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Formatting and Enhancing Your Moodle Materials
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6. Click on OK to save the changes.
7. Then click on the minimize editor icon to get back to the normal
editing screen.
8. Finally, click on Save changes. You should now have something like this:
Style guide
Once you've worked out how you want to achieve contrast, consistency, alignment,
and control layout, it's a good idea to summarize this in a style guide document,
which you should then give to all course creators and teachers on your Moodle site.
Of course, it's possible that your Moodle courses are living along side other Moodle
courses in your organization, in which case you'll need to make sure you follow your
organization's style guide.
Accessibility
Don't forget that some users are visually impaired. Here are a few tips you can
follow to make life easier. In fact they're good practice even for users who aren't
visually impaired.
Alt tags
Alt stands for Alternative text. If you use images, use the Alt tag to provide a clear
text alternative. An alternative text should let the user know what an image is and
the purpose of that image; in this example, we have This is a picture of our dog,
Rover, when he was 6 months old..
