Looking for a quick and easy way to get your team up to speed on a new app? Check out this software tutorial I created using Rise 360! And if you want help creating your own software tutorial, check...
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Love this example and exactly what I'm looking for. Question: we've been using GIFs for very brief software demos but are now being told that GIFs are not considered accessible.
What is the Articulate team's approach to this? Thanks in advance!
What is the Articulate team's approach to this? Thanks in advance!
Karen—this is a great question! Here at Articulate (and in the E-Learning Heroes community), we love using GIFs, too! As a best practice, for any GIFs that are longer than 5 seconds, you need to give learners (or readers) a way to pause the media. In newer ELH articles, you'll notice that our GIFs are now looping videos (here's an example article: https://community.articulate.com/articles/7-reasons-stakeholders-love-review-360). You should be able to use any screen recording software (Peek 360 is perfect for this!) to record your "GIF," and then upload your video to a video-hosting platform where you can choose relevant settings (like looping the video).
I hope this is helpful! In the meantime, we'll make sure to update the GIFs in this article and example project :) Let us know if you have any other questions!
I hope this is helpful! In the meantime, we'll make sure to update the GIFs in this article and example project :) Let us know if you have any other questions!
- Thanks for that, Madison! We're using Rise, so how would we do looping videos? Would we have to use Vimeo, for example, to do that in Rise? Currently, we use Camtasia to record demos so I'll look into that.
Does Rise have this ability?
Thanks again! It's the right road to go down if we want to have gifs AND be a11y!- You can use the multimedia Embed block in Rise 360 to host a looping video!
- Awesome! And thank you, I'm going to try it!