Frances Bell

Thanks Martin.

If you in Perth are working with servers in Dallas, then I don't suppose that fast connection to Europe is too much of a problem

Following up the hosting service aspect, I wondered what experience there is out there of use of hosting services for international use of moodle.

We have installed moodle on a test server, and are very pleased with it.  In September we plan to move to a commercial hosting service, and are currently researching possibilities.  Our portal will host staff and student networks and private collaboration spaces for groups of students from different universities (usually different countries).  Initially participants will be from across Europe but ultimately across the world.  We will invite moodlers when we launch the site in the next couple of months.

We are looking for a solution that is scalable and offers good, roughly equivalent response times regardless of location.

Any ideas/useful tips?

Thanks for that suggestion and the link to Joe Clark's stuff.

Now I may be mistaken but when I viewed source for the page with my message above, I didn't think that the icon image was next to my name.

On the Collaboration Across Borders project, we are developing tutor and student networks on a moodle test server, and hope to move to a production server in September. Moodle is turning out very well for us, and we hope to become part of the wider moodle community in the coming months.

I have searched the forums, and can see that the next version of moodle will deal with additional accessibility issues, but I wanted to ask two questions.

1. Will these changes include ALT text for the user icon, meaning text to explain the little flower on top LHS of this message?

2. Has any moodler produced any guidance for contributors to their moodle sites, to help them use moodle features to produce content with maximum accessibility?  We'd like to build on existing good practice, and are of course happy to share the guidance we produce.

I have seen references to content/summary, and possible replacement of HTML editor, but nothing that answers my question.