Use the Accessibility toolkit

The Brickfield Accessibility Toolkit helps to review the accessibility of your Moodle site and identify areas for improvement through reports.

Advice for how to use the accessibility reports

Monash university supports accessibility of online content for all students. This toolkit will give you basic pointers on accessibility in your unit, including suggestions for improvements. These recommendations are based on the internationally recognised WCAG Guidelines, of which Monash endeavours to meet the AA standard. Following the Toolkit suggestions will assist you in improving the experience of all students in your Moodle unit.

  1. From the main menu, click More.
  2. Select Accessibility report.

    image of main menu banner expanded to show the link to the accessibility toolkit link

  3. The first time you access the report, you will be prompted to Submit your unit for analysis.

    Image of the text notification and submit for analysis button

  4. Click Submit for analysis. 

    Note: Once submitted for initial analysis, a regular update is submitted to include any changes made to your site automatically without the need for re-running the analysis.

  5. You will be redirected to your Moodle unit dashboard. Depending on the amount of content in your unit, this may take some time.

    text notification once the submit for analysis button has been clicked.

  6. Once the initial analysis is complete, when you click Accessibility report, you will be able to see the following reports.

Select a tab to learn more about each report

The Error list wizard provides you with all errors for the course to help find and fix them quickly. Each error has its own Edit link, which brings you directly to edit the original content in which the error occurs.

image of the error list report

The Error list wizard displays the following details for each error:

  • Activity: The activity type and activity name.
  • Check: HTML check that failed.
  • Line: the line of code the error exists on.
  • Existing HTML code: the full HTML code.
  • Edit: Click Edit to navigate directly to the activity.