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

[Pat Lockley]

it maximised the editor window, Alisdair had the problem that on small
EEE's and wot not you needed scroll bars


On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Julian Tenney <
Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> What did it do?****
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> *From:* xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Pat Lockley
> *Sent:* 18 December 2012 11:02
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Re: Possible Accessibility Issue in XoT 1.8****
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> there used to be the maximise window button which solved this****
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> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Julian Tenney <
> Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:****
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> I’ll have a look in the New Year,****
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> *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****
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> Good evening everyone,****
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> 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’.****
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> 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.****
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> 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 J 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.****
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> Kindest Regards,****
>
> Thomas****
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