Student projects/Automatic accessibility checking

Note: This page outlines ideas for the Automatic accessibility checking project. It's a specification under construction! If you have any comments or suggestions, please add them to the page comments.

The objective of this project is to make a tool that can check Moodle´s accessibility automatically before realising a version.

Project Outline: Create a button that will pull the source and submit it to a validation service. The errors and warnings will be pulled back to the page, and displayed in a simple GUI. This will be accomplished by AJAX.

Abstract flow:

• Send Request
  • Get Source
    • Die (If unable to grab source)
  • Submit Source
    • Die (If unable to communicate with the validation server)
  • Retrieve Errors
    • Die (If unable to read errors)
  • Display Errors

UML Diagram:

• Version 1
  • Image PNG
  • OpenOffice.org - Draw

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GUI:

• Version 1
  • Image PNG
  • Layout PSD

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Code:

• Version 1
  • Javascript ZIP
  • PHP ZIP

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Note: Check size limit of http post, the size is 1-2mb. But it can pass 80mb?

Future Extensions: Create code so it is easy to edit and create extensions on to it. The GUI will be easily updated to include future options.

See also

• GSOC/2008
• Automatic accessibility checking application abstract
• Using Moodle GSOC: Automatic Accessibility Checking forum discussion