I have an interactive tutorial that we use at my workplace but we want to to create text only alternative to meet ADA compliance. How would one typically link the text based alternative version of project on the opening slide for students to access?
I do this quite a lot at work. Some of my text based content is published to html5 and a simple button 'Text version' with a trigger to 'open url' and setting up to open in the current browser (or as a popup or full screen). I usually place a link to the storyline file on the text version to open in the current browser and set the Storyline file to 'always resume'.
If your text file is a document like say pdf just use the button to link to it and open in a new browser window and set the custom size to 800 x 900 usually works for me. You wont be able to link back to the Storyline file from it but you won't need to.
Happy to send on a working example if you need one.
So, I have knocked up a quick demo for you. The Storyline file is a simple single page representation of an GUI version of a course. To bring up the text version, which you might need say to ensure your course contains accessible content (note: I have not included the parts to make the text version fully accessible), there is a link to an external text file, in this case a simple html file. Clicking on the link (Text Version) opens up the external HTML file (make sure you have put it in the correct folder). The external text file contains whichever text you want to include, I have also included a couple of images for demonstration purposes. In the sample I have provided, you can also allow your learners to print the text file or save its contents to PDF which is of use to all learners in both the GUI and Text environments.
Thanks so much, this is awesome! I don't see the storyline file? I wanted to see what it looked like and how the html file is accessed from it, if possible?
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Hi Daphnee,
I do this quite a lot at work. Some of my text based content is published to html5 and a simple button 'Text version' with a trigger to 'open url' and setting up to open in the current browser (or as a popup or full screen). I usually place a link to the storyline file on the text version to open in the current browser and set the Storyline file to 'always resume'.
If your text file is a document like say pdf just use the button to link to it and open in a new browser window and set the custom size to 800 x 900 usually works for me. You wont be able to link back to the Storyline file from it but you won't need to.
Happy to send on a working example if you need one.
Joe
Hi Joe,
Thanks for responding. Yes, I'd love an example if you don't mind.
OK Daphnee
So, I have knocked up a quick demo for you. The Storyline file is a simple single page representation of an GUI version of a course. To bring up the text version, which you might need say to ensure your course contains accessible content (note: I have not included the parts to make the text version fully accessible), there is a link to an external text file, in this case a simple html file. Clicking on the link (Text Version) opens up the external HTML file (make sure you have put it in the correct folder). The external text file contains whichever text you want to include, I have also included a couple of images for demonstration purposes. In the sample I have provided, you can also allow your learners to print the text file or save its contents to PDF which is of use to all learners in both the GUI and Text environments.
Hope it helps.
Hi Joe,
Thanks so much, this is awesome! I don't see the storyline file? I wanted to see what it looked like and how the html file is accessed from it, if possible?
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Sorry - I just noticed an error in the file - here is the corrected version.
This is perfect! Thanks for much for sharing Joe.
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