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In Case You Missed It (ICYMI): Accessibility Updates in Q4 2025

 

Welcome to our Q4 2025 update!

This quarter, we focused on making accessibility easier to create and better to experience. Across Rise and Storyline, we introduced new AI-powered tools for captions, alt text, and narration, expanded options for accessible design, and fixed issues that affected keyboard and screen reader users. Together, these updates help authors save time while building learning experiences that work well for people using a wide range of assistive technologies.

We're excited to see our community grow. This quarter, 71 new members joined, bringing us to 824 people who care about accessibility and inclusion. We're happy you're here with us.

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

Product Updates

Rise

  • New: Boost your video's accessibility with AI-generated captions you can easily fine-tune using an intuitive built-in editor.
  • New: Add audio to scenario blocks for content that's even more interactive content.
  • Enhanced: Use the Bullet Style options in the text formatting toolbar to modify the size and color of bullets and numbers in lists.
  • Enhanced: Modify the spacing between buttons with this convenient button stack setting.

Storyline

  • New (Beta): Easily translate text-to-speech audio and AI-generated narrations with Articulate Localization to make your content more inclusive.
  • Enhanced: Automatically generate alt text for your assets all at once, then edit or finalize each description right from the accessibility checker.
  • Enhanced: Save time and boost accessibility by automatically generating AI captions for uncaptioned audio and video files when you import a Storyline 360 project.
  • Enhanced: Streamline your captioning process with AI Assistant. Generate captions automatically when you import media with flexible settings to fit your workflow.
  • Enhanced: Quickly improve accessibility by generating captions for course audio and video content in one step.
  • Enhanced: Maximize efficiency while ensuring accessibility by generating captions after recording audio in Storyline 360.
  • Enhanced: You can now add alt text to your cover photos to improve accessibility.
  • Enhanced: Improve caption readability on any background by turning text shadow on or off.
  • Enhanced: You can now chat with AI Assistant to generate text-to-speech narration from your slide notes in addition to your slide content or script.
  • Fixed: Marker title text disappeared when turning accessible text off.
  • Fixed: The accessibility checker incorrectly reported missing text styles on slide master layouts even when they were already applied.
  • Fixed: Textboxes displayed scrollbars that couldn't be accessed with the keyboard when users enabled a text-spacing browser extension in Google Chrome.
  • Fixed: Keyboard navigation didn't work for web objects on layers, and screen readers didn't announce their alt text.
  • Fixed: NVDA screen reader users could access disabled buttons through arrow-key navigation.
  • Fixed: Screen readers inconsistently announced the slide title and state.
  • Fixed: Windows Narrator added an unwanted description before the slide title.
  • Fixed: The focus indicator didn't work correctly for hyperlinks and images with zoom enabled.
  • Fixed: A scrollbar didn't appear as expected when text overflowed.
  • Fixed: The text for the keyboard shortcuts toggle didn't meet color contrast guidelines.
  • Fixed: The focus indicator didn't highlight the volume control when users viewed videos in full-screen mode.

Other Updates

New Articles

Updated Articles

We also hosted accessibility stations at the Articuland Summit and DevLearn, where we had the chance to talk directly with many of you about accessibility. We shared our Accessibility Quick-Start Guide, a concise course designed to help you understand the basics of accessibility, apply best practices, and know where to go next.

Ronnie_Pilman at DevLearnTaylorMaruca and LeslieMcKerchie at Articuland Summit

We’d love to hear from you. What update caught your attention this quarter? Are you planning to join us at axe-con 2026? Let us know in the comments below.

 

 

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