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Accessible Course - Issue using audio with forced navigation
Hello! I have been learning about making courses accessible. I have come across an issue with controlling audio along with forced navigation.
I have a small prototype with a few different slide se...
I modified the slide to your suggestion above and then tested it in NVDA screen reader. Unfortunately, by preventing the user from clicking the other layers, the screen reader shifts the focus back to the main slide and repeats the direction for the user to click the card they just clicked. So, for example, when I click Card 1, after the audio completes, the screen reader repeats the direction to click Card 1 again. Then I have to tab to get to the next card.
However, I like having the audio automatically play on the layers because there is no text for the screen reader to announce so there is no competition between the screen reader and the audio for the popup layers. This is a smoother way to set up these types of popups.
I am going to strongly recommend to clients that we do not force learners using screen readers or not) to listen to all audio on popups before the Next button enables.
Thank you, Elizabeth, for helping me work through this scenario and for your recommendations for accessibility. I really appreciate it!
One thing to keep in mind is that every state can have its own alt text, so, for your visited states, so that the user doesn't hear "Click or press the button to reveal card 1" when they already have, if it's on its visited state, you could have the alt text instead be something like "Card 1 - Completed."
Just a thought! Good luck with the rest of this project!
