolved by

            Improvement - An enhancement to an existing Moodle feature. MDL-20636 META: Question engine re-write

            • Blocker - Blocks development and/or testing, prevents Moodle from running (applicable to bugs only)
            • Closed

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              Tim Hunt added a comment -

              I think we should show this even before the question is attempted. For example, most exam papers I have ever done have had an indication of the marks available like [4] by each question.

              Note that in Moodle, this text appears on the left, under the question number.

              My suggestion is (I think brevity is important): before the question is graded is says:

              Marked out of 1.00

              and after the question has been graded

              Marks 0.75 out of 1.00

              By the way, how do screen readers cope with decimal numbers like 0.75?

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              Tim Hunt added a comment - I think we should show this even before the question is attempted. For example, most exam papers I have ever done have had an indication of the marks available like [4] by each question. Note that in Moodle, this text appears on the left, under the question number. My suggestion is (I think brevity is important): before the question is graded is says: Marked out of 1.00 and after the question has been graded Marks 0.75 out of 1.00 By the way, how do screen readers cope with decimal numbers like 0.75?
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              Tim Hunt added a comment -

              I have a nice solution to this in my question engine rewrite, which will probably now only go into Moodle 2.1.

              Therefore, I am disinclined to try to change this in Moodle 2.0, so reassigning.

              http://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Question_Engine_2

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              Tim Hunt added a comment - I have a nice solution to this in my question engine rewrite, which will probably now only go into Moodle 2.1. Therefore, I am disinclined to try to change this in Moodle 2.0, so reassigning. http://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Question_Engine_2
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              Tim Hunt added a comment -

              Fixed in 2.1 dev now that MDL-20636 has been integrated.

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              Tim Hunt added a comment - Fixed in 2.1 dev now that MDL-20636 has been integrated.

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