Articulate Storyline & JAWS tips
Jun 18, 2019
By
Jody Zarn
Hi everyone,
I am looking for tips to getting JAWS to work well with Storyline and have a few questions for you all.
First of all, does JAWS in general work? I found that JAWS read tables quite well (especially since you can customize the order that the cells are read it), but are there any other tips to getting it to read well, besides using tables?
Is there a way to put a JAWS compatible progress bar in there so the user can tell how far they are in the course? Or slide numbers?
Do quiz questions work? I tried to insert a multiple choice question in --and couldn't get JAWS to read or select the options, so are there some tricks here?
I am looking for any tips and info you may have to make Storyline accessible. Thanks!
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I would not use tables if I were you as they need to be customized for JAWS to read them properly inside Storyline. The header/row correlation can get complicated on large tables. Technically for 508, tables should only be used for data and not for formatting text layouts.
For progress, we typically use slide numbers. JAWS reads them fine.
We have not had any issues with questions, other than some very complicated ones that we created. (which the answers were in a table format!) JAWS reads everything fine. If you are unfamiliar with JAWS there are keyboard cheat sheets available and other resources that show how to use it. Our internal testers have never had any issues with questions other than the tab order for the feedback boxes being occasionally incorrect.
Tips:
That's all I can think of off the top of my head. Good luck!
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