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Animated Gifs under WCAG 2.1 conformance
Under WCAG 2.1 we need to give control of animated gifs to the learner. Gifs cannot loop, so they need controls to either hide, pause or stop the gifs.
This is particularly difficult to do in Rise...
BTW, I use Screentogif (free) to create my animated gifs and it has the same option to turn off looping. You can also output what you create as video and other motion formats.
In Rise, you can insert the animated gif if you convert to video. Which you can do in Screentogif, as well.
In Storyline, you could create a screen with a play button that when clicked activates the animated gif. And then insert that as a Storyline block in Rise.
It kind of depends on what the gif is. If it's decorative, then I'd drop it. If it has some function, I'd look at various options: video, SL block, maybe export the frames and insert into a carousel, etc.
