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Accessibility and screen readers
I'm working through and testing accessiliby for screen readers for the first time in Storyline360.
There's some things that I can't make sense of. I am testing uisng NVDA, it insists on including ...
Hi Angela,
Thanks for reaching out and sharing your questions about screen readers.
Anyone know how to remove the 'back to top' button when tabbing through?
The skip navigation shortcut is enabled by default, and we recommend keeping it enabled. However, you can turn it off should you need to do so. See this user guide for details.
- Also, in case you're not familiar with this behavior, I wanted to share this information as well:
Arriving on a slide and it sometimes says "blank", but using the arrow keys will prompt it to read the content.
Does your slide have a title when you're hearing this? If you have an example, we'd be happy to take a look. I know this was an issue that JAWS recently addressed in their software and Lauren talks about it here.
The arrow keys are how you navigate the text on the page, so this sounds like expected behavior.
Storyline 360: Slide Content Is More Accessible
"Clickable main landmark slide" before reading content sometimes. Anyone else get this? or know what is behind it saying that?
This is an ARIA landmark. Screen reader users are able to understand items on the screen and navigate to them using them.
Simon mentions it here:
Recent accessibility improvements in Storyline 360
Hope this helps you get started in understanding how screen readers work. Let us know if you have any additional questions.
