I'm very new and just trying to learn SL & Rise. I teach, so it's essential that all anything I create is ADA compliant. I've been reading some articles (and viewed one video) on this site, and I notice that "text blocks" are often mentioned. For example, the articles indicate that if I insert an image, I will need a text block so that a screen reader can read what that image is. I'm not sure what a "text block" is in the context of accessibility, though. It's not the same as Alt Text, right?
I hope you are doing well. Good luck on learning to use these new powerful tools and welcome to the E-Learning Heroes community.
From my understanding, an image-text block is the same as the alt text when you're looking at the media library to provide alt-text for your images. Here is how you can look at the media library to find and modify the alt-text.
The text block in Rise 360 is one of the available block types, and a screen reader will read any text you put into the text block. Alt text is a setting on an image block. When you insert any kind of image, you'll want to determine if it needs alt text and if so, add that. Here's how you can add alt text in both Rise 360 and Storyline 360:
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Hey Vickie,
I hope you are doing well. Good luck on learning to use these new powerful tools and welcome to the E-Learning Heroes community.
From my understanding, an image-text block is the same as the alt text when you're looking at the media library to provide alt-text for your images. Here is how you can look at the media library to find and modify the alt-text.
Here is a helpful link to designing accessible content:
I hope this was helpful!
Hi Vickie,
The text block in Rise 360 is one of the available block types, and a screen reader will read any text you put into the text block. Alt text is a setting on an image block. When you insert any kind of image, you'll want to determine if it needs alt text and if so, add that. Here's how you can add alt text in both Rise 360 and Storyline 360: