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What Do Course Designers Need to Know About Building Accessible E-Learning? #304

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DavidAnderson
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4 years ago
Designing Accessible E-Learning #304: Challenge | Recap “Why do I keep hearing so much about accessibility?” That question came up in one of my recent training webinars, and it’s just one v...
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Hello!

Interesting topic. I'm working on an original demo for this week's challenge, but thought I'd share a discussion I had with the wonderful Katie Riggio over on the Storyline discussion board about making Drag and Drop interactions more accessible:

https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/issues-retrofitting-accessibility-functions-to-a-former-drag-and-drop-exercise

TL;DR Drag and Drops can present real obstacles for some users, so building a fallback interaction that can be accessed from the keyboard is good practice.

Here's my rejigged Star Wars themed demo, which now includes the option to simply Click as well as Drag.

https://bit.ly/elhc262c
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CarrieGauthier-
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4 years ago
This is such a good idea! Did you use separate slides to make the different interactions? Do you think learners would require some additional information about choosing the interaction type? Even something as simple as, "Don't care for drag and drop? Click below to change to a clickable interaction." or something along those lines. Or, do you find that most figure it out on their own?
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    Jonathan_Hill
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    4 years ago
    Hi Carrie - yes I used separate slides, with the option to toggle between click or drag on the first question. Once you choose 'click' and answer the first question, you can't revert back to 'drag' and are locked into the 'click' based slides.

    This was mostly an exercise in whether it was possible to convert a drag and drop into a simpler click based interaction and 'hack' the Focus Order to make it more user friendly.

    I would definitely consider adding a bit more guidance in the future, but most users grasped the click/drag toggle switch pretty quickly.