Xerte has several page types that can accommodate video clips, making it ideal for adding sign language video to clarify tasks and content. Many page types lend themselves to visually rich learning materials and the Navigator pages encourage content authors to break up dense text to manageable chunks. JISC TechDIs is currently involved in a project with City Lit in London to create Deaf friendly e-safety resources for adult deaf learners.
Xerte has very good keyboard accessibility with all features and functions accessible by tab, space bar and arrow keys.
Different browsers may behave differently with different pages so if you find a problem we've not yet spotted please report it to the Accessibility part of the forum.
Xerte is designed to be as accessible as possible to end users and many Xerte page types are accessible to screenreader users but it varies with the page type, the screenreader and the device the objects are viewed on.
Most page types are compatible with screenreader technologies.
Xerte offers many benefits for learners with dyslexia these include:
* text to speech (TTS) compatibility with free and commercial TTS software.
* a range of colour and font options
* a wide range of page types designed for use with rich media
Benefits for visually impaired people include:
* the font size on Xerte objects can be optimised on creation (when the author sets the default size).
* the user can choose different font sizes (5 on the Flash output, many more via browser settings on the HTML5 output).
Are you fed up of all your learning materials being printed handouts? Are all your tutor's online resources just "paper behind glass" without interactivity or self testing opportunities? If so, why not ask to your student council / student union to lobby your learning provider to create richer learning resources using Xerte OnlineToolkits?
