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PrestonRuddell's avatar
PrestonRuddell
Community Member
22 hours ago

Accessibility - Defining Text Styles without Slide Titles

Hello all!

I'm working with Articulate's new accessibility checker. This slide is getting flagged by the accessibility checker for "Text styles defined":

I believe it's flagging the slide because all of the text is the same level (Normal Text). If I format any text as a heading, then the slide passes. My issues are as follows:

  • I don't want to have a slide title on each slide.
  • While I could probably make it work on this slide, I have some slides planned where a slide title will get in the way of what I have planned.
  • With this design, I'm having a hard time imagining how to implement slide titles without making the slides look like PowerPoint slides, which I'm desperately trying to avoid.

This is a project that must be accessible, so I'm not looking to cut corners... but is it really necessary to have <h1> text on each slide? My slides aren't currently designed with slide titles in mind, and there's no obvious text that I could assign as a heading style.

Any advice? Is there a nifty, accessible solution (I really want to do what's right for accessibility) that allows me to keep my current design? Or do I need to bite the bullet and redesign my slides to accommodate slide titles?

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1 Reply

  • JudyNollet's avatar
    JudyNollet
    Super Hero
    12 hours ago

    Option 1: Click "Skip" in the accessibility checker. 

     

    Option 2: Put a Title placeholder off the slide. Use that to enter Heading-1 text that the user won't see.

    I put a Title placeholder just above the slide area for blank layouts, because the Title placeholder is connected to the Slide Title field (which is under the slide image in the Scenes panel). That makes it easier to enter the text to be used for the built-in Menu. 

    The Title would be read by a screen reader.

    • I just did a quick test. I inserted a blank slide in a project. The accessibility checker gave me its text-style-defined error. I put a Title with the Heading 1 style above the slide. The accessibility checker deleted its note. And that note didn't reappear when I removed the Title placeholder from the Focus Order. 

     

    It's up to you and your company/client to determine if what's acceptable.