Accessibility Ideas

Jan 12, 2019

Sharon English
By Sharon English

Hello heroes,

I'm looking for creative inspiration and ideas. Are you up for a challenge?

I'm polishing off an e-Learning module in Rise that celebrates LGBTIQA+ inclusion. One lesson includes a download of the Genderbread Person PDF workbook which explores gender and sexual identity (https://www.genderbread.org/). 

My challenge is to create a version of the activity that is accessible for our vision impaired employees.  Whilst I could explain the activity in words, I'd prefer to offer an interactive and engaging experience - as is offered to our sighted workforce.

Any ideas (Rise, Storyline, Engage or combination)?

6 Replies
Nicole Legault
over 5 years ago01/15/19 at 2:19 pm (UTC)

Hi there Sharon!

Thanks for posting your question here in the community. In terms of creating something that's accessible right now I'd recommend using Storyline. We've got tons of resources on creating accessible content with Storyline that you may want to have a peek at: 

Keep in mind that if you want this to be accessible and work as a non-sighted version, your content should work with a screen reader so I'd recommend exploring that and testing the content you create in a screen reader. 

Hope this helps you out! :) 

Sharon English
over 5 years ago01/16/19 at 8:49 pm (UTC)

Thanks Nicole - we do a lot of accessible design so I'm pretty confident I've got the basics covered, I will review the links because you just never know.  I'm super keen to get creative ideas, specifically about the resource I linked to in relation to presenting the learning in an engaging way for vision impaired learners. The 'Genderbread Person' is so visual, I'm stuck with thinking of ideas beyond an audio version.

Roger Kerr
3 years ago02/01/21 at 10:21 pm (UTC)

Hi Sharon - I have been following your accessibility and Rise commentary with great interest. I have produced hundreds of Rise courses over the last few years and I am now getting some questions about accessibility and WCAG. I don't fancy having to re-visit all of these courses but I may have to! As an interim measure, would it be useful to export as a Word Doc to meet requirements by offering as an 'accessibility option'? Obviously, I would be creating a 'text' version of the course but at least it would be something positive? What do you think?

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