I want screen readers to read text objects, so I've made them visible to accessibility tools. When I test a published course using NVDA, however, text boxes do not receive focus and are not read. Any suggestions?
I've been testing, and this appears to be a bug in the current version of Articulate 360. The same storyline file that produced a course with screen-reader-accessible text a couple years ago won't publish a course with screen-reader-accessible text now.
Hi Eric, and welcome to the E-Learning Heroes Community! ✨
Thanks so much for reaching out about this issue with your screenreader skipping objects within your course. I understand your frustration and I'm happy to help!
Good news! Today, we just released Storyline 360 Update 74 (Build 3.74.30180.0) which included the fix for the bug where screenreaders skip objects on succeeding layers.
Now all you need to do is update Storyline 360 in your Articulate 360 desktop app!
If you have additional questions, don't hesitate to reach out in this discussion or in a support case.
I'm facing the same issue, with keyboard navigation skipping the text content, both if I use the arrows or the tab (which correctly detects the clickable items only), what should I do to have the readers finding the text? All text is in the focus order in the correct position. Thank you for any suggestion!
Yes, I tried with the Windows reader (windows+ctrl+enter) and it reads everything in the screen (like, in the preview link, the title of the lesson on top of the screen) but the text in the lesson, Thanks for your reply
Hi Phil, thank you again, you're right cause it seems the reader works fine when the lesson is uploaded into the LMS, that's good news for sure, but it also means the test of the accessibility features should always be done there, and not on published review versions.
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I've been testing, and this appears to be a bug in the current version of Articulate 360. The same storyline file that produced a course with screen-reader-accessible text a couple years ago won't publish a course with screen-reader-accessible text now.
Hi Eric, and welcome to the E-Learning Heroes Community! ✨
Thanks so much for reaching out about this issue with your screenreader skipping objects within your course. I understand your frustration and I'm happy to help!
The text box that you have incorporated is not considered an interactive object when using a screenreader. What you'll want to do is navigate using the up and down arrows for the text to be read.
If you have any other questions, please let us know!
Hello Eric!
Good news! Today, we just released Storyline 360 Update 74 (Build 3.74.30180.0) which included the fix for the bug where screenreaders skip objects on succeeding layers.
Now all you need to do is update Storyline 360 in your Articulate 360 desktop app!
If you have additional questions, don't hesitate to reach out in this discussion or in a support case.
I'm facing the same issue, with keyboard navigation skipping the text content, both if I use the arrows or the tab (which correctly detects the clickable items only), what should I do to have the readers finding the text? All text is in the focus order in the correct position. Thank you for any suggestion!
Have you tested with a screen reader? The focus should only show interactive elements, the screen reader will read the text in the order
Yes, I tried with the Windows reader (windows+ctrl+enter) and it reads everything in the screen (like, in the preview link, the title of the lesson on top of the screen) but the text in the lesson,
Thanks for your reply
You would be better off testing outside of preview and in a web browser
Hi Phil, thank you again, you're right cause it seems the reader works fine when the lesson is uploaded into the LMS, that's good news for sure, but it also means the test of the accessibility features should always be done there, and not on published review versions.
Review loads the course inside an iframe so can cause some issues with accessibility
makes sense, thanks a lot!