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JAWS Reading Lists by type
One of our 508 reviewers indicated JAWS is not reading the list as a type.
For example, they are expecting JAWS screen reader to read a bulleted list as "Bulleted list" vs "Numbered List."
Is this how it is done?
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1. Make sure you are using Modern text (select Upgrade project text and Display Accessible Text by Default). Storyline 360: Accessible Semantic Formatting
2. Make sure you don't have anything in the Alt text area. Open the Focus Order for that text box and view your Alt text. If anything is in the Alt text, JAWS will skip the semantic formatting for that line.My understanding is that Storyline 360 now incorporates modern text, so we should not have to update, unless it is from an older version. Is that not correct? 🤔
That is correct...I was just covering all bases.
HI BarbaraJacobs-1 this is the kind of result you should expect. This is using JAWS 2025, but will work with less recent versions of JAWS, NVDA and Windows Narrator.
If you don't get these results, are you able to post a slide with an example to this page. I can then test the page using my screen readers and determine whether your published output is accessible or not.
Can you confirm if text marked as H1,H2 etc is correctly identified by screen readers as "Heading level 1", "Heading level 2" etc.
Thanks, Sam! I'll check the headings too.
I assume they are hearing: list with [# of items] and then bullet [item] or number [item].
I tested structure on the list examples provided by W3C and experienced the same behavior, so I would say it's expected that it does not say "bulleted list" or "numbered list."
I'd share the link with your reviewers to take a look (well, listen 😉).
