[Xerte] Re: Xerte online toolkits and Jaws

Julian Tenney Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
Wed Jun 13 12:46:03 BST 2012


I think it would just work (Mostly) because right now most of the strings spoken are coming from the xml.

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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: 13 June 2012 11:55
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Xerte online toolkits and Jaws

http://code.google.com/p/xerte/

as a heads up

Xerte 3 exists, and there will soon be a HTML 5 player as well

*curious question*

How would we handle accessibility of a screen reader for possibly
multiple languages?

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Ian.Lindsay <Ian.Lindsay at open.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>
> We've been doing a lot of testing here to see how we can improve Xerte
> behaviour with screen readers (mainly Jaws). Many thanks for the help when
> my colleague has posted previously, and for the updated engine file which
> seemed to solve quite a few of the issues. I wasn't sure where Xerte was on
> the open/closed source side of things but was wondering whether I might be
> able to take a look through the source file for this (an .fla file,
> presumably?) and see if there's any further improvements I could make?
> Anything we found we would of course share with the Xerte community.
>
>
>
> Kind Regards,
>
>
>
> Ian Lindsay
>
> Web Developer
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> Open University Library
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