Accessibility Options in Storyline
Aug 31, 2023
Hi all
I'm adding some accessibility options on my course. Currently, a learner chooses an option (light / dark / blue background) at the beginning of the course, and that then puts them on to the appropriate scene. I have basically duplicated the course in three scenes; one with a light background, one with dark and one with blue. Same content but different colours for text and background.
Is there a better way of doing this? I've seen people have menus built within their course and the learner can select from there and it will change all the text and slides rather than switching scenes? They can switch it too. At the moment on my course, they would have to go back to the slide with the choices to change the background.
I did try out buttons which change the state of a text box, for example, but then the next slide 'resets' back to the original. Therefore a student would have to change the background to black on every slide.
Any advice would be great! Thankyou
3 Replies
Hi Ollie,
Happy to help!
You can make use of Slide Master Layouts and variables to control the appearance of the background without have to duplicate entire scenes.
I've attached a sample project file that let's learners select their preferred background color before proceeding to the course. Let me know if this is the design that you were looking for and I'll be glad to discuss any technical details regarding how I built the file with you!
While I have you, I wanted to share this helpful article on how to build accessible courses in Storyline 360 if you're interested.
Hi Joe
Thanks for your response and the file which is useful. However, I don't understand how you got to that I'm afraid. I tried to replicate it but couldn't work out how you did it!
Ideally, I'd like to have a menu accessible throughout the course where a learner would be able to change the slide colour / text colour on demand. And this would change the slide colour throughout. If you know what I mean?
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated!
Hi Ollie,
These three triggers control which value is assigned to the bg variable. Clicking on any of these shapes in the slides will assign a different value to the variable which would in turn control the background color of the slide.
In the Slide Master layout, I placed a white colored shape as a background and then added states to it. Whenever this shape changes states, the background color changes along with it:
You can apply the same steps to create text boxes that also change states based on trigger actions. Note that for text boxes, you'll need to setup the triggers for each slide rather than relying on a Slide Master layout to apply the changes.
Hope this helps!