Accessibility (FAQs) By Learning Platform

Moodle is a web-based learning platform with short courses.  Courses include Reading, Writing, Math, Science, Digital Skills, and Employment readiness.  

You can do preparation for Ontario Secondary School Credit courses, GED, College, Apprenticeship, and complete Personal Management courses.  

Check out our course catalogue for more details.  We develop all the content on Moodle and are committed to improving and enhancing the accessibility of our products.  All content created over the last several years aligns with the accessibility standards mentioned below.  We do ongoing testing and review of our older curriculum as we work to get all content up to this standard.  If you find something that doesn’t support your needs, please let us know.

Yes, use the Chrome Browser for the best results.  Most content scales to size for the device.  

Please note that on a phone some the interactive activities may be difficult to do, and some images may be difficult to read.  Learners prefer tablets or computers, only using their phone occasionally.

ReadSpeaker has a multi-language translation feature that includes the following languages:

Arabic, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Chinese(Mandarin), Norwegian(Bokmal) Polish, Portuguese(Brazil), Portuguese(Portugal), Spanish, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian.

We strive to have all text meet WAG 2.0 AA colour contrast standards to meet the needs of users with visual difficulties and colour blindness.

  
Moodle has a ReadSpeaker text-to-speech tool that reads text out loud to users and alt-text for images but also has tools for enlarging text, and a page mask bar that you can move to highlight the lines being read.  You can personalize reading speed, set highlighting preferences, and font style, size, and colours.

Closed captions are included in videos. Read Speaker has a MP3 download feature to allow you to listen to text offline.

Edmentum is a web-based courseware learning platform with core subjects in Reading, Writing, Math, Science, Digital Skills, and Employment readiness.  

You can do preparation for Ontario Secondary School Credit Courses, GED, College, Apprenticeship, and Personal Management.  

Check out our course catalogue for more details.

Yes, use the Chrome Browser for the best results.  Most content scales to size for the device.  You may need to view in landscape mode to view navigation buttons and a lot of scrolling will be required.  

Please note that on a phone some of the interactive activities may be difficult to do, and some images may be difficult to read. Learners prefer tablets or computers, only using their phone occasionally. 

Edmentum has reading tools with multi-language translation that includes the following languages: 

Arabic, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, French, German, Hindi, Haitian Creole, Hmong Daw, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kiswahili, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Thai, Urdu, Vietnamese.

Edmentum is taking concrete steps to comply with Section 508 of the U.S. Rehabilitation Act and W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0).

Edmentum provides Reading Tools within a lesson and proper support for screen readers and magnifiers to increase accessibility for the visually impaired. i.e. alt text for images, etc. 

For optimum accessibility and performance, we recommend using Mozilla Firefox as your browser when using the following screen readers:  JAWS, Kurzweil 1000.

Zoomtext magnifies screen content up to 24 times. Combined with the use of a large monitor, Zoomtext can be an invaluable tool for visually impaired students.

Some of Edmentum learning products provide on-screen text backup and closed captions for instructionally significant audio and video.

Spellzone is an online English spelling resource used by students aged six to adult.

It unlocks the mystery of Canadian, British, and American English spelling and adapts to all abilities. Including SEND, SLD, ESL students and those with dyslexia.

Students can work on tailored learning pathways at their own pace and on any device.  Spellzone teaches basic phonic spelling rules using multi-sensory activities and tests.

Yes, most content scales to size for the device.  

Please note that on a phone some of the interactive activities may be difficult to do, and some images may be difficult to read.

Words can be translated to 92 different languages via a Dictionary Option search.

Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Cebuano, Chichewa, Chinese Simplified(Voice), Chinese Traditional(Voice), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch(Voice), Esperanto, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French(Voice), Galician, Georgian, German(Voice), Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi(Voice), Hmong, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Indonesian(voice), Irish, Italian(voice), Japanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean(voice), Lao, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Māori, Marathi, Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian, Persian, Polish(voice), Portuguese(voice), Punjabi, Romanian, Russian(voice), Serbian, Sesotho, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish(voice), Sudanese, Swahili, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zulu.

Spellzone has features to choose background and text colour, font style, font size and letter spacing.  It also has a text-to-speech function.

Spellzone has Listen and Spell test learning using audio, which could not be done by someone needing auditory accommodations.