Reichert, Heather - FS, OR: Thank you.
Reichert, Heather - FS, OR: Thank you, Eric, and thank you everyone.
Reichert, Heather - FS, OR: For joining us on this webinar on accessibility best practices.
Reichert, Heather - FS, OR: And I'm going to turn it over to Eric from Moodle US and he'll be guiding us.
Reichert, Heather - FS, OR: Today. So thank you.
Eric from Moodle: Thank you so much.
Eric from Moodle: OK, I wanna share my screen a little bit.
Eric from Moodle: My name is Eric.
Eric from Moodle: I've been working with Moodle as a platform for the last 30 years and with
Eric from Moodle: Moodle as a company for IBM and a little bit more.
Eric from Moodle: And we're gonna go over accessibility in Moodle.
Eric from Moodle: I now you have a lot of courses in Moodle and you you you know how to use your
Eric from Moodle: Moodle site and all the features that you have in there.
Eric from Moodle: But this session is going to go through a couple of of things.
Eric from Moodle: One part is a theoretical part. Like you know,
Eric from Moodle: kind of like sensibilizing or having some sensitivity when it comes to
Eric from Moodle: accessibility.
Eric from Moodle: I know, and I'm supposing almost also, I'm sorry that your hands on,
Eric from Moodle: so I'm gonna show you some of the theoretical part, but at the same time,
Eric from Moodle: then I'm gonna switch to a model sandbox.
Eric from Moodle: So you so we can kind of see what the process.
Eric from Moodle: Looks like on your bridle side, and please if you have any questions or
Eric from Moodle: anything that might arise, let me know and right at the moment and
Eric from Moodle: we can go over it.
Eric from Moodle: So that sounds good to you guys, to everyone.
Eric from Moodle: Awesome. You can see my screen right now.
Eric from Moodle: Is that correct?
Reichert, Heather - FS, OR: Yep, we can see your screen and do you want
Reichert, Heather - FS, OR: folks to raise their hands or just just jump in and shout out their their
Reichert, Heather - FS, OR: questions?
Eric from Moodle: Yeah, I think just jumping in would be fine.
Eric from Moodle: Is it supposed to be? You know, something relaxed?
Eric from Moodle: We're here to help. I mean, saying to have fun.
Eric from Moodle: It's a little bit of a stretch, but you know, being relaxed and you like,
Eric from Moodle: let's go over whatever's needed.
Eric from Moodle: Sounds good. Awesome.
Reichert, Heather - FS, OR: Perfect. Yep. Thank you.
Eric from Moodle: OK.
Eric from Moodle: So what is accessibility?
Eric from Moodle: It's just accessibility means creating a website that everyone can, you know,
Eric from Moodle: use in a comfortable way.
Eric from Moodle: No matter their abilities.
Eric from Moodle: So you probably have seen a lot of different buildings and you can see that
Eric from Moodle: some buildings will have a ramp, some buildings will not have a ramp.
Eric from Moodle: In any other kind of accommodations, when it comes to, you know?
Eric from Moodle: Infrastructure to accommodate people with disabilities.
Eric from Moodle: All of those accommodations not only help people with disabilities.
Eric from Moodle: This would also help everyone else navigate the building when it comes to
Eric from Moodle: signage and when it comes to ramps, when it comes to automatic doors, right?
Eric from Moodle: Like sometimes when you go to a hotel and you have a lot of luggage,
Eric from Moodle: you have no disability. When you don't have enough hands to open
Eric from Moodle: the door.
Eric from Moodle: So there's a button there that you can just, you know,
Eric from Moodle: push and then they doors will open, right?
Eric from Moodle: So all of those things are are part of what accessibility is about.
Eric from Moodle: We often think that these accommodations are only for people that have any
Eric from Moodle: disability or some disability, but it's not really the case,
Eric from Moodle: especially when it comes to learning, and specifically when it comes to
Eric from Moodle: learning online or through an LMS.
Eric from Moodle: So it's it's a really good thing that that helps everyone that's consuming your
Eric from Moodle: your content.
Eric from Moodle: An important part of this is just as designing a building.
Eric from Moodle: You know, if you have your blueprint of a building
Eric from Moodle: that actually has accessibility in mind, it's it's going to be easier to build
Eric from Moodle: your, you know, the the, the final product, the final.
Eric from Moodle: Building is going to be properly constructed, right?
Eric from Moodle: On the other hand, if you build your building with no
Eric from Moodle: accessibility in mind, and then you just try to fix it,
Eric from Moodle: that makes it a little harder.
Eric from Moodle: Right. That's a little bit more difficult
Eric from Moodle: because we kind of have to do a lot of adaptations and like look into different
Eric from Moodle: things that are already set up and then you adapt them.
Eric from Moodle: So our goal here is going to be trying to avoid fixing your courses.
Eric from Moodle: And trying to build your courses from the beginning with accessibility in mind.
Eric from Moodle: So it's just a way more pleasant experience for everyone.
Eric from Moodle: Including ourselves as consumer consumers and also as instructional designers or
Eric from Moodle: Moodle designers or even, you know, even if you're copying and pasting stuff
Eric from Moodle: into Moodle, it's way it's going to be way easier to
Eric from Moodle: handle.
Eric from Moodle: If you have accessibility in mind from the beginning, OK,
Eric from Moodle: So what is this ability?
Eric from Moodle: You know, people with disabilities are individuals
Eric from Moodle: with long term physical, mental, intellectual or sensory conditions.
Eric from Moodle: That, together with various barriers, can affect their full and equal
Eric from Moodle: participation in society, basically.
Eric from Moodle: This definition has been discussed a lot, especially the long term part,
Eric from Moodle: because you can also acquire a temporary disability, right?
Eric from Moodle: Maybe you had an accident, or maybe you were looking at the
Eric from Moodle: fireplace for too long and then you feel like you can't see.
Eric from Moodle: Your eyes are burning and you really need a little a little bit more of.
Eric from Moodle: Of help when it comes to singing.
Eric from Moodle: Or maybe you have some kind of condition like diabetes and then you have an
Eric from Moodle: affectation in your eyes.
Eric from Moodle: So another method of consuming content is going to help you, right?
Eric from Moodle: Or maybe you're just really.
Eric from Moodle: I don't know you are washing dishes or something like that and you want to take
Eric from Moodle: advantage of that time while you're washing dishes, listening to something.
Eric from Moodle: Does this all make sense so?
Eric from Moodle: It is not like.
Eric from Moodle: Closed and really strict definition.
Eric from Moodle: It can flow and also you can acquire a disability when you're older or when you
Eric from Moodle: get to a certain age. You know, accidents, conditions, transient conditions can also.
Eric from Moodle: You know, give you the need to consume content in a
Eric from Moodle: different way or in a different energetic, let's say.
Eric from Moodle: Medium.
Eric from Moodle: OK.
Eric from Moodle: So when it comes to that in the educational realm,
Eric from Moodle: we talk about universal design for learning,
Eric from Moodle: which is having in mind all those little things that we need to accommodate for
Eric from Moodle: learners. We need to give users or learners
Eric from Moodle: depending on how you want to call it.
Eric from Moodle: Different ways to to consume content, to participate,
Eric from Moodle: and to show their their learning.
Eric from Moodle: But I know this might seem seem a little.
Eric from Moodle: A little technical, but it's it's really it's really not.
Eric from Moodle: So what we want to do is have multiple means of engagement in our courses.
Eric from Moodle: We want to allow students to have certain freedoms,
Eric from Moodle: like allowing them to choose whether they work in a group or individually.
Eric from Moodle: Of course, it depends on the activities on the
Eric from Moodle: course, on the goals on on your course, what is happening on your course,
Eric from Moodle: or what you're actually.
Eric from Moodle: Having them.
Eric from Moodle: Complete or reach, but if you have the possibility of them
Eric from Moodle: having that choice, that's a good thing.
Eric from Moodle: Also trying to be not as directive as we want to, we sometimes want to be.
Eric from Moodle: I don't know if that's the case in in your context,
Eric from Moodle: but sometimes as designers we really want to have control of every single little
Eric from Moodle: thing.
Eric from Moodle: And sometimes that might be a little detrimental when it comes to people that
Eric from Moodle: might have some.
Eric from Moodle: Kind of disability, or even different personalities, right?
Eric from Moodle: We sometimes want a leader and we want to assign who the leader is and.
Eric from Moodle: That person maybe may not feel super comfortable with that.
Eric from Moodle: They might have some kind of, you know, anxiety condition,
Eric from Moodle: and we really don't want to trigger that in any any way.
Eric from Moodle: So given that freedom is is important and being considerate with your students is
Eric from Moodle: also vital.
Eric from Moodle: So also you know.
Eric from Moodle: Providing information about upcoming classes or courses so they can plan ahead.
Eric from Moodle: What we want to do is, you know.
Eric from Moodle: I call it instructional transparency.
Eric from Moodle: We want our users to know what is going to happen.
Eric from Moodle: How is that going to happen?
Eric from Moodle: How are they going to be graded and why are they going to be graded like that?
Eric from Moodle: The more information the user has or our learners have.
Eric from Moodle: That's going to make it easier for everyone, and that is also going to.
Eric from Moodle: You know, improve all the communication in between
Eric from Moodle: you as a designer, you as a teacher or as an instructor,
Eric from Moodle: and the people that are learning whatever you're teaching or whatever you're
Eric from Moodle: showing. Does this all make sense so far?
Eric from Moodle: We're kind of trying to avoid surprises.
Eric from Moodle: You know, like, hey, I didn't know I was gonna be graded on
Eric from Moodle: that.
Eric from Moodle: I didn't know I had to be the leader on this thing.
Eric from Moodle: I don't even want to be the leader, so we're trying to adjust expectations.
Eric from Moodle: Another part of this is multiple means of representation.
Eric from Moodle: So whenever we get content to our users, we really wanna be giving them editable
Eric from Moodle: files so they can handle them.
Eric from Moodle: Sometimes they call these kind of files reflowable.
Eric from Moodle: What does that mean?
Eric from Moodle: The user needs to be able to change the. Maybe the color of the background maybe?
Eric from Moodle: The size of the of the text, everything that they can.
Eric from Moodle: And the more they can modify and handle, the better.
Eric from Moodle: You know, we we are not aware of all the
Eric from Moodle: disabilities that might be there or what even they're studying techniques are.
Eric from Moodle: So having things that can be modified and handled and reflow.
Eric from Moodle: Ed, it's a great idea for users that have
Eric from Moodle: specific needs.
Eric from Moodle: Just and also we have to keep in mind that not all users.
Eric from Moodle: Have a disability and then the ones that have a disability.
Eric from Moodle: They are not required to, you know.
Eric from Moodle: Let you know and some other people have a disability and they don't know they have
Eric from Moodle: a disability, so it's not like we're absolutely clear
Eric from Moodle: of who has a disability of who doesn't, and that doesn't necessarily need to.
Eric from Moodle: Influence our decision on whether we have accessible content or not.
Eric from Moodle: We're gonna assume everyone has one, and we're gonna be signed.
Eric from Moodle: Design our content on your on your courses based on that.
Eric from Moodle: If and should we have classes and if we have the possibility we we should record
Eric from Moodle: them either audio or video or both?
Eric from Moodle: If it's, if you know if you have the possibility
Eric from Moodle: that helps everyone, it makes communication way better and I'm
Eric from Moodle: sure now that we're doing everything online.
Eric from Moodle: You have gone to, you know, to a previous recording of one meeting
Eric from Moodle: and you said like, hey, I forgot about that thing.
Eric from Moodle: So I'm just going to review it so you see if you have this ability or not,
Eric from Moodle: it's it's helpful for everyone, right.
Eric from Moodle: So let's try to do that and usually.
Eric from Moodle: The effort that we have to put into recording a class is small, right?
Eric from Moodle: It's just, maybe sometimes it's a click if you're
Eric from Moodle: doing it online directly, or sometimes it's like wearing.
Eric from Moodle: A little microphone and it's hooked up to your phone.
Eric from Moodle: So the investment when it comes to time and probably money is minimal.
Eric from Moodle: You know in regards of the all the things that we get in return,
Eric from Moodle: if we have any videos, it's important to have transcripts of the
Eric from Moodle: videos. A lot of people need those in order to
Eric from Moodle: consume them, right?
Eric from Moodle: So we're going to go over that in more. I'm just.
Eric from Moodle: I'm just trying to prime you into what?
Eric from Moodle: Kind of things we're going to do in, in model, OK.
Eric from Moodle: And also we need to provide multiple means of actions and expression,
Eric from Moodle: which means different assessment methods like projects if possible.
Eric from Moodle: Because relying on quizzes also might create some kind of anxiety for some
Eric from Moodle: users, there's a lot that we need to have in
Eric from Moodle: mind when it comes to the crisis and and the way that we're assessing.
Eric from Moodle: But if we have different ways of assessment that.
Eric from Moodle: That also provides opportunities to, let's say,
Eric from Moodle: sparkle to users that may not don't sparkle.
Eric from Moodle: Usually in tests I don't know if this has ever happened to you,
Eric from Moodle: but you study like super hard and you know everything that you need to know
Eric from Moodle: about the content of the course and then you show up to the quiz and you know,
Eric from Moodle: you see the paper you.
Eric from Moodle: See the screen with the quizzes with the questions and you do all of a sudden.
Eric from Moodle: Everything's gone, right?
Eric from Moodle: It's not that you don't know.
Eric from Moodle: It's not that you're not engaged.
Eric from Moodle: It's just you got anxiety, amnesia, and then that's it.
Eric from Moodle: You are failing because of the overall feeling of it.
Eric from Moodle: If there's other way that we can that we can assess, why wouldn't we?
Eric from Moodle: Right. I also understand that some of the
Eric from Moodle: courses and some of the content that we have need to be they,
Eric from Moodle: they just need to be.
Eric from Moodle: Assessed with a quiz.
Eric from Moodle: And that's also valid.
Eric from Moodle: And there's also other ways that we can do that.
Eric from Moodle: You know that that we can accommodate to that time constraints is one of them,
Eric from Moodle: right?
Eric from Moodle: We need to think about maybe some people might have a disability or dis quiz might
Eric from Moodle: be creating some anxiety, so deciding whether we're going to put a
Eric from Moodle: timer in there or not.
Eric from Moodle: It's it's a thing that we have to think about.
Eric from Moodle: Moodle has a the possibility to have a timer for the quiz and and have the user
Eric from Moodle: hide that timer.
Eric from Moodle: They need to.
Eric from Moodle: This all makes sense.
Eric from Moodle: So many ways to show their learning, not just one way.
Eric from Moodle: It's kind of like.
Eric from Moodle: Making learning a little more democratic, if you will.
Eric from Moodle: I don't.
Eric from Moodle: I don't know if that's the right word, but you know, kind of like, OK.
Eric from Moodle: I need you to learn.
Eric from Moodle: Show me that you learn right?
Eric from Moodle: And that's probably enough.
Eric from Moodle: Is the product showing learning?
Eric from Moodle: That's that's the goal.
Eric from Moodle: That's the finding goal. And another thing that's important.
Eric from Moodle: Supporting a clear tracking of progress.
Eric from Moodle: We cannot have users know how they're doing.
Eric from Moodle: We don't want to wait until the end of a course or until the end of a training
Eric from Moodle: session to track the users or the OR learners progress.
Eric from Moodle: So we have different ways to do that as well.
Eric from Moodle: But having that instructional transparency,
Eric from Moodle: it's always always always super helpful.
Eric from Moodle: OK.
Eric from Moodle: So good practices, I don't want to bore you with my you know,
Eric from Moodle: speech.
Eric from Moodle: One of the things that we can do is provide content and materials in advance.
Eric from Moodle: It's that requires some planning, of course,
Eric from Moodle: and that doesn't mean that you cannot be spontaneous.
Eric from Moodle: You're in a course or during a class, but it is important that that we have our
Eric from Moodle: courses pre designed and have have that flow.
Eric from Moodle: That content in that logic and dynamic in our courses predetermined.
Eric from Moodle: We want to know what we're going to ask for.
Eric from Moodle: What are the content?
Eric from Moodle: What are the resources that our users are going to see?
Eric from Moodle: And we want them to be able to see that from the beginning.
Eric from Moodle: I know that sometimes we want to control the flow of a course.
Eric from Moodle: Maybe you know you have A and then you only want them to see activity B after
Eric from Moodle: they saw activity B.
Eric from Moodle: I'm sorry a so we can also do that, but we don't want a lot of store prices
Eric from Moodle: when it comes to to restricting access, OK,
Eric from Moodle: so accessible formats to allow students to adjust font, font size,
Eric from Moodle: colors and other elements as needed.
Eric from Moodle: This is especially helpful for people that read lips,
Eric from Moodle: so sometimes you will have someone that has.
Eric from Moodle: That that's deaf and.
Eric from Moodle: They read leaps.
Eric from Moodle: But if we all of a sudden start talking about some weird topic with some
Eric from Moodle: technical.
Eric from Moodle: Jargon. Well, it's going to be a little difficult with
Eric from Moodle: because they have no context yet.
Eric from Moodle: So having all the content in advance is important for for that specific.
Eric from Moodle: Do you have any question?
Frank, Michael (Mike): Oh sorry, I unhit hit the unmute button.
Eric from Moodle: Oh, not a problem. No problem, frank.
Eric from Moodle: I'm sorry, Michael. Right, Mike. Yeah. OK.
Eric from Moodle: So yeah, and people who are blind can have
Eric from Moodle: materials.
Eric from Moodle: You know, read aloud by a screen reader, and this is one of the things that is
Eric from Moodle: really important when it comes to creating our content,
Eric from Moodle: a lot of people are going to be using a screen reader.
Eric from Moodle: At least some people are gonna.
Eric from Moodle: Use a screen reader and having that in mind is gonna allow us to build our
Eric from Moodle: course in a more efficient way.
Eric from Moodle: In a more accessible way, we once were building something we can't.
Eric from Moodle: We should have in mind and ask ourselves, how would a screen reader see this?
Eric from Moodle: Or how would it be?
Eric from Moodle: How would how would it be, you know, spoken?
Eric from Moodle: Also, people with autism or on the autism
Eric from Moodle: spectrum can prepare and understand what will happen in advance.
Eric from Moodle: So again, no surprises.
Eric from Moodle: OK, good.
Eric from Moodle: All the way to Lewis.
Eric from Moodle: Always, always writing clear instructions.
Eric from Moodle: And feedback special. This is especially helpful for people
Eric from Moodle: with anxiety, autism and other mental health conditions.
Eric from Moodle: So this is super important. My mom used to say in asking is giving.
Eric from Moodle: I don't know if that makes sense in English,
Eric from Moodle: but you know the way you ask for things is the same way you're going to get those
Eric from Moodle: things back handed to you.
Eric from Moodle: So if we are clear, if we are.
Eric from Moodle: Let's say simple. If we go right to the point.
Eric from Moodle: It's more likely for for us to get the right product or is it more?
Eric from Moodle: It's more like likely for our users to.
Eric from Moodle: Have the course of action that we are.
Eric from Moodle: Trying to get does that make sense?
Eric from Moodle: OK.
Eric from Moodle: So if we are presenting something on a screen and and they have it and there's
Eric from Moodle: instructions, just keep them on the screen,
Eric from Moodle: have that screen just show being shown all the time with the instructions.
Eric from Moodle: Use clear direct instructions and feedback. OK, don't I?
Eric from Moodle: I know sometimes we like to sugarcoat things and trying to like write it in a
Eric from Moodle: way that.
Eric from Moodle: 'S a little.
Eric from Moodle: I don't know.
Eric from Moodle: I like to say camouflage.
Eric from Moodle: But simpler, straightforward instructions and feedback
Eric from Moodle: is going to be important.
Eric from Moodle: OK. And always review your instructions with
Eric from Moodle: empathy for the participant.
Eric from Moodle: What am I trying to say? Sometimes when we design stuff and we
Eric from Moodle: design instructions, we know what we're talking about.
Eric from Moodle: We know exactly the what the rest of the content is,
Eric from Moodle: and we already have some understanding, deep understanding of what we are
Eric from Moodle: designing.
Eric from Moodle: But our learners don't.
Eric from Moodle: It might be their first approach to the topic, so we really want to.
Eric from Moodle: How do you say, like simplify the content?
Eric from Moodle: I know you.
Eric from Moodle: We have.
Eric from Moodle: We need to teach them some technical language.
Eric from Moodle: But let's let's do that.
Eric from Moodle: In in phases. OK, let's start with a really ordinary
Eric from Moodle: language, and as they learn this little different
Eric from Moodle: concepts, we can start using using them on our
Eric from Moodle: course and on our content.
Eric from Moodle: Does that make sense for you all?
Eric from Moodle: Yeah. OK.
Eric from Moodle: So course structure and navigation. Have you ever been into a Moodle course
Eric from Moodle: and you see the, you know, the the screen, the initial screen and then there's a lot
Eric from Moodle: of content in there?
Eric from Moodle: There's, like so much.
Eric from Moodle: It's so tall that you have to scroll over all of a lot of different content and it
Eric from Moodle: kind of gets a little convoluted to say somethings like you're going to the
Eric from Moodle: course and you have to pass 300 videos or like maybe 16 videos that are right there.
Eric from Moodle: And that that's something that we want to avoid. OK,
Eric from Moodle: so your course should be easy to understand and navigate.
Eric from Moodle: We have to think about what the user or the learner experience is.
Eric from Moodle: That's what I mean with empathy. If I am new,
Eric from Moodle: if I didn't design this course, what do I see first?
Eric from Moodle: How do I know what to click?
Eric from Moodle: What is the order of my course?
Eric from Moodle: What is the overall dynamic of my course and that is going to help us build a
Eric from Moodle: better course?
Eric from Moodle: It's going to be more accessible and it's going to be especially helpful for people
Eric from Moodle: that has with dyslexia, OK?
Eric from Moodle: So giving each topic its own title.
Eric from Moodle: Right. You see how on a model side you have this
Eric from Moodle: topics and they say no section and no section and no section and no section.
Eric from Moodle: Sometimes we tend to just leave that as a no section because that's the default,
Eric from Moodle: but it is important to have that in mind and.
Eric from Moodle: Chunk our course.
Eric from Moodle: You know you always activate the edit mode and change this to whatever it needs
Eric from Moodle: to be.
Eric from Moodle: OK, the way you're gonna chunk your course is
Eric from Moodle: going to depend on your course.
Eric from Moodle: Sometimes it's units, sometimes it's going to be weeks,
Eric from Moodle: sometimes it's just going to be topics and the topic itself will be good enough.
Eric from Moodle: Does that make sense?
Eric from Moodle: Yeah. So, so anything that is is important.
Eric from Moodle: Maybe I'll go for, I don't know.
Eric from Moodle: Educational.
Eric from Moodle: Psychology.
Eric from Moodle: So now that that we're here, you can see in this.
Eric from Moodle: Screen that.
Eric from Moodle: Almost everything is uppercase and lowercase, right?
Eric from Moodle: That's also part of accessibility.
Eric from Moodle: We wanna avoid having all caps. OK, so doing something like that.
Eric from Moodle: Which is super common.
Eric from Moodle: We we prefer this over this because of the way the letters are shaped.
Eric from Moodle: This is easier to I'm gonna make it a little bigger.
Eric from Moodle: This is easier to read for someone that had that might have low vision or that
Eric from Moodle: might have a visual condition than this.
Eric from Moodle: Why? Because you see how this has, like UPS, UPS,
Eric from Moodle: UPS and then downs like unders.
Eric from Moodle: That is a clue.
Eric from Moodle: That's a visual clue of what? Later.
Eric from Moodle: Like it?
Eric from Moodle: Tell you tells you what.
Eric from Moodle: Later, we're talking about what is that?
Eric from Moodle: Later, we know GS have like something like goes
Eric from Moodle: underneath, right? And when it comes to uppercase,
Eric from Moodle: they're all the same size.
Eric from Moodle: Right and.
Eric from Moodle: They they're heavier.
Eric from Moodle: They they seem heavier.
Eric from Moodle: Does that make sense?
Eric from Moodle: I know we want to make it.
Eric from Moodle: It's more important.
Eric from Moodle: That's why I'm putting it in Upper case.
Eric from Moodle: Let's leave that.
Eric from Moodle: To our UI, this already has a style that's that's a.
Eric from Moodle: That's a default style, and that is what's going to give all the
Eric from Moodle: information hierarchy to your course.
Eric from Moodle: We're good there.
Eric from Moodle: Yeah, OK. So prefer always prefer upper and lower
Eric from Moodle: case.
Eric from Moodle: Then all upper case OK.
Eric from Moodle: So having those.
Eric from Moodle: Those.
Eric from Moodle: Topics always edited in you know with the right wording is is an important part.
Eric from Moodle: As you can see this part right here looks more like it belongs to the course and to
Eric from Moodle: the UI because everything else is uppercase and lowercase.
Eric from Moodle: OK.
Eric from Moodle: We want to kind of make it look it's not.
Eric from Moodle: It's not only be more going to be more accessible,
Eric from Moodle: it's going to be more beautiful.
Eric from Moodle: If I will right, if you will. OK. So use activities and resources to keep
Eric from Moodle: the main course page clear.
Eric from Moodle: This is the the course main page OK.
Eric from Moodle: And sometimes I'm gonna go ahead and copy this.
Eric from Moodle: This is just, you know, Lauren Epson.
Eric from Moodle: We want to have a description of something in here and what we usually or
Eric from Moodle: like some people do is we go here.
Eric from Moodle: And we go edit the settings and paste in there.
Eric from Moodle: I'm actually gonna.
Eric from Moodle: Right. And then save those changes.
Eric from Moodle: And when we go here, we see this. You see, there's a lot of content.
Eric from Moodle: It's really difficult to read and if we do that in several sections,
Eric from Moodle: it's just gonna be scrolling forever and the user and it just gets in the way.
Eric from Moodle: How many times does the user need this content?
Eric from Moodle: Probably won.
Eric from Moodle: Maybe two times.
Eric from Moodle: So why would we have them look at it every time they go into a course?
Eric from Moodle: So let's switch that and let's let's try to clean this up.
Eric from Moodle: We still have one that content what we we can just edit this you know delete that
Eric from Moodle: from there.
Eric from Moodle: And we can add an activity or resource and have a page that you should have a
Eric from Moodle: page right here.
Eric from Moodle: And maybe this is the course.
Eric from Moodle: Description.
Eric from Moodle: And then I'm going to paste my content right here.
Eric from Moodle: And since I'm here, I'm just going to leave it there.
Eric from Moodle: We're going to come back to this.
Eric from Moodle: I can save that and return to my course and look how beautiful it looks.
Eric from Moodle: You see the difference?
Eric from Moodle: There is no scrolling.
Eric from Moodle: There's nothing in there.
Eric from Moodle: And if they want to see this, they can just click in there and they
Eric from Moodle: will see that content in there.
Eric from Moodle: OK.
Eric from Moodle: So having that organized is kind of like kind of like having your closet right?
Eric from Moodle: Wardrobe and having different drawers. And then you're putting clothes into
Eric from Moodle: those drawers and you close everything and it looks flush.
Eric from Moodle: And now you you have Peace of Mind, right?
Eric from Moodle: So that's kind of what we want to do.
Eric from Moodle: We're going to have those we're going to have those little drawers so people can
Eric from Moodle: go in them and add content and like consume the content in there, OK.
Eric from Moodle: That that this is not only for text, also for videos.
Eric from Moodle: If you have any video, try not to put it in here in the main
Eric from Moodle: page of the course, because that's also going to be taxing.
Eric from Moodle: Bandwidth. OK. And people that see that in a phone that
Eric from Moodle: they that might be a not so good for them as well. OK.
Eric from Moodle: So having all that in mind is important, OK.
Eric from Moodle: So not not try not to put a lot of content in the main page of the course.
Eric from Moodle: Divide heavy content into pages or book chapters.
Eric from Moodle: So I used a page right here and everything that I put in here is going to
Eric from Moodle: be shown in this page.
Eric from Moodle: But if you have a lot of content, you can just chunk it and use a book,
Eric from Moodle: right?
Eric from Moodle: Everybody knows what what a book is. In Moodle we do right kind of.
Reichert, Heather - FS, OR: You know I don't.
Reichert, Heather - FS, OR: I don't think many of our editors use the book, so it might be helpful to.
Eric from Moodle: Perfect. OK, perfect.
Reichert, Heather - FS, OR: Show an example.
Eric from Moodle: So let's imagine we have a lot of content, right?
Eric from Moodle: Right now we have a title and a subtitle right here.
Eric from Moodle: Let's imagine we have a bunch of different contents right here.
Eric from Moodle: This is a page and it will show everything in there,
Eric from Moodle: but we can add an activity or resource and we can go for the book.
Eric from Moodle: It's right here.
Eric from Moodle: It kinda looks like an open book, that's why it's called a book.
Eric from Moodle: And you can have a name.
Eric from Moodle: I'm gonna call it book.
Eric from Moodle: Example.
Eric from Moodle: I am going to leave this as is.
Eric from Moodle: I'm not going to change anything.
Eric from Moodle: We don't need to do that right now.
Eric from Moodle: Save and display and then I'm going to have content.
Eric from Moodle: So what we did is imagine we created the book cover just with that name that we
Eric from Moodle: put in there, and now we're going to create the content.
Eric from Moodle: I'm going to go for chapter one maybe.
Eric from Moodle: And I'm going to put some content in here.
Eric from Moodle: And I'm gonna say those changes.
Eric from Moodle: You see how I have the chapter one and I have a title and some content.
Eric from Moodle: Now I can go to the table of contents and click on this plus button and I can go
Eric from Moodle: for chapter 2.
Eric from Moodle: If I want right, I'm put whatever I need to put.
Eric from Moodle: And say those changes and you see I have my chapter one and my chapter 2.
Eric from Moodle: Everything is contained there.
Eric from Moodle: You have pages.
Eric from Moodle: It's like if you have a series of pages that need to go together,
Eric from Moodle: you just do a book, right?
Eric from Moodle: And when you go back to your course, you have one book example and people can
Eric from Moodle: go in there and navigate those chapters. And there's some buttons right here that
Eric from Moodle: also help navigate in between those chapters.
Eric from Moodle: So you can have as many.
Eric from Moodle: Chapters as you want or as many pages as you want here,
Eric from Moodle: and this is really helpful when you have like you know about the course and then
Eric from Moodle: you have the structure, the structure, the instructor is what the goals are.
Eric from Moodle: What do you need to bring and all of those things are are super helpful there.
Eric from Moodle: A good thing about books is that you can actually export the books and make them
Eric from Moodle: into into.
Eric from Moodle: Bowl.
Eric from Moodle: PDF or stuff like that.
Eric from Moodle: OK.
Eric from Moodle: That's part of what what we could do.
Eric from Moodle: Just add images that make each section easy to spot if if needed and use images
Eric from Moodle: for navigating when possible as you can.
Eric from Moodle: You saw those buttons that were these buttons that are actual.
Eric from Moodle: Images there little arrow.
Eric from Moodle: That's a good thing.
Eric from Moodle: That's native to model.
Eric from Moodle: You don't need to do anything about that, but you know.
Eric from Moodle: He can be also turned into a button, but it's better to have images because
Eric from Moodle: everyone can see the images or like more people.
Eric from Moodle: It's better than having a little text right there that says next or or anything
Eric from Moodle: like that, OK.
Eric from Moodle: Simplifying content you know identify or audience and save your message to them.
Eric from Moodle: Who are you teaching?
Eric from Moodle: Let's try to do it.
Eric from Moodle: Use bullet points when needed.
Eric from Moodle: I want to speed it up a little bit.
Eric from Moodle: Keep language clear and easy.
Eric from Moodle: We talked about this and replaced complex words with simple ones.
Eric from Moodle: Find a balanced tone.
Eric from Moodle: OK.
Eric from Moodle: Remember, in a course it's not. You don't have to think of what else
Eric from Moodle: you're going to put in your course.
Eric from Moodle: We're going to think about it the other way.
Eric from Moodle: What cannot be taken away, and that's what we we keep in there, OK?
Eric from Moodle: Good. Sorry about that.
Eric from Moodle: Make sure your content has enough contrast.
Eric from Moodle: This is super important.
Eric from Moodle: Moodle will do it usually by itself.
Eric from Moodle: You have seen that if you go into anywhere in your Moodle site you will
Eric from Moodle: have this editor, right?
Eric from Moodle: And this editor right here, unless unless it has been modified
Eric from Moodle: doesn't give you the possibility to change the color of the.
Eric from Moodle: Want that's on purpose.
Eric from Moodle: That's on purpose because you know we want,
Eric from Moodle: we want to make sure you have contrast.
Eric from Moodle: There is ways to have different colors, but just be aware that you need to have
Eric from Moodle: enough contrast. OK, there is.
Eric from Moodle: This checker.
Eric from Moodle: That you can put.
Eric from Moodle: I'm just going to copy this.
Eric from Moodle: Copy that link and I'm going to put it in the chat in case you have access to that.
Eric from Moodle: Sorry about that.
Eric from Moodle: I gave you a lot of different things.
Eric from Moodle: That's the contact that text that I was using for some reason I'm not being able
Eric from Moodle: to.
Eric from Moodle: Sorry about that.
Eric from Moodle: There we go.
Eric from Moodle: This is the real one.
Eric from Moodle: So that website allows you to put the hex colors.
Eric from Moodle: The Hex code for colors and it will tell you whether it passes the the contrast
Eric from Moodle: check right.
Eric from Moodle: Yeah. OK.
Eric from Moodle: So I'm not going to go over what a hex code is. I'm guessing you know.
Eric from Moodle: And if you don't, you can go in there and it will tell you
Eric from Moodle: what a hex code is.
Eric from Moodle: But having that contrast is really important not only for things that are on
Eric from Moodle: your Moodle side, but also for for other kind of content
Eric from Moodle: that you might have.
Eric from Moodle: On your course, usually like PDFs and like pictures or
Eric from Moodle: any picture that has some text on it which is not super accessible.
Eric from Moodle: But commonly used.
Eric from Moodle: OK, always using descriptive links.
Eric from Moodle: Not never, never, never, never letting the whole link like that,
Eric from Moodle: you know, saying like HTTP.
Eric from Moodle: You know, slash, slash or whatever WWW. If you do that on your Moodle site and
Eric from Moodle: somebody is using a a screen reader.
Eric from Moodle: The screen reader is gonna read every single little.
Eric from Moodle: Character on that URL.
Eric from Moodle: And that's not cool.
Eric from Moodle: That's not great.
Eric from Moodle: That's not a great idea.
Eric from Moodle: So what we do is we we kinda create hyperlinks.
Eric from Moodle: How do we do that on your model side? OK.
Eric from Moodle: So let's imagine we wanna go forth.
Eric from Moodle: Read my article.
Eric from Moodle: Or something like that, right?
Eric from Moodle: So what we're going to do is we can select that whole little phrase and then
Eric from Moodle: we can click on this button right here that has a link that's kind of like a
Eric from Moodle: chain.
Eric from Moodle: And then we're gonna put the URL off wherever you wanna have people go, right?
Eric from Moodle: Your URL.
Eric from Moodle: I wanna use Google right now.
Eric from Moodle: And there we go.
Eric from Moodle: You can see this thing has a little thing right here that says open in a new window.
Eric from Moodle: So the accessible way to do this is have it not open in a new window.
Eric from Moodle: We want to open it in the same window because that's what it's going that's
Eric from Moodle: going to be indicated to someone that's using a screen reader.
Eric from Moodle: If we wanted to open in a new.
Eric from Moodle: Window we can do that.
Eric from Moodle: But we have to make sure that we are saying.
Eric from Moodle: That in the text that we're typing. OK, so I'm gonna do that,
Eric from Moodle: and I'm gonna create that link.
Eric from Moodle: It turned blue. It looks like a little hyperlink and I'm
Eric from Moodle: just gonna say this.
Eric from Moodle: So we can see what it looks like, right?
Eric from Moodle: It's right there.
Eric from Moodle: I click it, it'll go to Google, right?
Eric from Moodle: We want that.
Eric from Moodle: And if we wanna do?
Eric from Moodle: This we can do opens.
Eric from Moodle: In a new window.
Eric from Moodle: We can also do that and then you know.
Eric from Moodle: Have it opening on the window.
Eric from Moodle: Update that link, save and display.
Eric from Moodle: Now when I click it, it's going to open in a new window.
Eric from Moodle: Make sense?
Reichert, Heather - FS, OR: And and the the reason for opening a new in a new window is because folks using
Reichert, Heather - FS, OR: screen readers will use the back button to navigate back.
Eric from Moodle: Exactly if it.
Reichert, Heather - FS, OR: And they might get might get lose their lose the window. Otherwise, yeah.
Eric from Moodle: Exactly, it might be.
Eric from Moodle: They might get lost.
Eric from Moodle: And there's another thing like each user can decide whether when they open a new
Eric from Moodle: window, which one is the active one.
Eric from Moodle: The one that's open on the OR the one that they are in,
Eric from Moodle: but that is not read by the screen reader.
Eric from Moodle: So, you know, kind of have to be aware of that. OK,
Eric from Moodle: good.
Eric from Moodle: So that's the way we do links. Try to be descriptive with the links so
Eric from Moodle: people know what it is before they open it and if it opens in a new window just
Eric from Moodle: say that it opens in a new window. OK, try to avoid the click here. Click here.
Eric from Moodle: Click here.
Eric from Moodle: That happens a lot like click here to see the article like that click here it's
Eric from Moodle: it's very.
Eric from Moodle: It's very like 2000s like or like 90s, like the beginning of the Internet,
Eric from Moodle: when you all of a sudden open like.
Eric from Moodle: A website I had a bunch of.
Eric from Moodle: Ads. And he's like, click here and here.
Eric from Moodle: Here's like maybe not.
Eric from Moodle: Maybe I want click there and OK text format.
Eric from Moodle: Direct attention to the key sections of the content.
Eric from Moodle: Choose bold text to highlight area ideas.
Eric from Moodle: So sometimes we have the.
Eric from Moodle: Practice. Let me get some content here. OK. Sorry.
Eric from Moodle: We like to stress some content.
Eric from Moodle: Sorry about that.
Eric from Moodle: One second, please.
Eric from Moodle: My Internet is not being like super nice to me. Am I frozen with you guys? No. OK.
Eric from Moodle: Sorry about that.
Eric from Moodle: And we're back.
Eric from Moodle: OK.
Eric from Moodle: Here we go.
Eric from Moodle: OK.
Eric from Moodle: So sometimes we like to have some content.
Eric from Moodle: There we go and stress some ideas, right?
Eric from Moodle: So the way we wanna edit this is we want to use these tools.
Eric from Moodle: So you can see this is a title, right?
Eric from Moodle: So we need to mark it as a title.
Eric from Moodle: You can see that if you double click on it, you have the possibility to bold it.
Eric from Moodle: Make it Italic an H3H4H5H6.
Eric from Moodle: That's that H stands for heading and this is what headings.
Eric from Moodle: OK.
Eric from Moodle: So if I go to H3, you see how everything became like huge.
Eric from Moodle: That is because I copied and pasted from from a Word document.
Eric from Moodle: So just have in mind that when you are tasting from from word,
Eric from Moodle: some code is going to come in here like I call it trashcode because it's really
Eric from Moodle: trash is.
Eric from Moodle: Your, your your site right.
Eric from Moodle: So I'm going to select everything and you have the ability to paste.
Eric from Moodle: Without format, depending on your computer,
Eric from Moodle: you can go common option shift and V or you know right click and paste without
Eric from Moodle: format.
Eric from Moodle: Or edit and paste and match style right. You can see that right there if we see.
Eric from Moodle: A look at the code you can see it's only one paragraph.
Eric from Moodle: This T it means it's a paragraph. So we're gonna chunk it.
Eric from Moodle: We're gonna have an enter right there.
Eric from Moodle: And I'm going to have an enter right there and I'm going to have an enter
Eric from Moodle: right there. Is this making any sense now?
Eric from Moodle: This is actually for Moodle.
Eric from Moodle: This is a paragraph.
Eric from Moodle: And this is a title so I can go H3 right? And if this is a subtitle I can go this
Eric from Moodle: with H4. What we want to have here is we want to
Eric from Moodle: make sure we have the correct hierarchy of information.
Eric from Moodle: So if this is a subtitle, this is an 8 four.
Eric from Moodle: And if this belongs to to another to a specific topic.
Eric from Moodle: It has to go, you know, after an age 3, we don't want to.
Eric from Moodle: We don't want to skip one of the H of the headings.
Eric from Moodle: OK.
Eric from Moodle: So again, this subtitle. That's why it's on H3 and this is a
Eric from Moodle: subtitle that belongs to that title and this is as an H4.
Eric from Moodle: If we had some other thing that belongs inside subtitle like a sub subtitle.
Eric from Moodle: We can also click on it, select the whole thing and then make it
Eric from Moodle: an age file. OK, save on display.
Eric from Moodle: This is giving you a hierarchy based on you know visual,
Eric from Moodle: but also in code and if you have it in the code that means the screen reader is
Eric from Moodle: going to be able to have that hierarchy for your user.
Eric from Moodle: OK screen readers have the ability to read only the.
Eric from Moodle: Let's say the.
Eric from Moodle: Idols that are like the thing that are, I'm sorry,
Eric from Moodle: the thing that is actually marked as a title as an H3.
Eric from Moodle: So it will read like an index.
Eric from Moodle: All the H trees and then the user can select which one of those H trees is
Eric from Moodle: going for OK, and once they're in one of those H trees,
Eric from Moodle: it's going to start reading all the H fours. OK. Does that make sense?
Eric from Moodle: So we want to keep that that hierarchy.
Eric from Moodle: And again, this is like like your like your classic.
Eric from Moodle: You want that little drawer and inside, you know,
Eric from Moodle: maybe you have a drawer for underwear and then you know you have, like,
Eric from Moodle: socks and then you have another kind of socks and then you have some boxer shorts.
Eric from Moodle: I don't know, but it all belongs to the, you know, same family to say something.
Eric from Moodle: So that's what we want to achieve when it comes to editing stuff in here,
Eric from Moodle: we don't have to make it like bold because the the, the heading style,
Eric from Moodle: it's going to make it bold.
Eric from Moodle: As well, if we want to stress something inside,
Eric from Moodle: I'm so sorry.
Eric from Moodle: I don't know.
Eric from Moodle: My Internet is not super being super helpful right now,
Eric from Moodle: so I want to show you I have another backup right here.
Eric from Moodle: If we need to.
Eric from Moodle: To stress something we can bold it right?
Eric from Moodle: We can bold something that's in a paragraph, just hitting that B button.
Eric from Moodle: Sorry again.
Eric from Moodle: And we're going to try to not use italics unless it's super needed.
Eric from Moodle: Usually in education, Italian italics are used for words that
Eric from Moodle: are written in a different language.
Eric from Moodle: Right. So they recognize as a different language,
Eric from Moodle: they're a little harder to read.
Eric from Moodle: So that's that's an important thing to think about, OK,
Eric from Moodle: trying to get my stuff back.
Eric from Moodle: And OK.
Eric from Moodle: So when it comes to.
Eric from Moodle: Justification. We have the alignment.
Eric from Moodle: You know, we have for some reason people like to
Eric from Moodle: have justification like, you know, alignment in both sides.
Eric from Moodle: That is not the best for accessibility. What we want to do is have you our
Eric from Moodle: content always aligned to the left or also like they call it flag style because
Eric from Moodle: it kind of looks like flag is just like going like that.
Eric from Moodle: So that's going to break all your your the the ending of your lines.
Eric from Moodle: And that makes your.
Eric from Moodle: Text easier to read.
Eric from Moodle: Have you ever read a book you know and you're reading it and all of a sudden you
Eric from Moodle: finish the line and then you go back to the same line to try to read it from the
Eric from Moodle: beginning?
Eric from Moodle: Well, that's because it was all justified from
Eric from Moodle: both sides.
Eric from Moodle: That removes the visual cues of what a line is,
Eric from Moodle: which the difference between lines and also changes the spacing between.
Eric from Moodle: Letters and between words.
Eric from Moodle: So that messes with our head and it's just like not a great idea to have.
Eric from Moodle: So just just keep it on the left and and that's also one of the reasons why your
Eric from Moodle: Moodle site doesn't have a justify a default justify.
Eric from Moodle: Button you only have center left and right.
Eric from Moodle: I would advise this is not an accessibility thing.
Eric from Moodle: This is my idea style.
Eric from Moodle: Kind of thing. Avoid. I would suggest to avoid centering.
Eric from Moodle: Information.
Eric from Moodle: Right, like, like, censored all kinds like not the best way
Eric from Moodle: to go.
Eric from Moodle: It's isolated and it just doesn't look right to me.
Eric from Moodle: OK, so steer clear of justified alignment if
Eric from Moodle: copying into Moodle, paste in plain and edit inside Moodle.
Eric from Moodle: If you can actually just retype it if it's not a lot of content,
Eric from Moodle: it's way better to do it from model OK.
Eric from Moodle: Let me see if I have my site back again.
Eric from Moodle: Can't go.
Eric from Moodle: Sorry about that again.
Eric from Moodle: I am going to switch my connection if that's OK would you give me two minutes?
Eric from Moodle: Thank you.
Reichert, Heather - FS, OR: Yep, no problem.
Eric from Moodle: You can still hear me, right?
Eric from Moodle: Can you hear me?
Reichert, Heather - FS, OR: Hear you.
Eric from Moodle: OK.
Reichert, Heather - FS, OR: We have your PowerPoint.
Eric from Moodle: Can you still see my screen?
Reichert, Heather - FS, OR: Yep, we have your your slides.
Eric from Moodle: Perfect. So I think I am partially back.
Eric from Moodle: One second, please.
Eric from Moodle: OK.
Eric from Moodle: So always paste with no with no.
Eric from Moodle: Format If that's possible.
Eric from Moodle: That's gonna give you a little bit more of.
Eric from Moodle: It's gonna bring less garbage to say something. OK? As you can see,
Eric from Moodle: you don't have a justify alignment right here.
Eric from Moodle: So you have left, center and right. OK, OK.
Eric from Moodle: We went over all this. Don't under.
Eric from Moodle: To click on it.
Eric from Moodle: Do you?
Reichert, Heather - FS, OR: We lost you for just a second.
Eric from Moodle: Oh, I'm sorry.
Reichert, Heather - FS, OR: No worries.
Eric from Moodle: I was.
Eric from Moodle: I was saying that we should avoid underlining to to stress stuff,
Eric from Moodle: because if you underline stuff.
Eric from Moodle: It kind of looks like a link and people are going to try to click on it and then
Eric from Moodle: there's no difference between some content that you underline and bolded in
Eric from Moodle: a natural link.
Eric from Moodle: So some things that are clickable to people might think they're not in the
Eric from Moodle: opposite way as well.
Eric from Moodle: So we want to avoid that, OK.
Eric from Moodle: OK.
Eric from Moodle: And typography. I know you might not have an opportunity
Eric from Moodle: to change that in your on your site, but always try to have a San serif.
Eric from Moodle: Which is the server's, are the little like like endings on the
Eric from Moodle: on the sides of the on the, like the edges of the letters and that
Eric from Moodle: makes readability a little lower.
Eric from Moodle: So we want, we want to do something that doesn't have
Eric from Moodle: any serifs. That's why this is called sans serifs.
Eric from Moodle: This is like without I think like French or something like that.
Eric from Moodle: And the serif. So we want to send serif.
Eric from Moodle: Typography or family type typeface family.
Eric from Moodle: If you have any content that's not immobile, you can.
Eric from Moodle: You can do that and another thing that's important is do not depend on caller.
Eric from Moodle: Some people that are color blind might have a problem if you if you refer to
Eric from Moodle: something only by one specific.
Eric from Moodle: Property when it comes to, you know, the red, the red side, it's like, oh man,
Eric from Moodle: I can't see red.
Eric from Moodle: I don't know what you're talking about.
Eric from Moodle: I can't see green or like I don't see the difference or I see a different color.
Eric from Moodle: So if you have any kind of schematics that are color dependent,
Eric from Moodle: we recommend to have some kind of.
Eric from Moodle: Texture like this one. You can see there's some texture in here
Eric from Moodle: in this little map.
Eric from Moodle: Right. You can see their their lines are
Eric from Moodle: different.
Eric from Moodle: They're not based on color. They're based on a texture or like a like
Eric from Moodle: a pattern right there.
Eric from Moodle: You can do that.
Eric from Moodle: And you can combine that with color so it can be both of of the things.
Eric from Moodle: So it looks beautiful, but it all it's also.
Eric from Moodle: Accessible.
Eric from Moodle: OK. Am I making sense so far?
Eric from Moodle: I hope.
Eric from Moodle: I hope I am OK cool.
Eric from Moodle: And youth hairing styles.
Eric from Moodle: This is the one of the most important things.
Eric from Moodle: Use those hairy styles.
Eric from Moodle: That's what they're for.
Eric from Moodle: And umm.
Eric from Moodle: Use them to create your text.
Eric from Moodle: Organize your your hierarchy of information that way.
Eric from Moodle: The theme on your Moodle site is going to is going to be determining what the size
Eric from Moodle: of an H3 is.
Eric from Moodle: Right. Or what the size of an H4 is, just make sure you use those,
Eric from Moodle: and if you're not an admin or you, you don't have any control of what the H3
Eric from Moodle: looks like.
Eric from Moodle: So have that in mind.
Eric from Moodle: And another thing that's important is if you are going to have.
Eric from Moodle: Lists like you know, title one.
Eric from Moodle: Title 2.
Eric from Moodle: Title 3.
Eric from Moodle: Like bullet points.
Eric from Moodle: Make them actual bullet points. So.
Eric from Moodle: This.
Eric from Moodle: Me again.
Eric from Moodle: Tell me you didn't.
Reichert, Heather - FS, OR: We lost you for just a moment, like right after you said use actual
Reichert, Heather - FS, OR: bullets. So we didn't.
Reichert, Heather - FS, OR: We didn't miss much, yeah.
Eric from Moodle: OK, so use actual bullets that that means you
Eric from Moodle: select.
Eric from Moodle: Your content and then you click on this thing that said bullet list or numbered
Eric from Moodle: list. If you're having bullets to do that, and if you're having numbers to that,
Eric from Moodle: I would recommend always avoiding doing this. I'm sorry.
Eric from Moodle: 1.
Eric from Moodle: This thing.
Eric from Moodle: Because sometimes mcmudle will do it automatically,
Eric from Moodle: but sometimes he would just be a paragraph that's not a.
Eric from Moodle: A bullet list or a numbered list make sense.
Eric from Moodle: So use this.
Eric from Moodle: This is the this is your friend.
Eric from Moodle: This is what we want to do and have in mind that it's not only what it looks
Eric from Moodle: like, it's what the actual source code is
Eric from Moodle: looking or like, how it's being organized. Because this is what the screen reader
Eric from Moodle: reads.
Eric from Moodle: Another important thing, and I'm almost done with this, is images.
Eric from Moodle: Images will always need to have.
Eric from Moodle: Alt text. Somebody that can't see the image should
Eric from Moodle: be able to have a description of the image embedded into it.
Eric from Moodle: How do we do that?
Eric from Moodle: I'm going to delete all of these things so we have some space in here.
Eric from Moodle: Imagine you have an image.
Eric from Moodle: I have one right here.
Eric from Moodle: I'm just going to drag it drag and drop it.
Eric from Moodle: You can see it right there, right?
Eric from Moodle: You can see it, but people that are using a screen reader
Eric from Moodle: need to have some odd text on it. So what?
Eric from Moodle: We're going to do is we can click on it and then click on this thing that says
Eric from Moodle: image.
Eric from Moodle: And.
Eric from Moodle: Remove this thing that says this image is decorative only and we have to describe
Eric from Moodle: that image.
Eric from Moodle: Orange cat chasing.
Eric from Moodle: A ball.
Eric from Moodle: We have to design that to to be descriptive, simple and to the point.
Eric from Moodle: What is the the point of that image? That's what we want to convey.
Eric from Moodle: We don't have to be overly like descriptive. Like what's the?
Eric from Moodle: What's the ball made out of or like, what the like ground looks like unless
Eric from Moodle: it's important or or used for the actual consumption of the of the content,
Eric from Moodle: you know.
Eric from Moodle: What is important? What is?
Eric from Moodle: What is the key point that users need to get from that image?
Eric from Moodle: Once you have that, you say that.
Eric from Moodle: And we're good to go, OK.
Eric from Moodle: Another thing important that's important is.
Eric from Moodle: If you click on on tools and then you go to the accessibility checker model is
Eric from Moodle: going to check your content and it's going to ask you.
Eric from Moodle: It's going to tell you whether you have a problem or not.
Eric from Moodle: It's not going to fix it for you, but it might say you have a lot of
Eric from Moodle: content with no headings.
Eric from Moodle: You have images with no out text, right?
Eric from Moodle: So that's an important thing.
Eric from Moodle: It's it's help.
Eric from Moodle: It's not 100%.
Eric from Moodle: You know it won't get 100% of your.
Eric from Moodle: Content or what's needed.
Eric from Moodle: But it is something it helps a little bit.
Eric from Moodle: This is.
Eric from Moodle: Key use your all text. Don't leave any images without and
Eric from Moodle: without them without it, unless they are actually decorated.
Eric from Moodle: You know it has no function.
Eric from Moodle: It's just a decoration image and then we can just mark it as decorative and we
Eric from Moodle: would be good to go, right, same and display that near name.
Eric from Moodle: OK.
Eric from Moodle: Images I'll text include only helpful information, not any anything else,
Eric from Moodle: and do not add image of photo of screenshot off because the screen reader
Eric from Moodle: will say image off and then will read your text so it would.
Eric from Moodle: It's not necessary.
Eric from Moodle: It's already.
Eric from Moodle: It will really be announced and when it comes to audio and video use video
Eric from Moodle: players that they can have automatic subtitles like CC.
Eric from Moodle: If you have something in YouTube, YouTube.
Eric from Moodle: Really good word.
Eric from Moodle: Job on on closed captions.
Eric from Moodle: Even translated closed captions. If your video have subtitles,
Eric from Moodle: that's even better. And if you're having a video,
Eric from Moodle: just share a text transcript of the video when possible, right?
Eric from Moodle: You can just have a little a little blurb right there giving giving the transcript
Eric from Moodle: and.
Eric from Moodle: Use a video player that allows adjusting playback speed.
Eric from Moodle: I I found myself doing that a lot.
Eric from Moodle: I need 2X.
Eric from Moodle: Or 1 1/2 X 'cause. Sometimes it's really slow and you're
Eric from Moodle: like, Oh my God, I'm I nobody got time for that.
Eric from Moodle: So you just go and and speed it up, right?
Eric from Moodle: If you are giving any PDS do not print the PDF and save it.
Eric from Moodle: Just save the save US and then PDF.
Eric from Moodle: Sometimes we go print and then save it and we don't want that.
Eric from Moodle: How do you know you have a better PDF is that you can select the text on the PDF.
Eric from Moodle: It's not an image of text, it's just text itself.
Eric from Moodle: And check for accessibility tools on the program that you're using.
Eric from Moodle: Word has one.
Eric from Moodle: PowerPoint has one.
Eric from Moodle: And like different others have also accessibility checkers and they will let
Eric from Moodle: you know what's happening and how you can improve.
Eric from Moodle: And I showed you the accessibility checker and there's an accessibility blog
Eric from Moodle: that's a plug in.
Eric from Moodle: It's optional.
Eric from Moodle: That can also be on your side and that allows people or users to change the
Eric from Moodle: background color, the font face the the distance between
Eric from Moodle: the letters and the font size, and all of those things that that's also.
Eric from Moodle: Something that can be installed.
Eric from Moodle: Depending on your model version and thank you very much if you need more
Reichert, Heather - FS, OR: Yeah.
Eric from Moodle: information. Yeah, go ahead.
Reichert, Heather - FS, OR: I was just going to say one one word on that.
Reichert, Heather - FS, OR: I think the current accessibility lock that we have on our site.
Reichert, Heather - FS, OR: May be phased out as part of part of Fedramp.
Eric from Moodle: Oh, I see.
Reichert, Heather - FS, OR: So just a APSA for for everyone, but there are great accessibility tools
Reichert, Heather - FS, OR: within the text editor.
Eric from Moodle: There are also a couple of courses that if you're interested in this,
Eric from Moodle: you can do for free introduction to accessibility and accessible teaching
Eric from Moodle: basics.
Eric from Moodle: This is free.
Eric from Moodle: You have to use Registered Mobile Academy and and you go through them and they're
Eric from Moodle: not super long, but they're super super helpful.
Eric from Moodle: Thank you very much.
Eric from Moodle: I will.
Eric from Moodle: I can give you these slides if I'm not mistaken, Benjamin, I can.
Eric from Moodle: We can make that happen.
Reichert, Heather - FS, OR: Perfect. Yeah. Eric, if you want to share the slides with me,
Reichert, Heather - FS, OR: I'll post them in our help center along with the the video.
Reichert, Heather - FS, OR: And I can also share them to this meeting.
Eric from Moodle: Perfect if if you have any questions, there's a lot more when it comes to
Reichert, Heather - FS, OR: Yeah.
Eric from Moodle: accessibility, but we can't pack it in in one hour.
Eric from Moodle: So.
Eric from Moodle: Anything helps if you know anything that you do to make your course accessible.
Eric from Moodle: It's helped a little bit.
Eric from Moodle: It's it's a process.
Eric from Moodle: It's not a thing of like zeros or ones like.
Eric from Moodle: It's either accessible or not accessible.
Eric from Moodle: It is a path that we have to go through.
Eric from Moodle: And I think people appreciate it. And and I appreciate it as well as
Eric from Moodle: because I'm a little obsessive and I want the little drawers and like everything
Eric from Moodle: packed back up.
Eric from Moodle: So yeah, thank you very much.
Eric from Moodle: It was my pleasure.
Eric from Moodle: And I'll I'll get you the these slides no problem.
Eric from Moodle: And we'll stay in touch.
Reichert, Heather - FS, OR: Perfect. Thank you so much, Eric.
Eric from Moodle: Thank you.
Eric from Moodle: See you soon.
Reichert, Heather - FS, OR: Jason.
Eric from Moodle: Bye.