Key Accessibility Tips: Multimedia This blog post is an extract from our GAAD webinar. Here is one of Gavin’s 7 tips for improving accessibility in your Moodle courses. N.B. Deliver via accessible media player! Always provide users with controls to stop, pause and replay media. Closed Captions (CC), Subtitles and… Read More »Key Accessibility Tips: Multimedia
Key Accessibility Tips: Images This blog post is an extract from our GAAD webinar. Here is one of Gavin’s 7 tips for improving accessibility in your Moodle courses. Visuals accelerate understanding, but make sure to check how accessible your content is while adding images. Firstly it is important to understand… Read More »Key Accessibility Tips: Images
Key Accessibility Tips: Headings This blog post is an extract from our GAAD webinar. Here is one of Gavin’s 7 tips for improving accessibility in your Moodle courses. Headings and subheadings distinguish and summarise the main points which can greatly impact the effectiveness of your content. Think of headings as… Read More »Key Accessibility Tips: Headings
This blog post is an extract from our GAAD webinar. It discusses the key accessibility improvements in Moodle 3.9 and Brickfield Education Labs contribution to those changes. Moodle 3.9 was released in June 2020 and comes with a range of enhancements for Moodle students, teachers and administrators. Moodle 3.9 also… Read More »Key Moodle 3.9 Accessibility Improvements
Global Accessibility Awareness Day Global Accessibility Awareness Day is held on the 3rd Thursday of each May, where designers, developers, usability experts and everyone else are encouraged to take time to experience first-hand the impact of digital accessibility. Thursday 21st, 2020 is the ninth Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), and… Read More »Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2020
A presentation on accessibility, by Dr Mark Glynn, Dr Donal Fitzpatrick, DCU; Gavin Henrick, Karen Holland – Brickfield Education Labs
Discussing and sharing approaches to VLE accessibility I presented at an ALT FHEDAWG webinar on discussing and sharing approaches to VLE accessibility on 31st October this year. The session was be a discussion and information sharing on how people are approaching the accessibility with regard to their VLE and Online… Read More »ALT FHEDAWG Webinar
Learnovation 2019 – Learning Innovation Summit We had a great session on accessibility at the Learning Innovation Summit where I presented an outline around accessibility in LMS and Content and introduced the EU Directive on Accessibility of websites and mobile apps for Public Sector Bodies. Web Accessibility – What it… Read More »Learnovation 2019
Joining the NDRC and Arclabs! Yesterday startedup with the NDRC’s Arclabs programme for Irish start ups, in Waterford. The NDRC (National Digital Research Centre) is a Dublin based early stage investor in tech companies. They offer practical, hands-on mentorship and support from seasoned founders to help globally ambitious entrepreneurs build… Read More »Joining the NDRC and Arclabs!