Rise 360: Intro to Digital Accessibility for Instructional Designers

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ReginaGilson
Community Member
3 years ago
Hello, and thanks for this example. I tried the "Send yourself a copy" link, and it just spins on my dashboard with "No Title". Any tips? I would love to adapt this example for an upcoming project. Regards, Gina
- AllisonLaMotte
  Staff
  3 years ago
  Sorry about that! It's working for me now, is it working on your end as well?
ClaudeAbbott-b5
Community Member
3 years ago
I actually let the file keep loading... and it took a while but it loaded completely!. Give it a while, and go back and check and you should see it on your dashboard.
- AllisonLaMotte
  Staff
  3 years ago
  Oh good! Glad it finally loaded. I'm not sure why it would be so slow though, since it's a pretty short course. Very strange!
KarenDrummey1
Community Member
3 years ago
Thanks for sharing. It's a helpful course. One suggestion I would make is the text is a serif font and sans-serif fonts are better for accessibility for people with reading disabilities and general reading online.
- AllisonLaMotte
  Staff
  3 years ago
  That's a really great point, Karen! I will update that immediately :) Thank you
JackieMcHendry
Community Member
3 years ago
Hello - This course never loads, it spins with a message 'Your course is loading' . I am using Google Chrome
- AllisonLaMotte
  Staff
  3 years ago
  Hi Jackie,
  I just tested it and it's working for me. Can you try again? Could it be due to a slow internet connection?
AmandaPoley
Community Member
3 years ago
2. Use Contrasting Colors

Another simple thing you can do to ensure all your learners can read and interact easily with your content is to choose colors for foreground objects—like text and buttons—that stand out from the background. The easiest way to do this is by measuring the contrast—or the difference in brightness—between your foreground and background colors using an accessible color palette builder like this one.

But Rise won't allow for these adjustments. It picks the font colors for you.
- AllisonLaMotte
  Staff
  3 years ago
  Hi Amanda!
  You can adjust the font colors in most of the blocks. You can also choose a custom accent color.
AmandaPoley
Community Member
3 years ago
Also some of the activates like the flash cards are not accessessible. Any plans to make that better?
- AllisonLaMotte
  Staff
  3 years ago
  Yes! It's on the roadmap: https://articulate.com/support/article/Articulate-360-Feature-Roadmap :) Stay tuned
ClaudeAbbott-b5
Community Member
3 years ago
I just tried sending it to myself, and I get the same problem... it just spins, saying it's loading.... My internet connection is fine, I'm using Chrome. Any suggestions on how to get this template? I really like it.
- AllisonLaMotte
  Staff
  3 years ago
  Can you try again, Claude? I've had a few people test these links and no one seems to be having this issue so I'm not sure what to do here. Sorry!
JessicaEdwar812
Community Member
3 years ago
This course never loads. I am connect to our internal network, so internet speed is not an issue.
- AllisonLaMotte
  Staff
  3 years ago
  Can you try again in another browser? I'm not able to reproduce this issue so I'm struggling to find a solution. Sorry about that!
BenjaminWeil
Community Member
3 years ago
Thank you for this nice introduction Allison. The sad fact is that you made it with Rise... which doesn't allow to build WCAG compliant courses, and the drag n' drop activity is for instance not accessible :-/
- AllisonLaMotte
  Staff
  3 years ago
  Hi Benjamin,
  While it's true that not every single block type in Rise 360 is currently WCAG compliant, we've made a lot of progress on accessibility and are continuing to work on it. You'll notice that it's on the roadmap to fix that: https://articulate.com/support/article/Articulate-360-Feature-Roadmap :) Stay tuned
  
  Here's our VPAT which explains where we're at: https://articulate.com/fr-FR/support/article/Rise-360-Accessibility-Conformance-Report-VPAT You can follow along with our Rise 360 accessibility journey mire in detail here: https://articulate.com/support/article/Rise-360-Our-Accessibility-Journey Thanks for your understanding and patience as we work to make accessibility improvements. :)
  
  Also, you'll notice that I updated the course replace the drag-and-drop with a multiple response question in the meantime -- thank you for pointing that out!
  - BenjaminWeil
    Community Member
    3 years ago
    Hi Allison, thank you for your swift and detailed reply. I indeed noticed that much progress has been made on Rise accessibility compliance, which is quite a good new. Keep up the good work dear fellow Lyon dweller !
- LouiseJohns-0a2
  Community Member
  3 years ago
  I attempted this interaction with my keyboard and was able to use tab and shift+tab to navigate the interaction, would this work for your users?
LouiseJohns-0a2
Community Member
3 years ago
Sorry to point out a spelling mistake, but section 4 of the Check your knowledge section, image has "Now compare our response to ours", Should this be compare "your"
- AllisonLaMotte
  Staff
  3 years ago
  Thanks Louise! I actually just decided to get rid of that interaction entirely.

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