[Xerte] Re: Xerte online toolkits and Jaws

[Julian Tenney]

You use a voice for that language - otherwise it'll sound like me trying to speak French. The language specific voice knows how to pronounce words correctly. Up until that point, they are just strings.

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
Sent: 13 June 2012 13:06
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Xerte online toolkits and Jaws

how does the screen reader know the language?

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Julian Tenney
<Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> I think it would just work (Mostly) because right now most of the strings spoken are coming from the xml.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
> Sent: 13 June 2012 11:55
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> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Xerte online toolkits and Jaws
>
> http://code.google.com/p/xerte/
>
> as a heads up
>
> Xerte 3 exists, and there will soon be a HTML 5 player as well
>
> *curious question*
>
> How would we handle accessibility of a screen reader for possibly
> multiple languages?
>
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Ian.Lindsay <Ian.Lindsay at open.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>> We've been doing a lot of testing here to see how we can improve Xerte
>> behaviour with screen readers (mainly Jaws). Many thanks for the help when
>> my colleague has posted previously, and for the updated engine file which
>> seemed to solve quite a few of the issues. I wasn't sure where Xerte was on
>> the open/closed source side of things but was wondering whether I might be
>> able to take a look through the source file for this (an .fla file,
>> presumably?) and see if there's any further improvements I could make?
>> Anything we found we would of course share with the Xerte community.
>>
>>
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>>
>>
>>
>> Ian Lindsay
>>
>> Web Developer
>>
>> Open University Library
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