[Xerte] Re: Text to Speech - disable in IE

[Pat Lockley]

My argument was perhaps "their" laws might be tougher than hours
(without getting all post colonial)

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Alistair McNaught
<Alistair.McNaught at heacademy.ac.uk> wrote:
> That's a perfectly fair point but I've worked with international accessibility projects and it's a can of worms that is best left unopened.
> It can lead to logical but unethical conclusions like "Somalia has poor accessibility legislation and no enforcement so blind Somalians can be safely ignored when designing learning objects..." - a route we really don't want to go down!
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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: 27 July 2011 19:27
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> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Text to Speech - disable in IE
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> I think Janis is also Latvian? and so may also have different laws?
>
> Is there a list anywhere of compliances / best practice for different
> legislations?
>
> Might help with internationalisation?
>
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 7:09 PM, Alistair McNaught
> <Alistair.McNaught at heacademy.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Hi Janis
>> Thanks for clarification. That sounds like a defensible decision and
>> although there's no obligation for you to justify it to me (!) I'm grateful
>> you took the time to explain, not least because accessibility is one of the
>> selling points of Xerte and it's good to keep the topic alive on the list.
>> All the best
>> Alistair
>>
>>
>> Sent from my phone:
>> Alistair McNaught
>> 07870567659
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>> On 27 Jul 2011, at 18:47, "Janis Ozols" <stepiko14 at inbox.lv> wrote:
>>
>> Thank you, Julian. It is done know. Sorry, I couldn't locate it in the
>> archive.
>> Alistair McNaught, I decided to disable Text to Speech option, because we
>> have recorded our own text narration for important text objects and embedded
>> it into the project, and I think it will be more accessible in the end as
>> our test groups reported they couldn't enable Xerte Text to Speech to work
>> even with tutorials on how to enable ActiveX in IE properties. As well as
>> many users just don't have an administrator access to computers in public
>> places to make it work. + own recorded narration will work in all browsers.
>> So that was the reason to dissable Xerte's text to speech and record/embedd
>> our own narration.
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