Accessibility

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Accessibility maturity at institution and module level with Alistair McNaught

Accessibility Maturity at Institution and Module Level with Alistair McNaught Translating accessibility into everyday language and practice is the key to culture change. In this session, Alistair McNaught introduced two education-focused models that help locate digital accessibility in holistic frameworks that are meaningful to all staff and reflect their different… Read More »Accessibility maturity at institution and module level with Alistair McNaught

Helen Wilson shared her first slide on zoom webinar, slide reads, Welcome to SCULPT for accessibility, Helen Wilson, Digital Designer and SCULPT lead, Worcestershire county council

SCULPT Accessibility Awareness Building with Helen Wilson 

SCULPT Accessibility Awareness Building with Helen Wilson  SCULPT for Accessibility emerged from research that explored digital literacy and digital accessibility. This presentation will take you through the journey of how SCULPT was developed, embedded as part of their mandatory learning expectation for all new starters and existing staff, and their… Read More »SCULPT Accessibility Awareness Building with Helen Wilson 

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Writing Alt Text for Images with Huw Alexander 

Writing Alt Text for Images with Huw Alexander  In his presentation, ‘Enriching the Moodle environment with alt text and image descriptions’, textBOX’s Huw Alexander demonstrates the focus|LOCUS method for writing immersive image descriptions within VLEs. About the speaker Huw Alexander is the Managing Director of textBOX Digital. textBOX creates alt… Read More »Writing Alt Text for Images with Huw Alexander 

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Finding, Fixing and Future-Proofing your Moodle Courses

Finding, Fixing and Future-Proofing your Moodle Courses Karen Holland and Gavin Henrick are co-founders of Brickfield Education Labs. In their session, they covered how to find, fix and future-proof Moodle courses and content using the Accessibility Toolkit. They also ran through the features of the Brickfield Accessibility Toolkit, and how… Read More »Finding, Fixing and Future-Proofing your Moodle Courses

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Welcome with Sander Bangma

Welcome with Sander Bangma As the host of Brickfield Education Lab’s first accessibility conference, Gavin welcomed all attendees and speakers in this session and then introduced Sander Bangma. Sander kicked off the event by highlighting Moodle’s approach to accessibility and the Moodle journey to achieving accessibility accreditation. About the speaker… Read More »Welcome with Sander Bangma

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Accessibility for your LMS

Accessibility for your LMS (Global Moodlemoot Reflection) This post is based on the blog post ‘Tips to make your LMS content accessible’, published by Moodle on January 12th, 2021. “We believe that accessibility is crucial; only a learning management system that supports learners with diverse needs can provide true quality… Read More »Accessibility for your LMS

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Sponsoring MootIEUK20!

Sponsoring MootIEUK20! This week we sponsored the 2020 UK & Ireland Moodlemoot, taking place online from Monday, September 28th to Wednesday, September 30th.  We were disappointed not to be welcoming everyone to sunny Dublin, but adapted to the new hybrid-online event. We were delighted to attend the first online UK… Read More »Sponsoring MootIEUK20!

ALT Virtual Summer Summit 2020!

ALT Virtual Summer Summit 2020! This week, we attended ALT’s first virtual Summer Summit. The two day online event was hosted by the Association for Learning Technology, an independent charity and leading professional body for Learning Technology in the UK. Brickfield Education Labs sponsored the event held on 26-27 August.… Read More »ALT Virtual Summer Summit 2020!