I'm in the process of revising an (inherited) eLearning which has multiple slides that display an image of a page from a manual - often a form - while the narrator explains how to use it. Some slides also use markers that zoom into certain sections of the page when selected and provide additional descriptions.
Any suggestions for how to make these types of slides screen reader friendly? Would adding alt text with a detailed description of each form be sufficient? Or replacing each image of a manual page with an embedded PDF (displayed as a web object)?
One final note - The manual referenced on the slides is included in the eLearning's "Resources", so all course-takers will have access to it, but we'd like to give learners a similar experience at the slide-level too.
[Disclaimer - I'm quite new to Storyline 360 so apologies if there's a very obvious solution I'm missing here!]
Hello Carrie, what I can think of to give one heck of an experience for a learner when viewing such slides is to highlight parts of the image that is being discussed by the narrator as he/she explains how to use it. When the narrator talks about a certain field on the form and gives a sample entry on that field, display a sample text on that field so the learner can see an actual sample of what the narrator has given.
You can do so by creating a sample on another layer, and time it so that the layer is shown while the narrator gives a sample entry on a certain field. You'd have to experiment with the timing when the different layers of highlights and samples appear while the narrator speaks. A tip that can help is to double-click the audio file of the narrator so you can see when he/she says which.
Since it is a form, the sample may just be a text box. While the highlights may be in a form of a rectangle formatted so that it has no fill.
And as you've thought of, you may add a web object of that form to give the learner the option to download.
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Hello Carrie, what I can think of to give one heck of an experience for a learner when viewing such slides is to highlight parts of the image that is being discussed by the narrator as he/she explains how to use it. When the narrator talks about a certain field on the form and gives a sample entry on that field, display a sample text on that field so the learner can see an actual sample of what the narrator has given.
You can do so by creating a sample on another layer, and time it so that the layer is shown while the narrator gives a sample entry on a certain field. You'd have to experiment with the timing when the different layers of highlights and samples appear while the narrator speaks. A tip that can help is to double-click the audio file of the narrator so you can see when he/she says which.
Since it is a form, the sample may just be a text box. While the highlights may be in a form of a rectangle formatted so that it has no fill.
And as you've thought of, you may add a web object of that form to give the learner the option to download.
Thanks so much for these detailed suggestions, Ian!