I have created an e-learning package with audio on each slide which starts with the start of the timeline. I have added keyboard controls for navigation to each slide but have now been asked, by a severely visually-impaired learner, to add a pause/play keyboard shortcut for the audio.
I notice that there is a pause/play icon on the player that can be clicked with a mouse, but I can't find an associated keyboard shortcut in Storyline 360 that I can enable.
I don't want to have to add a variable and two triggers to every slide if I can help it because there are so many slides.
If your learner is using the TAB button through the course, they would be able to press "space" when the video is lightboxed. This would pause/play the video.
Unfortunately not as the learners I am thinking of are blind and wouldn't be able to see when focus moves. I've managed to sort out the rest of the package so that it's fully accessible without vision at all - and can actually be used with the monitor off, but they've asked for the pause function to be added.
I can add a trigger to play/pause specific media on each slide but it would be so much easier if I could just assign a keyboard shortcut to the player control. I understand this is possible in other Articulate software - I've seen an article about for Articulate Presenter, for example - but it doesn't look like it's going to be possible in Storyline. Ah well, I'd better start editing the slides again lol.
You're correct, this isn't a feature in Storyline, but I'll be sure to add your voice to the request we currently have on making this possible.
I'm sorry this takes extra work for you. We're pushing to ease the burden on developers and wanted to point you to this conversation in case you haven't seen it!
It would be a great addition when it comes and it's great to how much work is being done to improve accessibility - and help us at this end do the same.
Great news! We just released another update for Storyline 360 and included a few important fixes and new features you'll see in the release notes here.
The item you'll be interested in is how we added more keyboard shortcuts for learners, including play/pause, previous, next, and submit. Plus, learners can now use the ESC key to close the shortcuts screen.
Just launch the Articulate 360 desktop app on your computer and click the Update button for each application. Details here.
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Hi Chris!
If your learner is using the TAB button through the course, they would be able to press "space" when the video is lightboxed. This would pause/play the video.
Would this help?
Hi Lauren
Unfortunately not as the learners I am thinking of are blind and wouldn't be able to see when focus moves. I've managed to sort out the rest of the package so that it's fully accessible without vision at all - and can actually be used with the monitor off, but they've asked for the pause function to be added.
I can add a trigger to play/pause specific media on each slide but it would be so much easier if I could just assign a keyboard shortcut to the player control. I understand this is possible in other Articulate software - I've seen an article about for Articulate Presenter, for example - but it doesn't look like it's going to be possible in Storyline. Ah well, I'd better start editing the slides again lol.
Hi Chris,
You're correct, this isn't a feature in Storyline, but I'll be sure to add your voice to the request we currently have on making this possible.
I'm sorry this takes extra work for you. We're pushing to ease the burden on developers and wanted to point you to this conversation in case you haven't seen it!
Hi Ren
It would be a great addition when it comes and it's great to how much work is being done to improve accessibility - and help us at this end do the same.
Many thanks.
This is a huge issue, and we'd all like to have a timeline for development on this. This is fundamental accessibility functionality here, Articulate.