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

[Ron Mitchell]

I always encourage people to include narration and/or sound wherever
relevant but mostly for the teaching and learning benefits of doing that as
well as the usability and accessibility benefits. However I have to also
question the reason for disabling the TTS checkbox....

1. If it causes support requests surely that's a good thing rather than a
bad thing
2. It doesn't really spoil the interface and if it helps just one user what
harm does leaving it in do?
3. Audio narration doesn't really help someone who is partially sighted or
blind to navigate the object and or hear the controls and tooltips etc just
as TTS doesn't replace the personality and intonation etc that comes from
including audio content. So one doesn't really replace the other.

HTH
Ron

-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 28 July 2011 11:28
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Text to Speech - disable in IE

It well avoided if you think about accessibility being primarily about
usability, and about making resources as usuable as possible for as many
people as possible.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Alistair McNaught
Sent: 28 July 2011 11:12
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Text to Speech - disable in IE

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! 


A 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
Sent: 27 July 2011 19:27
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Text to Speech - disable in IE

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
>
> 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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