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Building a course that is navigable using Dragon (or similar)
Dragon usually works with 'say what you see'. So if the user says the label name, Dragon will select it. However, there are currently some problems with this in Rise and Storyline. In Storyline, Dragon works in the player but not with objects on the slide. The only way to interact with the slide is to use keyboard commands: tab, tab, press enter, etc. With Rise, Dragon used to work really well, but following a code change to Rise (approx April 2025), Dragon now doesn't work very well with radio buttons, checkboxes and other inputs.
I have reported this to Articulate but they don't seem to realise how problematic it is. They keep telling me that Dragon isn't one of their supported screen readers. This just shows their poor understanding, as Dragon isn't a screen reader at all. They don't seem to understand the concept of voice recognition software and think accessibility is just about screen readers.
We are going to start a pilot with a group of users to use Windows Voice Access instead of Dragon. This works better with Rise products... but really, Articulate should fix the code.
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