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In Case You Missed It (ICYMI): Accessibility Updates in Q3 2025

Welcome to our Q3 2025 update!

This quarter brought big steps forward in accessibility, localization, and learner experience across Rise and Storyline. From new focus order controls and audio enhancements to expanded screen reader support and additional languages, every update helps make course creation and learning more inclusive for everyone.

Our community keeps growing, too. This quarter, we welcomed 95 new members, bringing us to 753 people who care about making things more accessible. We’re so glad you’re part of it.

Let’s take a look at what’s new this quarter!

Product Updates

Rise

  • New: Use the custom block focus order panel to set keyboard and screen reader order independently of object order.
  • New: 9 new languages have been added to Articulate Localization.
  • Enhanced: Windows Narrator and Magnifier are now officially supported in published courses, giving learners more ways to engage with content.
  • Enhanced: Chart blocks are now keyboard and desktop screen reader accessible.
  • Enhanced: Learners can adjust the volume and mute audio wherever it appears in training.
  • Enhanced: While authoring, your browser tab updates to show the current lesson title for better context and accessibility.
  • Enhanced: Audio player transcripts are now keyboard and screen-reader accessible.
  • Enhanced: In the custom block, add alt text to objects, object groups, and the canvas.
  • Enhanced: Add audio transcripts to audio objects in custom blocks.

Storyline

  • Enhanced: We boosted the accessibility checker's performance to keep even the largest projects running smoothly and added sort order options for easier navigation.
  • Enhanced: Windows Narrator and Magnifier are now officially supported in published courses, giving learners more ways to engage with content.
  • Enhanced: Localization added support for 9 new languages—Khmer, Lao, Luxembourgish, Maori, Nepali, Nyanja, Samoan, Tetum, and Tigrinya. These languages are now available to everyone as text label options.
  • Enhanced: Screen readers provide richer context for multiple choice and drop-down questions, math equations, and the player seekbar, ensuring learners can navigate and track progress more intuitively.
  • Enhanced: Player controls, resources, and glossary terms remain fully accessible when resizing the browser or zooming up to 400%, giving all learners a smoother experience.
  • Enhanced: The accessibility checker now displays scene thumbnails, making it quicker to identify and fix scene-title issues.
  • Fixed: Screen readers ignored the search results in the player menu.
  • Fixed: Screen readers didn't always announce the visited state of buttons or shapes.
  • Fixed: Custom alt text added to buttons, radio buttons, text boxes, and checkboxes couldn't be changed or reset to the default.
  • Fixed: Checkmarks on correct responses now provide text alternatives to conform with WCAG 1.1.1.
  • Fixed: Closed captions from multiple audio files stacked on top of each other when using the seekbar.
  • Fixed: Screen readers didn't announce the default alt text for text-entry fields.

Other Updates

New Articles

Updated Articles

Training

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