[Xerte] Re: Active X changes in web browsers

Fri Mar 11 11:43:23 GMT 2011

Hi Kerrie

This is obviously in IE only and as I put as a question I'm not 100% certain
that this isn't specific to my laptop/configuration so would be good to hear
from others but anyway what I found was that regardless of the active x
settings if I had protected mode enabled the tts didn't work, with it
unchecked it does work.

Tools > Internet Options > Security > uncheck enable protected mode and
click apply

Then visit your LO/refresh the page, tick the tts checkbox, enable the
prompt and then tab around.

Let us know if that works for you?

HTH

Ron

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Kerrie Stephenson
Sent: 11 March 2011 11:29
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Active X changes in web browsers

Hello everybody,

I have changed my active settings but still have no sound for TTS.  Ron has
said to uncheck "Enable Protected mode", I'm not sure what this means, could
you tell me how to do it, it may then work for me.

Regards, Kerrie.  

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 09 March 2011 12:00
To: 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Active X changes in web browsers

Hi Julian/all

a couple of reasons for posting a reply to this older topic...

1. In response to the recent question about tts I tried searching the list
archives via and used Active X changes in web browsers as the search term
but it didn't find the thread below. Thinking about Johnathan's thread about
not finding messages he posted either I'm wondering if something has gone
awry with the list search?

2. Also to update the thread below with what I've found in relation to the
tts problem I had: I compared and matched the settings for Internet zone and
Local Intranet zone because I was getting TTS working via a http://localhost
install but not a web based url. However what I noticed was that the
Internet zone had the Enable protected mode checked whereas the local
intranet zone didn't have this checked. Un-checking this for Internet zone
got TTS working again for web based URL's.

So we know that the active x setting that must be set to prompt or enabled
is "Initialise and script active x controls not marked as safe for
scripting" but is it also the case that "Enable Protected mode" must be
unchecked? That's certainly the case for me but just wondering if there's
another combination of some sort that stops the TTS from working if
Protected mode is enabled?

Cheers

Ron

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 16 February 2011 08:00
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Active X changes in web browsers

For all zones? Where is the content playing from? The local machine zone
can't be easily accessed anymore, but does have its own settings.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 15 February 2011 16:43
To: 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Active X changes in web browsers

Well in changing setting on my laptop to try to verify this I'm now not
getting any sound from the TTS :-( I get sound from other sources and still
get prompted when selecting the TTS options but when I then tab around no
TTS is heard - which I hadn't tried testing this now!

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 15 February 2011 16:31
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Active X changes in web browsers

The only one I've ever had to change is 'Initialise and script Active X
Controls not marked as safe for scripting'. Pretty certain about that. The
ActiveX control in question is the Microsoft SAPI one, and it's part of
windows: it doesn't need downloading. Why they can't mark it as safe beats
me: why shouldn't Microsoft software distributed as part of a Microsoft OS
running in a Microsoft browser be anything other than completely safe?

;-)

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 15 February 2011 16:28
To: 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Active X changes in web browsers

I'm wondering if one setting prompts for the control if it's already
installed and the other (the unsigned one) prompts for it to download if
it's not already available? I just seem to recall having to change that
setting in order to get it to work on presentation machines when delivering
training. However I could be wrong as it's often a last minute thing to try
to get working before a training session and often on machines that have all
the settings locked down. Not sure I can properly test on my laptop because
it works already which obviously means that the control is already
available.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 15 February 2011 15:39
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Active X changes in web browsers

No, it's the one for "Initialise and script active x controls not marked as
safe for scripting" to prompt, at least for the TTS - were you thinking of
something else?

Unsigned ones should be left alone, I think.?

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 15 February 2011 15:29
To: 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Active X changes in web browsers

The main one is changing unsigned activex controls to prompt rather than
disabled. Alistair and I were talking about guidnace on this recently and
Alistair did a screenshot of his long scrolling list of settings - see
attached.

activex_settings.jpg

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Andy Epps
Sent: 15 February 2011 15:16
To: 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: [Xerte] Active X changes in web browsers

Hi all

I have recently rolled out our institutional version of Xerte and remember
Ron mentioning that you need to make some active x changes in your
institutions browsers. Can somebody please clarify what these changes are as
I remember that they make a significant improvement to the end users Xerte
experience.

Thanks

Andy 

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