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JesseTaber
Staff
3 months ago

Accessibility: Easier. Faster. Smarter.

Since we launched the Storyline 360 Accessibility Checker back in May, I’ve heard a consistent theme from course authors:

➡️ “This saves me so much time.”

Instead of manually checking dozens of objects across your slides, the checker gives you a single, clear view of potential accessibility issues and guides you to fix them. That’s not just a time-saver; it's a quality booster.

So how much of a boost?

Before launching the checker, we started tracking how often published courses contained common accessibility issues, things like missing alt text, unlabeled buttons, or absent captions.

Since release, we’ve seen a 12% average reduction in these issues. That’s real impact.

👇 Now I’d love to hear from you:
🔹 What aspects of the checker are most valuable in your workflow?
🔹 What’s still a chore you’d love to see automated?
🔹 How could AI make the checker even more useful?

Let’s build the future of accessible course design together.

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2 Replies

  • HunterBlake's avatar
    HunterBlake
    Community Member
    3 months ago

    I love the Accessibility Checker! Before it was kind of out of sight out of mind (pun somewhat intended). Now it is very clear when there are issues. Most valuable is with the AI doing alt texts in a single click; that is so nice. The most "groan" part for me is the Text Styles. I need to get better at setting those up right at the beginning and using them through out. That is my challenge. I always get caught on the titles of the slides and I am like "It is the title! You know this! Read it first!" LOL

    I guess what I would like to see automated is the software looking at "Rectangle 1" or "Line" and figuring out on its own that it does not need to be seen by the reader. I tend to have a lot of things I remove from a reader picking them up.

  • MelanieSobie-14's avatar
    MelanieSobie-14
    Community Member
    3 months ago

    What I like most about the accessibility checker is that it will catch things I've missed. Kind of like that co-worker who can find that one typo in your final draft course that you never saw. Also, the summary view is a nice high level snapshot. It isn't overwhelming and you can dig deeper when necessary. 👍

    What is still a chore that I'd love to be automated is for quiz slides have the focus order in the correct order, instead of reverse order. In every single quiz I build I have to open the focus order window and create a custom focus order, moving all of the base slide items up to the top. All I want for Christmas is a quiz slide focus order in the correct order as the default. 🎄