[Xerte] Re: Accessiblity queries

[Nigel Irwin]

Any idea of release date for 1.8 please.
 

Regards, Nigel 
IT Training and Support Co-ordinator 

01444 884906

 

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Alistair
McNaught
Sent: 28 May 2012 11:44
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Accessiblity queries



Hi, we do have a summary in draft format for most of those other
templates but there are some important accessibility improvements in the
Xerte Toolkits 1.8 release and so I'm holding off publishing the
accessibility summary. Several accessibility issues that were identified
on a number of pages (eg magnification of text in navigator subpages
breaking the learning object and inheritance of colour changes to
subpages) should be remedied in the next release so the final guidance
will come when I've had a chance to see the final release after the
agreed improvements have been implemented. It should be much shorter
guidance too because there will be fewer accessibility niggles.

 

Alistair

 

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of K.L.Baker
Sent: 28 May 2012 10:05
To: 'xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk'
Cc: 'k.l.baker at open.ac.uk'
Subject: [Xerte] Accessiblity queries

 

Hello

 

We are using Xerte to develop some skills materials at the Open
University Library. I am currently investigating the accessibility of
the different Xerte templates. I found a useful summary of the Text and
Media templates here:
http://www.jisctechdis.ac.uk/techdis/pages/detail/online_resources/Xerte
_learner_needs

 

I was wondering if there are similar summaries for the other template
types?

 

I've also been looking at keyboard accessibility. Many of the templates
do seem to be accessible using just the keyboard, but I was just
wondering why the key used to activate links etc is often the space bar
instead of the return key. I thought that the return key was standard -
is there a way to change this within Xerte so that the return key is
used instead of the space bar?

 

If you know of any other information which might be helpful in terms of
accessibility checking of Xerte please let me know.

 

Best regards

 

Kirsty Baker

Information Literacy Specialist

Open University Library

01908 (8) 58478

 

 

 


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