The Brickfield Accessibility+ Toolkit in Moodle helps ensure course materials are accessible to all users. It offers two main features: alternative formats for participants and accessibility reports & fixes for teachers.
1) Participants: Accessing Alternative Formats
When enabled, you’ll see a small alternative formats icon next to supported course resources (e.g., PDFs, Word documents, PowerPoint files). Use it to download the file in a different format that better meets your needs.
Where to click: The alternative formats icon appears next to a file in the course.
How to use the icon
- Locate a resource in your Nexus course with the alternative formats icon (next to the file name).
- Click the icon to open the format selection window.
- Choose your preferred format and confirm.
- After processing, your converted file will be available to download.
Format selection popup: Choose the output format that works best for you.
Tip: If a format takes time to generate, you may receive a notification or email when it’s ready.
2. Available Formats & Who Can Use Them
| Format |
What it is |
Who can access |
| Audio (MP3) |
Text-to-speech narration so you can listen instead of read. |
All enrolled participants (students and staff) |
| EBook |
eReader-friendly format ideal for phones/tablets (Mobi-Kindle, Epub) |
All enrolled participants |
| Tagged PDF |
PDF with headings and structure for screen readers. |
All enrolled participants |
| Electronic Braille (BRF) |
Digital braille file for compatible devices. |
All enrolled participants |
| Word doc |
docx version. |
All enrolled participants |
| HTML / Plain Text |
Clean web or text version for simplified reading. |
All enrolled participants |
3) Faculty: Running Reports & Fixing Accessibility Issues
Teachers can request an accessibility scan of their course and receive actionable reports to fix common issues.
Ways to launch an analysis
- From the course navigation: More → Accessibility+ Toolkit.
Accessibility+ Review block: Shows error counts by content type and links to reports.
- Or add the Accessibility+ Review block while in edit mode, then click Submit for analysis.
Accessibility+ Review block: Shows error counts by content type and links to reports.
Understanding the reports
Report dashboard & heatmap: Visualize issues and jump straight to items needing attention.
Fixing inaccessible content
- Click an issue to open the affected activity/resource for editing (e.g., add alt text, improve headings, fix link text).
- Use any available wizards to batch-fix common problems.
- Save changes and re-run the analysis to verify improvements.
Best practice: Run a scan at the start of term and after adding new content to keep accessibility high.