Accessibility Accreditation for Moodle Workplace
- Client:
- Moodle Workplace
- Accreditation Level:
- Gold
- Date Accreditation issued:
- 27 Jun 2024
Digital Accessibility Conformance Evaluation
A technical evaluation of 24 pages was conducted. The pages selected constitute an accessibility audit of the website. These pages were selected by GrackleDocs and agreed on by the client as representative of the overall accessibility and functionality of the website.
The evaluation was completed in accordance with the WCAG Evaluation Methodology (WCAG-EM) which can be viewed at http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG-EM/.
The pages were audited manually and cross-checked using a team of website evaluators to ensure that the results and comments presented are valid and comprehensive.
Accessibility support baseline
- Website/Application Tested:
- Moodle Workplace
- Date Tested:
- 22 Aug 2023 - 27 Jun 2024
- Scope of test:
- 24 HTML pages and 1 PDF were selected as a representation of the website in accordance with the W3C WCAG Evaluation Methodology (WCAG-EM)
- Guildelines:
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 at https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/
- Conformance Level satisfied:
- WCAG 2.1 to Level AA
- Technologies relied on:
- HTML, CSS, JavaScript, WAI-ARIA
- Primary Browser/s:
- Chrome 116, Firefox 116
- Number of pages evaluated:
- 24
- Platform:
- Desktop
- Valid from:
- 27 Jun 2024
- Expiry:
- 27 Jun 2025
Remaining Issues and Exceptions
Whilst Moodle has gone to great lengths to make Moodle Workplace accessible, PDFs produced within Moodle Workplace do not currently conform with PDF/UA and WCAG2ICT standards. Moodle is continuing to review and investigate solutions going forward in order to provide fully accessible PDFs in the future.
Certificate of GrackleDocs Accreditation
This website has been evaluated through a rigid manual process of technical audit of all of the sample pages against WCAG 2.1 to Level AA and meets the requirements of WCAG 2.1 to Level AA.
Other Standards
WCAG 2.1 also forms the content of the ISO Standard ISO: IEC 40500:2012 which can be located at https://www.iso.org/standard/58625.html
The content of WCAG forms the standard for digital accessibility compliance in EN 301549 and AS EN 301549 “Accessibility requirements suitable for public procurement of ICT products and services in Europe” which has been adopted in Australia as AS EN 302549. This standard includes:
- web content
- electronic documents
- non-web software, such as native mobile apps
Information can be found at http://www.w3.org/WAI/news/2018-09-13/WCAG-21-EN301549/ and http://mandate376.standards.eu/standard.