Hi Everyone,
Our team is using the grid format in some courses we are creating.
One course, the set of images we are having to use have words that delineates the topics. As a result we are hamstrung with the design to removing the titles for each section.
For accessibility this is of course an issue for screen readers. Is there a way to put in a text alternative for the images loaded in the grid?
Cheers
Yvette
Dear Yvette,
Not at the moment.
Ok, what I'll do for 'free' is place the section name as the 'alt' field text, sort the icon size relative to the styles, back port the quiz restore issue and log file new activity to Moodle 2.3.4+ (because of MDL-36095 and therefore I had no choice but to update the code to support it). I notice that you state that are running 2.3.2, so you will have to upgrade within the 2.3 branch to use it - back porting to another off shoot branch will cause greater configuration management nightmares for me. This is a trade off as I normally only do improvements (the alt text) in the latest version.
Anything more will require discussion.
Gareth
Hi Gareth
Could you confirm if alt text has been added? We love Grid and I want to role it out some more, but there is a concern from Learning Support about it working with Screen Readers e.g. the built in Mac accessibility reader.
Otherwise we'll have to duplicate the course and make a text-only version, which would be a shame.
Cheers.
Dan
Hi Dan,
Yes, now the image has an 'alt' attribute with the section name as the contents: https://github.com/gjb2048/moodle-format_grid/blob/MOODLE_27/renderer.php#L480. It was added back in Version 2.5.3.2 so therefore for M2.5+.
Cheers,
Gareth
