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Representing the blind community
I'm building a scenario-based lesson in Rise for people who work with members of the blind community. The character selection is fairly limited, and no one is blind even wearing sunglasses. I'm noticing other groups aren't represented, for example people in wheelchairs or using canes.
Anyone have any ideas on how I can customize these characters? Perhaps I should be using Storyline instead.
The more specific one's request is for certain character traits, the more likely it is that filling the request will require licensing characters from a company that focuses on that service, buying images from a stock photo agency, or even paying for a custom photo shoot.
Here are two sites that provide cut-out characters:
I once saw Tom Kuhlmann demonstrate how to replace the Rise scenario character with a custom character. The trick is to publish the course, and then replace each character PNG in the assets folder with a custom-character PNG. The new images must use the exact names as the original assets. (Yeah, not exactly an easy solution.)
Storyline uses the same Content Library of characters that Rise does. However, if you have access to images of other characters, those could be inserted into Storyline and moved/resized like any other picture. So at least you'd see what it looks like before you publish.
Hi Terence and welcome to the community!
If you're looking to include characters with visible disabilities in a Rise 360 scenario block, the current character sets available are limited in their options. Our internal teams have heard customer feedback about this, so they are aware the need is out there.
In the meantime, though, Judy's suggestion of tapping into external sources for cut-out characters could help. As well, this discussion thread has some useful resources for stock imagery and stock characters with visible disabilities.
