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LeeMillardButlr
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3 months ago

Custom Blocks Accessibility

Hello. I am testing out custom blocks in Rise, and after adjusting the focus order of a custom block, I cannot tab to the custom block and have the screen reader read the text. Has anyone else experi...
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NishaAtkins
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3 months ago

Hi KellyAuner​ 

I'm also having the same issue and came across this thread. I'm using the custom block > blank template and designing my own (Text and shapes).
My Rise project is mainly custom blocks, along with a labelled graphic. I can tab from the top of the browser window (URL), and then it skips all of the custom blocks and goes straight to the labelled graphic. If I continue to tab, it skips all of the custom blocks after the labelled graphic and goes back to the top of the browser again.

Just to add - if I leave NVDA to run, it will read the whole page, including the text on the custom blocks. It appears to just be an issue with the keyboard navigation (for me). I can't navigate to the blocks - if that makes sense?

Thanks :)

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LeeMillardButlr
Community Member
3 months ago

Hello KellyAuner​ and NishaAtkins​ ,

I did some further testing today with my colleague. It turns out that I believe it was user error on my part. I was also tabbing through, like Nisha, and it was only going to the interactive elements, such as buttons and links and videos. I found this helpful article and also this helpful article and these told me that I needed to use the VO modifer + left arrow and right arrow to access the text.

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    NishaAtkins
    Community Member
    3 months ago

    Thank you LeeMillardButlr​ , I think this was user error on my behalf too. Thank you for the links, really helpful.