An XBlock which when enabled in a course page, puts the Accessibility Bar toolbar on the top of any web page, within the course.
Predominantly, low vision and other reading difficulties. #Why is it needed: It is designed for those who may not have their assistive technologies to hand and need a quick way of accessing text on the screen with magnification and/or text to speech etc. #Library used: AtKit.js Imported the library AtKit.js in the Accessibility Bar XBlock. #Functionalities:
- Zoom Menu: Select the Magnifiers button to increase or decrease the size of the text.
- Font Face Menu: Choose a different type of font for the text of the web page.
- Line Spacing Menu: Increase line spacing between the text of the web page.
- Font Color Menu: Choose a different color of font for the text of the web page.
- Link Color Menu: Choose a different color of link tags for the text of the web page.
- Background Color Menu: Choose a different color for the background of the web page.
- Text-to-Speech Menu: Button to have the highlighted text on the web page, read aloud.
- Return Menu: Select this option if we wish to restore the webpage to its original style.
- Close Menu: Select this option to exit Accessibility Bar XBlock.