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Can you change the color of Markers in Rise?
I selected Labeled Graphic an have inserted an image that has a lot of white in it. The markers are white. Can you change the color of a Marker? If so, how? I feel that if you could, it would be simple.
Thanks!
-Karlee
Hi everyone! In today's update for Rise 360, we added the ability to select your marker color! 🎉 I'm really excited about this one. Just go to the labeled graphic settings, and you'll see a field for marker color.
You can also check out the release notes here. Have a great day!
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+1 requesting this feature. I agree with Rick's comment above. Even if not fully customizable, simply having a light/dark option would be helpful to add more contrast.
+1 for this feature.
Guys... I've been watching the forums for a while regarding Rise... and this is one of the most requested features over the past couple years. Articulate even stated (mentioned in a previous comment) that this feature isn't even something on their roadmap... something I'd like to see.
I'm not hopeful any of this will be implemented... at least not for another couple years, which is unfortunate as this is a needed feature. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
How many more requests do they need to "track" to warrant the change?
Not sure but it would not that be that hard of a thing to do you would think. It seems Articulate is taking a minimalist approach in terms of new feature rollouts. Every once and a while they provide a fairly low impact feature rather than actually making substantive improvements.
I have posted about this a few times. I just created another module last week that required required a few labelled graphics, and as is every single time, it is a form (black type on a white background). This time I needed to provide directions as to where to start clicking as it was hard to see - it is getting somewhat/very irritating, given the need/requests for the markers to change and be darker - you don't need it to be darker after clicking on it, it needs to be darker from the start for the learner to see where to click!
There are options. If you know CSS, you can go in the CSS file after output and find the appropriate selector and change the background color. it is a bit of a pain but can be done. What would be really nice (if they can't give us a UI to do it, is if they gave us a CSS over-ride like you can get in Wordpress themes and then we can share ways to customize the pages ourselves.
I would love to see something other than white for the background of the markers as well. It makes it hard for the learner to see it on a white background.
Another plus 1. thanks.
Thanks for chiming in, folks. We appreciate the feedback!
This has been open for some time... is there any plan to make this change?
First post was made on 06/20/17 at 8:07 am (PDT)... over 2 years ago. I doubt anything will happen "soon." Hopefully I'm wrong.
I hate always having to do a workaround for something that has been requested for years now, however I put the image of a screen/form/doc that is on a white background in to something like Photoshop, make it a couple of shades slightly darker, nothing too intense, so it still looks almost-white and then the markers show up a little better too.
Add me to the request list. In addition to the colour, we should be able to adjust the size.
From an accessibility standpoint, it's so hard to see on a white background for someone without a visual impairment. I can't imagine what it's like for folks who are visually impaired!
