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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.
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Strict Standards: Creating default object from empty value in xx/mod/accessibility/version.php on line 34
Invalid get_string() identifier: 'modulename' or component 'mod_accessibility'. Perhaps you are missing $string['modulename'] = ''; in mod/accessibility/lang/en/accessibility.php?
We only have one issues that i was wondering if anyone could help with.
All settings work as expected except the light yellow background, we use the built in moodle menu in grey with white writing. But when selecting the yellow setting it make the menu unreadable and user who is logged in writing at the top unreadable. I know this is because the txt is in white, and cannoit rearly change this as it spot on for the theme.
If anyone has any ideas on a tweak please ley me know and i can add no problems.
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any help appreacated.
The security was issue was about "Cron", it would break, and crash your entire site! It has been completely removed, fixing the security problem.
2.1.2 of this block is production ready!
Just a note: you need to add the block to the front page (so it's in the system context) then edit the block instance's settings and tell it to appear in all child contexts.
Thanks Mark!
line ~111 of database.php
} else if (accessibility_is_ajax()) {
// header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");
}
If I comment that out, the plugin works flawlessly!
I var_dump($_SERVER) and 'HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH' isn't there. I've turned Ajax on and off.
This occurs in a few of the core themes but not all. Removing the block for the pluggins fixes the problem.
Interestingly, performing the same action while logged in as a teacher works fine. I also thought it might be theme related, but I've tried it under several different ones with the same result.
As it's vital for us that admin users be able to fully test quizzes, etc. any insight you might be able to offer would be greatly appreciated.
This issue was reported on the bug tracker[1] and should be fixed in version 2.1.3. Can you confirm whether you've updated to that version? If you have and its still occurring, please add a comment to the tracer issue and I'll reopen it.
[1] https://github.com/marxjohnson/moodle-block_accessibility/issues/17
I already know the plugin has been translated into french but only for the displaying texts.
Is there a way to get french reading of the screen with french accent ?
Thanks !
Vince
Under older versions of the plugin, this was possible by running your own local Text-To-Speech server. However, this wasn't very well or securely implemented so I removed it as I dont currently have the time to maintain it. The plugin now uses the ATBar and TTS server hosted at University of Southampton as part of their ATKit project - perhaps you could suggest support for different voices on their bug tracker? https://github.com/AccessAtECS/AtKit