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Headway
Community Member
7 days ago

AI Text-to-Speech breaks slide interactions (buttons become unresponsive)

After generating AI Text-to-Speech audio in Storyline 360 version 1.116.36776.0, slide interactions stop working in the published output.

The same slide works correctly before generating the AI voice. After AI Text-to-Speech is added, buttons/hotspots become unresponsive.

In the browser console, I see this warning:

“Blocked aria-hidden on an element because its descendant retained focus. The focus must not be hidden from assistive technology users.”

The affected element is a slide object/vector shape used as an interactive button/hotspot. It appears to receive focus while one of its ancestors has aria-hidden="true".

This seems to suggest that AI Text-to-Speech may be causing an accessibility/focus issue in the published output, where an interactive object is incorrectly hidden from assistive technology while still retaining focus, breaking the click interaction.

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  • StevenBenassi's avatar
    StevenBenassi
    Staff
    7 days ago

    Hi Headway​,

    I'm sorry to hear that you've run into this setback, working with AI Text-to-Speech in Storyline.

    I'd like our support engineers to have a closer look at this issue, so I've opened a support case on your behalf. They should be connecting with you via email shortly, and we can continue the conversation there!