Hi, We're getting ready to produce a 508 compliant course which has audio on each screen. Can anyone tell me how JAWS works where storyline audio is involved?
I'm not sure I understand the question - the audio should still play, in addition to whatever JAWS is reading off the slide. I'm not an expert on 508 compliance or how to set this up based on particular users, but if you're able to share more about what your needs are and your course set up hopefully someone from the community will chime in.
Section 508 is a pain and long learning curve because the issues vary by course design.
This is our first course using Storyline that needs to be 508 compliant. The pages are being read with narration. I was trying to figure out if I need to "turn off" the storyline audio so JAWS wouldn't try to read the same text the narrator is reading. We're looking into an answer. If I figure it out I'll post a note.
It may be as easy as setting a variable up front to disable all the audio in storyline and then putting up a initial slide for the student to select whether they're using a JAWS reader or not.
I was just curious whether anyone else already had a solution.
I think you'll likely want to look at a way to "disable" the audio if you'll also have narration from JAWS reading out the course text. As you mentioned, 508 compliance is very course specific, so hopefully someone in the community who has set up a similar example will be able to chime in here.
This thread is a bit older, so I'm not certain that Bob is still subscribed, but you may want to message him directly using the "contact me" button on his profile to see if he's able to share any additional information with you.
Hi Ashley! Being Staff and more knowledgable about the product than perhaps other contributors, could you answer my question? How would one disable the audio narration in Storyline 2 to utilize JAWS?
There isn't a function to automatically disable it based on using JAWS, but what I've seen most users look at implementing is a button/prompt to the user at the beginning of the course to ask them if they'd like to turn off the audio and then it's controlled at the individual slide level with a trigger based on how the user answered. Here is one example of a toggle button, an example of how to set it up on a slide master, and this general article that'll use the true/false variable set up.
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HI Bob,
I'm not sure I understand the question - the audio should still play, in addition to whatever JAWS is reading off the slide. I'm not an expert on 508 compliance or how to set this up based on particular users, but if you're able to share more about what your needs are and your course set up hopefully someone from the community will chime in.
Section 508 is a pain and long learning curve because the issues vary by course design.
This is our first course using Storyline that needs to be 508 compliant. The pages are being read with narration. I was trying to figure out if I need to "turn off" the storyline audio so JAWS wouldn't try to read the same text the narrator is reading. We're looking into an answer. If I figure it out I'll post a note.
It may be as easy as setting a variable up front to disable all the audio in storyline and then putting up a initial slide for the student to select whether they're using a JAWS reader or not.
I was just curious whether anyone else already had a solution.
Hi Bob,
I think you'll likely want to look at a way to "disable" the audio if you'll also have narration from JAWS reading out the course text. As you mentioned, 508 compliance is very course specific, so hopefully someone in the community who has set up a similar example will be able to chime in here.
That's what I was hoping for. And worse case, after getting a bit bruised on this project, I may have the answer for the rest of the community. ; )
Were you able to find the answer-how to disable Storyline audio narration when using JAWS? We have the same question.
Hi Denise,
This thread is a bit older, so I'm not certain that Bob is still subscribed, but you may want to message him directly using the "contact me" button on his profile to see if he's able to share any additional information with you.
Hi Ashley! Being Staff and more knowledgable about the product than perhaps other contributors, could you answer my question? How would one disable the audio narration in Storyline 2 to utilize JAWS?
Hi Denise,
There isn't a function to automatically disable it based on using JAWS, but what I've seen most users look at implementing is a button/prompt to the user at the beginning of the course to ask them if they'd like to turn off the audio and then it's controlled at the individual slide level with a trigger based on how the user answered. Here is one example of a toggle button, an example of how to set it up on a slide master, and this general article that'll use the true/false variable set up.
Hope that helps get you started!
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