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

[Alistair McNaught]

Surprisingly perhaps our awareness, legislation and support is ahead of most other European countries. I've worked on international computer camps for blind people for the last couple of summers and most of the coordinators from other countries are envious of the resources available to support people teaching disabled learners in the UK. It's not that we don't have things to learn, nor have we any cause to be smug but at least we're going in the right direction and have a better support from funders and we would do in many other countries.

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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: 28 July 2011 11:21
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Text to Speech - disable in IE

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!
>
>
> A
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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
> To: Xerte discussion list
> 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
>>
>> 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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