Major Accessibility Improvements

Table of contents

• Major Accessibility Improvements
• Code snippets
• Language Improvements
• Sponsors
• H5P Conference 2020
• What to do next?

Major Accessibility Improvements

H5P has two primary focuses in everything we do: accessibility and user experience. Previously, it has been difficult to generate funding for these two focuses as organizations typically want to fund cool new features and content types. With the income we now generate from H5P.com we are also able to fund the less spectacular, but certainly more important improvements. The H5P Core team has been working with two universities and spent several weeks improving the accessibility of H5P.

34 issues have been solved.

Availability:

• H5P.com US: November 18th
• H5P.com EU: November 19th
• H5P.com AP: November 20th
• Self hosters: Available

Code snippets

If you use H5P to teach programming you may now finally add both inline code and larger code snippets almost everywhere in H5P!

Here is an example:

Since code snippets will only confuse the majority of our users, this feature is disabled by default, but H5P.com users may enable it in their user profiles. Self hosters may enable the feature following this tutorial. Some may want to add it for some of their specific users and others probably for everyone.

A big thanks to eCornell for sponsoring and contributing the code snippets feature.

Availability:

• H5P.com US: November 18th
• H5P.com EU: November 19th
• H5P.com AP: November 20th
• Self hosters: Available, but must be enabled

Language Improvements

Our community has been fantastic at contributing language improvements for H5P. Below is a list of contributors:

• German (otacke, Sebastian Rettig, germanvaleroelizondo)
• Russian (Skiper7, maxtetdev)
• Greek (e-me)
• Italian (gerardofallani)
• Slovenian (miropuhek)
• French (martin-kosmos, kevin-kosmos)
• Brazilian Portugese (MarvinTomizawa, jnavroski, henrique-cesar)
• Czech (svatas)
• Ukrainian (yurashrol)
• Turkish (kartagis)
• Costa Rican Spanish (germanvaleroelizondo, marbaque)
• Estonian (leoste)
• Basque (izendegi)
• Spanish (marbaque)
• Polish (apienk)
• Bulgarian (ceibg)
• Norwegian (knutski)

We’ve also added support for French and Dutch for H5P.com itself. A big thanks to Frederic Raes and Thomas Claeys from Artevelde University of Applied Sciences for contributing the Dutch and French translations for H5P.com. Users of H5P.com may change their language in their user profile.

Availability:

• H5P.com US: November 18th
• H5P.com EU: November 19th
• H5P.com AP: November 20th
• Self hosters: Available

Sponsors

The H5P.com customers

The customers of H5P.com, the SaaS version of H5P, are the biggest sponsors of H5P. While enjoying the best version of H5P, priority support from the H5P Core Team and high end hosting the H5P.com customers contribute massively to the open source project with feedback and funding. H5P.com was launched August 1st 2018. After a year almost 100 universities and schools were among the H5P.com customers and the H5P.com customer base continues to grow rapidly both within education and enterprise. By joining H5P.com organizations make H5P possible and help move H5P forward faster in the years to come.

You may now register for the H5P Con 2020

Madison, Wisconsin, 18th-20th May 2020

A preliminary program is available and you may now register for the H5P Conference 2020

What to do next?

• Read the November status update
• Join the H5P Beta Testers team
• Contribute to the H5P Community