Having created a glossary, I can tab around the screen to select the Glossary, and tab to highlight an item, but I cannot select it to display the definition. I also cannot scroll to reveal all glossary items.
This leads me to wonder if the glossary is accessible.
Hi Bryan! This was discussed previously, and it was found that the tab navigation only activates the menu and glossary as global items. This is unfortunate as you have to let JAWS read through the entire menu and or glossary instead of quickly tabbing through individual items.
It appears as though you still cannot tab through individual glossary term items. Tabbing, first through the slide content, then to the Glossary tab appears to activate the general terms area but doesn't appear to allow the user to navigate through the list of terms. Going to submit as a future enhancement.
Did you test out using the arrow keys to navigate up and down the list? I know that works in other parts of a list to allow you to get to individual sections.
Still definitely submit it as a feature - as those are incredibly helpful to our product team!
From what I can tell, the arrow keys don't move up and down the list of terms so I'm not sure how a keyboard user would activate a term to view its definition.
Thanks for responding - and I apologize, I was thinking of Storyline 360 as I knew we were able to implement a lot of accessibility updates and changes in there. Within Storyline 360 you should be able to tab to the glossary and then once expanded use the arrow keys to navigate up or down. The space bar action on a term would open the description/definition below.
Ah, I do see that now. If you tab to the Terms box (highlighting the whole box in yellow) then press the spacebar, the first term is selected with the definition below. Pressing down-arrow then spacebar activates the next term. Pressing up-arrow then spacebar moves back up the list.
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Hi Bryan! This was discussed previously, and it was found that the tab navigation only activates the menu and glossary as global items. This is unfortunate as you have to let JAWS read through the entire menu and or glossary instead of quickly tabbing through individual items.
It appears as though you still cannot tab through individual glossary term items. Tabbing, first through the slide content, then to the Glossary tab appears to activate the general terms area but doesn't appear to allow the user to navigate through the list of terms. Going to submit as a future enhancement.
Hi Kevin,
Did you test out using the arrow keys to navigate up and down the list? I know that works in other parts of a list to allow you to get to individual sections.
Still definitely submit it as a feature - as those are incredibly helpful to our product team!
From what I can tell, the arrow keys don't move up and down the list of terms so I'm not sure how a keyboard user would activate a term to view its definition.
Hi Kevin,
Thanks for responding - and I apologize, I was thinking of Storyline 360 as I knew we were able to implement a lot of accessibility updates and changes in there. Within Storyline 360 you should be able to tab to the glossary and then once expanded use the arrow keys to navigate up or down. The space bar action on a term would open the description/definition below.
Ah, I do see that now. If you tab to the Terms box (highlighting the whole box in yellow) then press the spacebar, the first term is selected with the definition below. Pressing down-arrow then spacebar activates the next term. Pressing up-arrow then spacebar moves back up the list.
Thanks for the follow-up.
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