How to make an accessible PDF

Posted on December 6, 2019 by Adam Marshall

I just came across this series of blog posts from our near neighbours the “University College of Estate Management” in Reading. I thought they may be of some use: Accessible PDFs – Creating a PDF (1/5) Accessible PDFs – Document … Continue reading →

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Office For Students report: “Beyond the bare minimum: Are universities and colleges doing enough for disabled students?”

Posted on October 31, 2019 by Adam Marshall

I just received an email from Policy Connect about a recently published report by the Office for Students who reviewed Disability Support in UK HEIs. Here’s what they said. The review has produced valuable evidence on the state of digital … Continue reading →

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Adobe Products and accessibility

Posted on September 2, 2019 by Adam Marshall

Here’s a great resource from Adobe about creating accessible media. 

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Free Accessibility Tool

Posted on January 28, 2019 by Adam Marshall

  I thought I’d pass along the following message from JISC. It is important to ensure that the visual content of your website and learning resources has alternative text for those who either cannot see the visual content or struggle … Continue reading →

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H5P Improvements: LaTeX, Content Reuse and Copyright Handling

Posted on November 8, 2018 by Adam Marshall

Those wonderful people at H5P have added some new features the most impressive of which is the integration of LaTeX into all content types (eg, drag and drop, multiple choice etc.) If you want more information then you will find that … Continue reading →

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Introducing the new ‘Cabinet’ LTI tool

Posted on October 25, 2018 by Adam Marshall

A new (external) tool called ‘Cabinet’ has been added to WebLearn. You can find it in the “Plugins” section of the “Manage Tools” page in “Site Info”. Integrating Object, Image and Text in Oxford Teaching Digital technologies are revolutionising our … Continue reading →

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Accessibility and WebLearn

Posted on September 25, 2018 by Adam Marshall

The University’s Disability Advisory Service brought to my attention that Policy Connect, (who describe themselves as “a cross-party think tank improving people’s lives by influencing policy”,) have recently published a report on Accessible VLEs (Twit: #AccessibleVLEs). Apparently there has been lots of interest in the findings … Continue reading →

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Improvements to WebLearn in version 11-ox12

Posted on September 7, 2018 by Adam Marshall

WebLearn was upgraded to version 11-ox12 at the end of August: this was a small release. Improvements Lessons, the correct list of content providers is now listed on the More Tools > External Tool Import’ page – this is the … Continue reading →

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Add Interactive Video Content to WebLearn

Posted on July 2, 2018 by Adam Marshall

Those wonderful people at H5P have made some improvements to their interactive video content type. (This allows one to embed a You Tube video in an HTML page or Lessons pages and overlay quizzes, pop-up text or other types of … Continue reading →

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Improvements in WebLearn v11-ox9 released on 23 Jan 2018

Posted on March 20, 2018 by Adam Marshall

A new version of WebLearn (version 11-ox9) was released on Tuesday 23 January 2018. There have been a number of improvements especially in the area of anonymous essay submissions. Here is a breakdown of the enhancements. Anonymous Submissions / Assignments A warning … Continue reading →

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