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Alt Text in Textboxes
Hi everyone,
I'm prepping some courses for accessibility, but I'm afraid I made a big mistake.
I am in the process of hiding decorative images, but also saw there is alt text for textboxes. I tho...
Hi trayaw​!
Glad to see the community has been helping you. Happy to jump in here!
In Storyline, even if a Text Box has no custom Alt Text, screen readers should still dictate the on-screen text automatically. By default, Storyline automatically makes text styles accessible to screen readers. As long as the text box is also listed within the Focus Order, you should not have issues leaving the Alt Text field blank.
When testing a Text Box with an empty Alt Text field, the JAWS screen reader still dictated my text as it appeared on the Slide.
Let me know how it goes when testing on your end!