{"id":8681,"date":"2023-08-31T00:00:47","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T04:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/?p=8681"},"modified":"2023-08-31T10:35:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T14:35:56","slug":"say-hello-%f0%9f%91%8b-to-the-new-accessibility-filescan-moodle-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2023\/08\/31\/say-hello-%f0%9f%91%8b-to-the-new-accessibility-filescan-moodle-block\/","title":{"rendered":"Say Hello \ud83d\udc4b to the New Moodle Accessibility Filescan Block"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You may have noticed that the filescan block looks a bit different in your Moodle course this semester. Well, that&#8217;s because it is! This summer we&#8217;ve been hard at work rewriting the filescan block to harder, better, faster and stronger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Meet the Accessibility Filescan block<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/accessibility_filescan_block.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/accessibility_filescan_block.png\" alt=\"Accessibility Filescan Block\" class=\"wp-image-8682\" width=\"266\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/accessibility_filescan_block.png 311w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/accessibility_filescan_block-192x300.png 192w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/accessibility_filescan_block-38x60.png 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">The Moodle Accessibility Filescan block gathers up all of your course PDFs, and runs accessibility checks on each one. It will check each file for the presence of a language setting, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Optical_character_recognition\">OCR&#8217;d text<\/a>, title, and proper structure. All these attributes are required for a fully accessible PDF file.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find it in the &#8220;block drawer&#8221; on the right hand side of your Moodle course.  If the blocks are hidden, open them with the <strong>&lt;<\/strong> icon.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Details, Details, Details<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Along with the block comes the details view. Here, you can view specific details about how each of your course PDFs tested against our accessibility tests. You can even download the contents of the table to a CSV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"382\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/accessibility_filescan_table-1024x382.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/accessibility_filescan_table-1024x382.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/accessibility_filescan_table-300x112.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/accessibility_filescan_table-768x287.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/accessibility_filescan_table-161x60.png 161w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/accessibility_filescan_table.png 1066w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>The Accessibility Filescan block details table<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Taking Action<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If your course contains PDF files that are not accessible, see our <a href=\"https:\/\/kb.swarthmore.edu\/display\/MOODLE\/Accessibility+File+Scan\">Accessibility File Scan help page<\/a> for information on how to fix the files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have noticed that the filescan block looks a bit different in your Moodle course this semester. Well, that&#8217;s because it is! This summer we&#8217;ve been hard at work rewriting the filescan block to harder, better, faster and stronger. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2023\/08\/31\/say-hello-%f0%9f%91%8b-to-the-new-accessibility-filescan-moodle-block\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Say Hello \ud83d\udc4b to the New Moodle Accessibility Filescan Block<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":8408,"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":[216,90,499,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-8681","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-featured","12":"tag-filescan","13":"tag-moodle","15":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/moodlecover.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph2nPL-2g1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8681","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\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8681"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8704,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8681\/revisions\/8704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}