[Xerte] Re: Xerte default engine

[RGN Meegama]

Thank you guys for the extremely helpful answers. I think now I can ask my
users to  stick to HTML5 format.


Gayan

On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Alistair McNaught <
Alistair.McNaught at heacademy.ac.uk> wrote:

>  In the meantime you can go a good way to getting the "in your face"
> accessibility options for learners who don't know how to change colours and
> fonts in the browser by
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> ·         using Google Chrome to view the learning objects and
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> ·         installing the HighContrast Chrome plugin.
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> ·         Installing the ChromeSpeak plug-in.
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> With these in place the learner can change colour schemes by clicking
> theHighContrast button and selecting their preference.
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> They can also select text, right click it and choose to speak selected
> text to listen to the text. If you are a post 16 learning provider in
> England and have the free high quality TechDis voices installed on your
> system this can add significant functionality for print impaired people. In
> Scotland the free Scottish voices are also available.
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> Screenshot showing BBC website in Chrome with High contrast plug-in enabled
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> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Julian Tenney
> *Sent:* 02 August 2013 09:20
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> *To:* Xerte discussion list
> *Subject:* [Xerte] Re: Xerte default engine
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> I’d still advise you stick with the HHTML5 output. We may add that
> functionality at some point. We chose not to build it in, because it was
> felt that the browser offers the accessibility functionality, and that the
> LOs are more accessible in HTML5 than they are in the old flash format.
> Those controls were built in to address issues with Flash accessibility,
> which don’t exist in the HTML5 interface, as many of them can be controlled
> through the browser.
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> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [
> mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>]
> *On Behalf Of *RGN Meegama
> *Sent:* 02 August 2013 09:14
> *To:* Xerte discussion list
> *Subject:* [Xerte] Re: Xerte default engine
>
>
>
> because the learning object created by html5 (javascript) doesn't offer us
> the facility to change color, font size, etc.
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>  On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Julian Tenney <
> Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
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> Why do you want to?
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> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Tom Reijnders
> *Sent:* 01 August 2013 08:55
> *To:* Xerte discussion list
> *Subject:* [Xerte] Re: Xerte default engine
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> Not without changing code.
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> Op 31-7-2013 13:01, RGN Meegama schreef:
>
> Hi all, how can we set the configuration of a Xerte installation  to set
> the default engine for projects to Flash.
>
>
> Gayan
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