[Xerte-dev] Re: Possible Accessibility Issue in XoT 1.8

[Julian Tenney]

I'll have a look in the New Year,

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Thomas Rochford
Sent: 17 December 2012 22:10
To: xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Possible Accessibility Issue in XoT 1.8

Good evening everyone,
I was running a training session today for some adult education teachers and came across an interesting problem with 1.8. One of the delegates, whose eyesight was poor, had set her laptop to use a rather larger font than usual. When the Xerte Editor window opened up, the bottom part of the window, including the 'Play' button, was off screen and completely inaccessible. We worked around the problem by setting the browser magnification option down to 90% but, of course, this also reduced the font size, so although she found it usable for short period, she felt it would be difficult to work for long at this resolution. The 'Title' also did not resize correctly when the size was set to 'default', but worked fine with 'Fill Window' and 'Fill Screen'.
It occurs to me that the easiest way to fix this is to enable horizontal and vertical scroll bars for the window. I have seen this problem with another application called 'IrfanView' -  a free, and very powerful image editor, when running it on a Sony Vaio with a strange screen size (wide but not very high, like an HD screen is sometimes displayed). Is it too late to add scroll bars to 1.9, if so, maybe it could go on the wish list.
I've also been experimenting with Unicode fonts and very obscure alphabets (Cuneiform in my case). They do work, but only in the latest version of Firefox. I don't think this is a major issue :) but would like any thoughts if anyone out there knows a bit about embedding Fonts, Unicode or otherwise. Maybe I need to edit a .css file to add a new style now that 'face="CuneiformOB"' is no longer supported under HTML 5.
Kindest Regards,
Thomas
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