Building Quiz Using Lightboxes Called from Hotspots

Do the questions need to track/get graded?

That's a nice-to-have but not a must

Hi Nick,

That should certainly be doable. The only thing that will impact how you set up the questions will be whether or not they need to be graded and report to an LMS. Here's how I did it.

1. First I created a Group of rectangles to simulate your image of the document.
2. Placed Hotspots over the green rectangles to indicate areas we want the learner to click.
3. Inserted a scrolling panel and drug everything into it.
4. Added a second scene with three placeholder question slides (if it needs to be graded/reported).
5. Added triggers to lightbox the respective question for each hotspot (Top to bottom = 1–3)

Here's a quick demo:

https://360.articulate.com/review/content/2cd511fd-608c-49a5-b438-17913207e5ce/review

Hope that helps!

If you don't want the questions to be graded or reported, you can manually build them with slide layers.

Thank you so much, Mike! This is perfect. I really appreciate your help!

Hi Mike (and hi Nick),

As a fun Bob and Tom skit says, "Long time listener, first time caller." :-) Miss you guys and your creative collaboration.

Quick question on this idea. Our courses must be 508 compliant. Off the top of your mind, is would this be?

Hey, Sandy!! Good to hear from you! :-)

I'm actually not sure the scrolling panel would work for 508. I'm guessing the scrolling panel might mask the hotspots, unfortunately. I suppose you could test it!

Thanks, Nick. Do you use a specific way to test 508 compliance?

No, I haven't crossed that bridge in my new role. Sorry!

@Mike, do you know? Or maybe Tanya/Diane?

You can include the scroll bar in the tab order, and even add alt text to it. Everything in the scroll window can be included in the tab order... so the screen reader should be able to pick it up. The light boxes will be introduced into the tab order as they appear, so those should be fine.

The only thing that wouldn't be accessible is the hotspots... they cant' be included in the tab order. However, there is a work around. I've used clear boxes (no fill, no outline) in place of hotspots, to help when I would normally used hotspots. The nice thing about the clear boxes is I can add alt-text to it, so that the screen reader can read whatever I want the screen reader to say. In this example, it might say "part 1 of xyz form".

As always, test your course with the screen reader to see how it behaves. I have noticed that even though Articulate has greatly improved its HTML5 encoder, i can create some interesting interactions with the screen reader.