Heuristic evaluation of the visual accessibility of the moodle Virtual Learning Environment

This paper describes the Heuristic Evaluation performed to investigate the visual accessibility of the Virtual Learning Environment Moodle. The guidelines of the WCAG 2.0 document, related to the visual disability, were used as heuristics. Each heuristic had its own checklist to assist specialists while performing the evaluation. The Heuristic Evaluation was carried out on the pages related to the two main features of Moodle: (i) provide/access files; and (ii) provide/access tasks. As main result, it was noticed that, in general, the Moodle webpages present good accessibility indications.