{"id":5504,"date":"2019-01-10T11:59:49","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T16:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/?p=5504"},"modified":"2019-01-09T10:07:46","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T15:07:46","slug":"moodle-accessibility-improvements-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2019\/01\/10\/moodle-accessibility-improvements-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Moodle Accessibility Improvements Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year ITS developed and implemented the File Scan block in Moodle to help identify inaccessible PDF files. This year, we are working on improvements to the block that will allow instructors to automatically fix PDF files that are not accessible.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re currently attending a Moodle event as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clamp-it.org\/\">Collaborative Liberal Arts Moodle Project<\/a> where we are sharing the code with other schools and getting feedback on how to best implement the improvements.\u00a0 Several other colleges have installed the File Scan block on their Moodle sites and are actively using it.\u00a0 We hope to have the improvements ready some time in the spring semester.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5505\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5505\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/filescan_fix_button.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5505 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/filescan_fix_button-1024x144.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of the beta version of the Moodle File Scan Fix Button\" width=\"720\" height=\"101\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/filescan_fix_button-1024x144.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/filescan_fix_button-300x42.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/filescan_fix_button-768x108.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/filescan_fix_button-270x38.png 270w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/filescan_fix_button.png 1772w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5505\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshot of the beta version of the Moodle File Scan Fix Button<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5506\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5506\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/fix_pdf.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5506\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/fix_pdf-1024x667.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of the beta version of the Moodle File Scan Fix PDF Dialog Box\" width=\"720\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/fix_pdf-1024x667.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/fix_pdf-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/fix_pdf-768x500.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/fix_pdf-92x60.png 92w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/fix_pdf.png 1060w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5506\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshot of the beta version of the Moodle File Scan Fix PDF Dialog Box<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year ITS developed and implemented the File Scan block in Moodle to help identify inaccessible PDF files. This year, we are working on improvements to the block that will allow instructors to automatically fix PDF files that are not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2019\/01\/10\/moodle-accessibility-improvements-coming\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Moodle Accessibility Improvements Coming<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":5507,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,71,80],"tags":[216,154,217],"class_list":{"0":"post-5504","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-academic-technology","8":"category-accessibility","9":"category-moodle","10":"tag-accessibility","11":"tag-moodle","12":"tag-pdf","14":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/fix_button.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph2nPL-1qM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5508,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5504\/revisions\/5508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}