Notes section of Articulate Storyline 2 and Screen Readers

Apr 29, 2015

Hi All

I was wondering if anyone had been able to find a way to have a screen reader read the notes section first using storyline 2, then move to what is in the screen, in published modules.

The way a learner not using a screen reader would interact with learning is they would hear the audio first, it seems totally odd to me that the screen reader reads the screen/slide first, then jumps to the left hand note section. I am trying to create a completely accessible course and this is one of my pain points. 

If anyone has any insight here and in to what tips and techniques they have used to heighten accessibility that would be greatly appreciated. In particular I am wondering if people have found ways to keep interactivity and accessibility balanced. 

3 Replies
Laura Hunter

Anyone? I am really struggling with this. Although I can get the slides to be relatively accessible by using appropriate tags, the player is a frustration, and having both audio and the reader going at the same time can be quite confusing. My hope was that someone using accessibility technology could turn off the audio and use the reader to read left to right.

Instead it reads the screen first, making the logic, backwards. 

Any ideas at all would be greatly appreciated :)

Thanks

L

Nancy Woinoski

Right now there is no way to control the order in which the screen reader reads the player controls or the notes. If you want the notes to be read first then I would suggest removing them from the notes area and placing them on each slide in the top left corner. You could create a closed captioning button that users could click (or use a keyboard command) to toggle the text on  and off - or if you only want the notes to be accessible to the screen reader you could make the text the same colour as the slide background so that sighted users cannot see it.

As for the audio - you will have to create a custom button to toggle the audio on and off. 

 

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