I create Rise learning for support/care workers in the disability sector. I was wondering if you can include one or two Rise scenario characters with visible disabilities.
You could at least give options to add a wheelchair, walking stick or cane to an existing scenario character. This will help greatly in the meantime.
WE would also like to see a variety of characters with disabilities - not just in a wheel chair - what about a sight impaired person with a handi-dog, or other aids. We need to create scenarios that are reflective of our communities. Thank you
Adding my vote here for this functionality as well. Please add more variety to your avatars from an accessibility perspective. A wheelchair/walker/cane etc. option would be GREAT. Understand that this may be impossible to add for current photo avatars, but please do include for any future avatars. You could also add these options in for the more cartoon/animated avatars now.
We develop a lot of training for medical providers on how to help patients with mobility issues, so being able to actually have them interact with scenarios including patients IN a wheelchair, as an example, would be really helpful. It's not realistic for everyone to be standing in these contexts.
Hey all! Thanks for letting us know this is important to you. We don't have any news yet and are still tracking requests for this. We'll let you know if we update the Content Library with more characters that would help!
We would like this as well as we work with the limb loss community. At the moment, we're unable to use the scenarios as none of the characters resemble our demographic.
I subscribe to this. I am creating e-learning content about inclusion of persons with disabilities and working around this lack of characters with disabilities is really time consuming, so it would help greatly!
Thank you everyone for sharing your thoughts with us. We don't have any updates yet, but we'll make sure to update this thread once we make changes that will help!
We don't have any updates on this yet but one of our community members, Matt Basuk has shared a workaround to upload your own custom character for scenarios. I hope this helps you!
I created this thread 2 years ago. Any updates on this please? We struggle to use Rise scenarios because of the absence of characters with visible disabilities. Please make this a priority. Thank you in advance!
Hi Sumant, we don't have this feature in our roadmap but I'll be sure to share updates here if anything changes. In the meantime, have you tried the workaround shared by Matt Basuk here? I hope this helps!
Hi Leo, that is very sad to hear. We are unable to use the scenario feature most of the time due to this. I hope you will consider this addition for the sake of everyone else who is wanting this feature.
Yes, I have seen the workaround, which is only applied until you re-export the course and then the changes are gone. Thanks anyway.
Perhaps something for your team to consider is to provide a scenario template in Storyline which works similar to a scenario block in Rise. That will help a lot. Thank you.
Hi Leo, that is very sad to hear. We are unable to use the scenario feature most of the time due to this. I hope you will consider this addition for the sake of everyone else who is wanting this feature.
Yes, I have seen the workaround, which is only applied until you re-export the course and then the changes are gone. Thanks anyway.
Perhaps something for your team to consider is to provide a scenario template in Storyline which works similar to a scenario block in Rise. That will help a lot. Thank you.
My organization will probably discontinue our subscription because of this. We work with individuals who have limb loss and there are no characters with prosthetic devices. There are 2 million individuals with limb loss in the US, please expand your roadmap to include these folks. It's long overdue.
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Hello, Sumant! Thank you for speaking up. I've tagged this discussion to be updated if we add more characters of varying abilities.
Thanks Crystal. Sounds good. I have also put in a Rise 360 feature request for this.
WE would also like to see a variety of characters with disabilities - not just in a wheel chair - what about a sight impaired person with a handi-dog, or other aids. We need to create scenarios that are reflective of our communities. Thank you
Adding my vote here for this functionality as well. Please add more variety to your avatars from an accessibility perspective. A wheelchair/walker/cane etc. option would be GREAT. Understand that this may be impossible to add for current photo avatars, but please do include for any future avatars. You could also add these options in for the more cartoon/animated avatars now.
We develop a lot of training for medical providers on how to help patients with mobility issues, so being able to actually have them interact with scenarios including patients IN a wheelchair, as an example, would be really helpful. It's not realistic for everyone to be standing in these contexts.
Thanks for adding some additional context, Bonnie and Ephraim. I don't have an update yet, but we're counting every voice.
Subscribing to this discussion.
YES please do include photographic characters with disabilities. I am an elearning developer for an NHS hospital so very relevant!
Me too! I'm developing a course about accessibility rights and it would be far more appropriate if the 'presenter' was from the community.
Hey all! Thanks for letting us know this is important to you. We don't have any news yet and are still tracking requests for this. We'll let you know if we update the Content Library with more characters that would help!
We would like to request this as well.
We would like this as well as we work with the limb loss community. At the moment, we're unable to use the scenarios as none of the characters resemble our demographic.
I subscribe to this. I am creating e-learning content about inclusion of persons with disabilities and working around this lack of characters with disabilities is really time consuming, so it would help greatly!
I agree! Thanks for already raising this everyone.
Essential. I am making scenarios and have to be more inclusive in the characters please add this feature
Has there been any progress made on this?
Thank you everyone for sharing your thoughts with us. We don't have any updates yet, but we'll make sure to update this thread once we make changes that will help!
Essential feature, a serious oversight by Articulate! At least let us upload our own characters.
Yes, I'm working on a scenario now for an apprenticeship course and need a character with a visible disability.
I created this thread 2 years ago. Any updates on this please? We struggle to use Rise scenarios because of the absence of characters with visible disabilities. Please make this a priority. Thank you in advance!
Hi Sumant, we don't have this feature in our roadmap but I'll be sure to share updates here if anything changes. In the meantime, have you tried the workaround shared by Matt Basuk here? I hope this helps!
Hi Leo, that is very sad to hear. We are unable to use the scenario feature most of the time due to this. I hope you will consider this addition for the sake of everyone else who is wanting this feature.
Yes, I have seen the workaround, which is only applied until you re-export the course and then the changes are gone. Thanks anyway.
Perhaps something for your team to consider is to provide a scenario template in Storyline which works similar to a scenario block in Rise. That will help a lot. Thank you.
Hi Leo, that is very sad to hear. We are unable to use the scenario feature most of the time due to this. I hope you will consider this addition for the sake of everyone else who is wanting this feature.
Yes, I have seen the workaround, which is only applied until you re-export the course and then the changes are gone. Thanks anyway.
Perhaps something for your team to consider is to provide a scenario template in Storyline which works similar to a scenario block in Rise. That will help a lot. Thank you.
My organization will probably discontinue our subscription because of this. We work with individuals who have limb loss and there are no characters with prosthetic devices. There are 2 million individuals with limb loss in the US, please expand your roadmap to include these folks. It's long overdue.