Martin Dougiamas

It's something we aim for (we spend a lot of time on accessibility), but it depends on the features you are using and the theme you are using, as well as the exact screen reader technology you are using.   Very hard to get perfect (and even then the accessibility experts still argue on what is best)

While I agree with you in principle that it would be nice, in practice including too much stuff up at the top makes mobile use pretty bad (because it looks so crowded up there).   We actually took it out from the top because login is not something you do a lot of, and Moodle will prompt people anyway if they hit anything where they need to log in.

Well, Moodle HQ does test code and new interfaces continuously among ourselves as much as we can, and the community tests things and gives us feedback via tracker which we try to prioritise and work on.

What I was probably talking about at that meeting 6 years ago is that HQ has never run formal usability testing sessions as per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usability_testing 

I have been looking to hire someone to focus on this sort of thing for a while, but it's a diffcult task in Moodle as interfaces can be affected so much on different themes, devices, configurations, roles and workflow, so this person always has to deal with a lot of technical stuff at the same time.  Simple changes are sometimes very complex to perform.

Others have done formal usability tests, and that has affected Moodle developments in the past.  One example was the current quiz creation interface (however I have to say I personally find that interface really difficult when creating a decent-sized quiz )

In any case, it's something we talk about and work on a lot here and I'm glad you are finding some of the recent (and ongoing) changes in Moodle's interface to be positive.

The drag/drop attachments thing on tablets is a Moodle issue and something that'll be dealt with eventually.

And Urs, I wanted to say many thanks for the last design we had that lasted so long!

I don't see thousands of unanimous forum posts on this subject.

Is there a complete list of syntaxes that people actually want to use in teaching situations?  I'm aware of TeX and MathML.