Ensuring accessibility
In most educational settings, accessibility is now a legal requirement. So, it is crucial to ensure compliance of your system with the respective standards.
Important note
Accessibility is the ability for users with certain disabilities to access Moodle’s functionality.
An area has been dedicated to Moodle accessibility in Moodle Docs, which you can access at docs.moodle.org/en/Accessibility. It provides useful links to standards, guidelines, legislation, and subject-related tools and resources.
Three main accessibility areas affect accessibility in Moodle:
- System accessibility
- Theme accessibility
- Content accessibility
We will cover all three accessibility types in the following subsections.
System accessibility
Moodle fully complies with major accessibility standards and has obtained WCAG 2.1 level AA Accreditation. Moodle enforces XHTML 1.0 Strict, which only allows the usage of compliant HTML constructs and the...
