[Xerte] Re: FW: Browser issues

Thu Dec 8 22:18:12 GMT 2011

Thanks Ron - that's beginning to look like a real issue with IE9. Any other experiences out there or any ideas
1) why it won't work? Or
2) whether it can be tweaked to work again either in the browser end or in the Xerte end of?

A

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of KnowledgeWare
Sent: 08 December 2011 19:35
To: 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: [Xerte] Re: FW: Browser issues

Hello Allistair:

I'm on Windows7 /  IE9 - 9.0.8112.16421

I've followed the instructions re the activeX trusting, cannot get TTS to
work. It's worked previously on my XP partition.

RonM2

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Alistair McNaught
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 2:43 AM
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] FW: Browser issues

Hi all
I've had problems reported on IE9 where text to speech doesn't seem to work
irrespective of the IE settings that are tweaked.

Could any IE9 users have a go with TTS and let me know if it's working for
you so we can begin to home in on the problem?

Many thanks

Alistair

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From: A list to facilitate and support teachers using Xerte Online Toolkits
[mailto:XERTEFORTEACHERS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Bloxham, Judy
Sent: 08 December 2011 10:26
To: XERTEFORTEACHERS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Browser issues

Is anyone looking into the issues caused by IE9, we have tried a variety of
settings and cannot get the text to voice to work. If you look at the
previous browser settings then there is one thing that is included now that
wasn't on IE8. We've tried setting this both on and off and it makes no
difference. As a lot of places are now updating to this version of the
browser it is going to cause issues.

Regards
Judy Bloxham

E-Learning Adviser
JISC RSC Northwest

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From: A list to facilitate and support teachers using Xerte Online Toolkits
[mailto:XERTEFORTEACHERS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Alistair McNaught
Sent: 08 December 2011 09:03
To: XERTEFORTEACHERS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: New table template

Hi all
There have been discussions at different times about how best to represent
tables in Xerte in a way that was accessible to keyboard users or text to
speech users. Fay Cross from the University of Nottingham has now created a
table template for Xerte online toolkits.

Here's a quick example: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_6331

It will display basic tables and gives you a range of ways to present them.
You can either enter the table data manually in the wizard or upload a CSV
file.

If you currently do not have your own institution's installation of Xerte
toolkits you can play with the table template on the JISC Techdis sandpit at
www.techdisplayxerte.info.

If you already have your own institutional installation of toolkits then you
can get your technical team to add the table template by getting them to
follow the instructions below;

If your technical team have any further questions please encourage them to
put them onto the Xerte technical list or search the archives.  Both can be
found at http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte/community.htm.

So here are the instructions.  Don't expect me to answer questions on them,
I am merely passing them on to you as I would to my own technical support
guru!

The attached files need to be placed in the following locations...

table.rlm goes in the folder
modules\xerte\parent_templates\Nottingham\models
data.xwd replaces the existing file at
modules\xerte\parent_templates\Nottingham
wizard.swf replaces the file at modules\xerte\engine

It might be worth people backing up their old version of the data.xwd and
wizard.swf files before they replace them in case of any problems.

Obviously, as with any free and open source tools, all tinkering is at your
own risk and for your own rewards!

Alistair

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