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Accessibility Drag and Drop with more than one answer
Hey all! I have watch the Accessibility drag and drop video from Articulate: How to Create an Accessible Drag-and-Drop Interaction in Storyline 360 | Articulate - Community
This is awesome if there is only 1 drop because you force it to go to correct/incorrect as soon as the drag piece gets into place. Yay! But is it possible to have multiple answers on a single slide. For example, a drag and drop with 5 drag objects and 5 drop targets. I cannot force it to go to incorrect/correct on each one(which I guess you technically could if you created 10 layers with a correct/incorrect for each one) but then how do you tell each drag box to move to the correct drop target? (Thinking through it as I type this).
You can use the tab to select different drag objects. Easy. Does it for you. But if I am on drag object 3 and wanted it to go to target 1 by pressing the 1 on the keyboard, how do I make it ONLY move drag 3 and not the others at the same time.... (perhaps a selected state or once user clicks on(but does that work with a tab) still thinking through it).
Any help would be appreciated. I have pretty much abandoned any drag and drops that have more than one item because of this.
Hey A11yCheckSaaS,
Thanks for the comment. After a lot of research, we have started using the single drag item with keyboard shortcuts to remedy this.
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Hi HunterBlake
With multiple drag items and targets, I’d step back and ask whether drag and drop is still the simplest way to achieve the learning goal. If the interaction becomes difficult to build, maintain, and test with a keyboard, a different interaction may give learners the same practice with less complexity.
I’d compare the alternatives in the published course with keyboard and screen-reader testing before deciding which approach to keep.
How to Choose Accessible Storyline Interactions
Learning Library resourceHey A11yCheckSaaS,
Thanks for the comment. After a lot of research, we have started using the single drag item with keyboard shortcuts to remedy this.
I just found this solution Accessibility solution for drag and drop | Articulate - Community
Which is good. I like the locks showing you are just focused on that one, but it is not really solving the problem like I wanted. I had already thought about making 5 separate slides with one answer each.
