Accessibility issue:Articulate courses as Embedded Web Objects not seen by screenreader
Feb 20, 2017
I am trying to ensure that a new web resource we are developing is accessible. Part of the course uses presentations, activities etc. made in Articulate Storyline 2. These are published in HTML5 and added to the course via CourseBuilder as Embedded Web Resources. When checking the site with the NVDA free screen-reader software on FireFox and Google Chrome, the screenreader will recognise that there is an object there and read the title (which is what I was told needed to happen to make to content visible to screenreaders) but the content is skipped entirely. How can this be resolved? Is it an issue with the settings when publishing the document (like how a PDF needs the tags checked manually and fixed up) or are Articulate documents only accessible when viewed through Articulate Player?
Link to web resource at:
www.auckland.ac.nz/writeatuni
Articulate documents are at
0.3
2.7
2.11
3.8
3.11
4.6
4.7
4.11
4.14
5.1
and the webcomic (viewable through clicking a link under any of the comic pages, for example 1.1).
3 Replies
Hi there Monica!
Thanks for your question. Although the NVDA screen reader will work with many aspects of Storyline content, it isn't officially supported at this time. Storyline supports JAWS 16 and later with Internet Explorer 11 and later (Flash output only).
Hi Alyssa, thank you for letting me know. Accessibility is important to us, so knowing exactly how to format our course for accessibility and which screen reader and browser to recommend is useful!
You're welcome Monica! Let us know if you have any further questions. :)
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