[nabs-l] Moodle Accessibility

[Todd Orlowski]

I"ve heard that moodle is pretty accessible with Jaws. it sounds like moodle is not our problem its the person at the institution coding the page example broken links. As far as making items accessible this can be done but it takes time for the school to do this I mean extra time which it should be done if you ask especially if you have a disability on file. I'd ask the school who is encharge of moodle and contact this directly and explain you issue. If they are not helpful contact moodle support. 

Thanks 
Todd Orlowski 
Missouri Western State university 
Octt 21, 2011, at 10:41 PM, Marvin Hunkin wrote:

> hi.
> using jaws 12.0.1170 and jaws 13.0.241.
> and doing a online diploma in website development from http://wsi.tafensw.edu.au, and they use http://wwwmoodle.org
> which is not very accessible with jaws.
> i have e-mailed support at  support at moodle.org about that jaws 12 and 13, in firefox, does not read some of the content after a while, and just says blank.
> and it has javascript, or java submenus, and jaws gets stuck on that.
> firefox 7.0, was really bad, and after a while had to try internet explorer 9.
> and it read the content a little better, but a couple of times, got stuck on the submenu.
> so, maybe if everyone wrote to http://www.moodle.org, might be able to get some real progress about this.
> has any one else used moodle, with a screen reader, and their experiences, good, bad, the ugly.
> and at the moment, the lecturers have to rewrite their content, and send it to me via e-mail.
> so in three months, have only completed three subjects.
> which is a slow and timely process.
> they also have other online students, face to face, and i have tried to ask them, and they said that moodle, is making changes to their e-learning platform, but could take a few months.
> and when i was able to login.
> a lot of broken links, enrollment keys, to login, and a combo box, when i was in the right area, no keyboard shortcuts, and some combo box items, just said item 3, or what ever.
> this is really, really annoying.
> so my question is.
> for a large institution, how easy is to fix accessibility,  of education institutions, to hand create the e-learning pages, and then put accessibility into these pages?
> and if there are any other more easier and more accessible e-learning systems, what are they, and how complex, or simple for a large institution, to move their content to this new platform.
> any feedback, suggestions, or where i go from here.
> want to use the e-learning platform, but a real challenge for a student with a dsiaiblity, of mine, bieng blind and using a screen reader.
> i did test with nvda, and got similar results in internet explorer 9, firefox 7.0.
> marvin.
> 
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