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Inheritance of alt text by states in Storyline
Hi RichardPrince - I just performed some testing, and I'm finding that NVDA is announcing alt text during the preview. Last year, we implemented a new setting allowing screen reader support to be disabled. Can you check that the option is checked/enabled for you?
Screen reader support during preview is now optional. Turn it on in the Storyline Options window
You are quite correct. States get their own acc-names what is not good. In the advanced javascript API you can set a state by javascript. It might be good if that would be fixed too. ZevanRosser is this still actuall with the new Js API ? Whats the reason for it? I dont see any accessibility requirements for it. Could it be fixed in a way Richard suggests?
@RichardPrince the reason for this (at least with a radio button) is that we use a real html radio button element in this scenario so that screen readers behave traditionally. There may be a way to get the behavior that you want, but we'd need to see your story file.
As far as states for normal buttons etc... we'd again want to get a story file and log an issue with support. 508/Accessibility is a very complex area.
MathNotermans-9 This doesn't have anything to do with the js api thankfully :D