We are building a course with accessibility requirements and we cannot get the tab feature to work in the Course Menu so a learner can go to the menu and advance to a particular topic within the menu. The menu highlights and opens using the tab and enter keys, but when we tab to a topic, it does not highlight but turns grey and will not allow for us to hit the enter key and advance.
Are you using the built in Storyline menu from the player? If so, I believe when you say topic you're referring to the scene titles? You won't be able to open those, as they're just headers for the scenes and slides within them. You'd need to open a specific slide within the topic using the tab and enter key (or space bar).
If I'm not understanding your set up and what's occurring could you share a bit more information here with us?
Yes we are using the built in menu in Storyline. An yes the topics that I am referencing are the screen titles. What is confusing is that you can click on those scenes and advance to that scene in the menu drop down but the tab functionality is not available.
So if we have a simple 10 slide lesson that functionality is not available?
Ah - yes now I remember the trick! The space bar will open those ones...I don't know why it's different, but the space bar will actually work for both scene and slide titles, whereas the enter key works on the slide titles (and other player elements).
I just wanted to point out that the spacebar is used a lot in accessibility. For example, In Microsoft Word, lets say you wanted to change Line spacing using the keyboard:
Alt+H activates the Home tab PG activates the Paragraph dialog box Tab 9 times to get to the Underline style drop-down Spacebar (or down arrow) to open the Line Spacing drop-down Arrow down to select the line spacing Tab to close the drop-down Tab to OK to make it active Press Enter
I have the same issue as Patrick from 6 years ago. I'm using the built-in player menu in my storyline 360 file. This menu has to be accessible via keyboard navigation. This seems to be working fine in storyline preview mode but when I upload it to the LMS, it doesn't work.
Currently in scorm cloud, I can activate it by using tab and enter keys, but I can't navigate it using any of the keyboard keys you recommended. I believe your previous recommendation was to use the spacebar...it immediately launches whatever the defaulted highlighted link is. The arrow keys are not active and doesn't allow me to scroll through the menu links.
I'm happy to help! We've made many changes to Storyline 360 over the past year to cater to updated accessibility guidelines.
First, you'll want to make sure you're publishing the course before testing with keyboard navigation or even with a screen reader. Secondly, to move through the menu, you'll want to use the Tab key to move over to the slide in the Menu and then use the up/down arrows to navigate to a different slide.
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Hi Patrick and welcome to Heroes!
Are you using the built in Storyline menu from the player? If so, I believe when you say topic you're referring to the scene titles? You won't be able to open those, as they're just headers for the scenes and slides within them. You'd need to open a specific slide within the topic using the tab and enter key (or space bar).
If I'm not understanding your set up and what's occurring could you share a bit more information here with us?
Yes we are using the built in menu in Storyline. An yes the topics that I am referencing are the screen titles. What is confusing is that you can click on those scenes and advance to that scene in the menu drop down but the tab functionality is not available.
So if we have a simple 10 slide lesson that functionality is not available?
Hi Patrick,
Ah - yes now I remember the trick! The space bar will open those ones...I don't know why it's different, but the space bar will actually work for both scene and slide titles, whereas the enter key works on the slide titles (and other player elements).
Hi All,
I just wanted to point out that the spacebar is used a lot in accessibility. For example, In Microsoft Word, lets say you wanted to change Line spacing using the keyboard:
Alt+H activates the Home tab
PG activates the Paragraph dialog box
Tab 9 times to get to the Underline style drop-down
Spacebar (or down arrow) to open the Line Spacing drop-down
Arrow down to select the line spacing
Tab to close the drop-down
Tab to OK to make it active
Press Enter
Hi there,
I have the same issue as Patrick from 6 years ago. I'm using the built-in player menu in my storyline 360 file. This menu has to be accessible via keyboard navigation. This seems to be working fine in storyline preview mode but when I upload it to the LMS, it doesn't work.
Currently in scorm cloud, I can activate it by using tab and enter keys, but I can't navigate it using any of the keyboard keys you recommended. I believe your previous recommendation was to use the spacebar...it immediately launches whatever the defaulted highlighted link is. The arrow keys are not active and doesn't allow me to scroll through the menu links.
Is there another solution?
Looking for any additional input on your end.
Hello Metrix Rise 1!
I'm happy to help! We've made many changes to Storyline 360 over the past year to cater to updated accessibility guidelines.
First, you'll want to make sure you're publishing the course before testing with keyboard navigation or even with a screen reader. Secondly, to move through the menu, you'll want to use the Tab key to move over to the slide in the Menu and then use the up/down arrows to navigate to a different slide.
Here's a quick look at these steps in action.
Please let me know if you have additional questions!