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Customizing atl text for lightbox close button in SL360
Good morning e-learning enthusiasts,
I am creating an e-learning course which relies in part on lightboxes. The boxes themselves function beautifully with screen readers and the content is easil...
Hi Rio,
No apologies necessary - there isn't a way to edit or access that button to add "alt text" to it, so it's a possible bug. Can you let me know what browser you were viewing the content in? Also had you uploaded to your LMS, web server, or were you testing it locally?
Hi Ashley,
It was being viewed in IE using Jaws by our Assistive Tech Specialist in our Blackboard LMS, and using NVDA as well. I tested it in Google Chrome using ChromeVox and it just keeps saying that the exit button for the lightbox as "button".
The workaround I have set for now is one-linber message letting the user know they can click that button to close the lightbox, or press the ESC key on their keyboard. It would be very helpful to have the option of putting an alternative text to it, or just have it preset to be read by screen readers as "Exit button" instead of just button.
