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Help with Making Scene Accessible in Storyline
Hello everyone. I inherited a story and I need to make it accessible and readable with Jaws. I've attached the scene for reference. It's a simulation of changing a phone's time and date via command prompts. The instructions are on the left and the simulated command prompt is on the right. There are two problems:
1. When a user selects the green Next arrow, the reading order doesn't go back to the instructions. It should read the left text, read the command prompt line, then read the instructions again on the left. Is there anyway to make a screen reader jump back to the instructions after each step?
2. There are eight steps for changing the time and the designer built it using layers. When a user reads the page, Jaws reads all of the command text in the layers. I thought it would only read the layer that was visible. Is there something wrong with how the layers were built?
I think it'll make more sense when you see the story. I'm wondering if the only solution to both problems is changing the layers to slides?
I appreciate any help!
Hi Kris,
Thanks for reaching out!
For the first item, it sounds like you want to modify the focus order of your slide. I checked the slide and it is still using the default focus order.
The Focus Order window controls the tab order of interactive objects, such as buttons and markers, as well as the reading order for non-interactive objects, such as text and images.
Please take a look at your slide's current focus order and make changes as necessary. Feel free to share a copy of your modified project file here if you'd like the community to take a look at how you rearranged the focus order.
For the second inquiry, even though the command text looks grayed out, they are still present in the slide. The font color of the text has been changed to gray, but if you take a look at the screenshot below, the text boxes for previous steps are still included in the focus order.
Please remove them from the focus order or uncheck the box that makes the object visible to screen readers if you want them excluded from the narration.
Check out this article for more tips on creating accessible Storyline 360 courses:
Let me know if you have any questions!
Hi. Thank you! I ended up changing the layers to slides. One reason is because Jaws was reading all of the green text on each step when only the new text needed to be read. That fixed the reading issue. I still don't know why the original designer had the text on the base layer and the step layers. My solution may have been the long way around to get it done, but it works. Thank you for talking a look. I really appreciate it.
