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Accessibility
PLEASE NOTE: This plugin is no longer being actively maintained by Brickfield. The main challenge is with the third-party external ATBar, which is not being maintained at all by its authors, at some point has lost all of its docs, and doesn't have an up-to-date SSL.
If someone has funding, and would like to cover the updating of this plugin, we would be happy to engage with you on this.
We are planning on sharing a new plugin which will provide guidance to users with their font size, font colour, and other display options, depending on their browser. We will update this plugin description once it's available.
The block allows users to customise Moodle to their visual needs. It supports changing of text sizes and colour schemes. Customisations save to the user's session, allowing them to persist between pages, and can also be saved to the database allowing them to apply permanently.
The block also integrates ATBar from Southampton University ECS. This provides extra tools and customisation options, including dictionary lookup and Text-to-speech. Visual customisations performed with ATBar don't currently persist, and can be used as well as or instead of the block's own customisations.
Please don't report bugs here
If you experience an error with the block, or would like to request a feature, please use the "Bug Tracker" link below.
This is a great plugin, and still works on 3.6. We are really keen to see it continue to be developed. Can I have a conversation about how we can help see an update to this.
I have sent a contact request.
Ken
It has been long years since the plugin was initially released and surely back then there was a need and common practice to have such tools improving the accessibility on the website. But since then the whole Web has changed, the websites, browsers, browsing devices, assistive technology and even the accessibility guidelines.
Here is a quote from well accepted accessibility resource WebAIM describing it as a bad practice: "All browsers allow the sizing or scaling of the page content - why duplicate this browser functionality?" > https://webaim.org/articles/gonewild#options
What do I have to do in index.php?
If I have to change the file, when I update Moodle, the changes will be lost.
I have just installed the latest version and there is an error.
When you click A- or A+ you get an error message.
If says:
Error changing size: undefined undefined
Then the circular spinner just spins.
Also, the block has spaces for 3 different overlays, is there any chance you can increase this, as we work with a lot of schools and to be honest we need about 6 different overlays to cover all schools.
If you need a screenshot of the error messages, please let me know. I love this block. Thank you.
Which css variable should be used in custom labels for the font to be affected:
neither color:var(--light) nor color:var(--white) nor color:white are transformed by AtBar into dark or black font when changing layout, although the background does change into yellow or blue.
Thanks
When you click A- or A+, it doesn't do anything. Do you know how to solve this problem?
Thanks in advance