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508 remediation of Storyline course
Hello,
I am working on a 508 remediation project, and this is my first time doing this in Storyline. The original project was created as a single scene, 652 total slides. When I ran the accessibility checker the first time, results showed the project had over 10,000 errors. I have slowly been chipping away at this, but I do not know if I am doing the work in the most efficient way possible. I've split the course into scenes based on the content, and I'm working my way through each slide individually. Is there a way to make universal changes to parts of a course? For example, all of the X icons to close a window in a layer need alt tags and enlarged to be 24x24. Is there a way I can put this in so that anytime that icon appears, the necessary changes are made? Or do I have to go through each slide?
The course has other issues (no unique slide titles, fonts too small, color contrast not compliant, even the initial font used is not accessible), but if I could solve even this one issue, it would save me some time.
Thanks for your help!
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Hello ContractsManage . Your post deserves to stay at the top of the list for as long as possible to get answers and gather useful tips.
We all struggle with these kinds of problems.
I don't have a magic formula.
Regarding your X icon that needs to be enlarged: if it needed to be shrunk, there would be a trick. But I don't know of a way to change the size of 508 elements on 508 different slides, even if they are all identical and only appear once in the Media Library. I don't think it's possible... (see below).However, using the Media Library, you can find your X icon element in the list, write alternative text, AND CLICK on “Apply to All” (apply the text to all occurrences of this media). This way, with a single click, all your X icons will share the same alt text. BUT not all icons will become accessible if they are not already. You have to do it slide by slide...
Now, for resizing, I thought that an alternative solution might work with JScode. I'll look into it. Since all X icons (now) share the same alt text, they can all be targeted by code that would resize them (height and width) and reposition them on the slide (roughly at the top right, adjustable in the code) at the beginning of the slide. These are simple things that code can easily do, in theory. I'll get back to you when (if) I get a result.
This morning, ChatGPT failed miserably at writing this simple code. If anyone feels up to the task, please give it a try. For my part, I'm going to find a small piece of code that does the job (moving an element, for example) and continue discussing it with ChatGPT.
Hello ContractsManage . I tried, but it seems that it is not possible to resize an object to a fixed size (e.g., 24x24) so easily. You have to use the “scale” function, taking into account the original dimensions of the element to achieve a fixed result (24x24). For example, if one icon is 50x50 and another (almost identical) is 52x52. But there is an additional problem that I have not been able to overcome: resizing causes a shift that must be configured in order to reposition the icon in the right place (for example, at the top right). This becomes very complicated (for me), and I therefore think that my solution is not simple at all, and therefore unusable in your case.
