[Xerte] Re: Accessiblity queries

Tue May 29 10:31:12 BST 2012

Mind you, that is standalone xerte 2.18, not xot 1.8.

Op 29-5-2012 11:25, Julian Tenney schreef:
>
> Soon.
>
> There is a beta available for testing and comments at 
> http://www.xerte.org.uk/beta/xerte-beta.exe
>
> It's very nearly there.
>
> *From:*xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk 
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Nigel Irwin
> *Sent:* 28 May 2012 11:45
> *To:* Xerte discussion list
> *Subject:* [Xerte] Re: Accessiblity queries
>
> 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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