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Matching Drop Down Question - not 508/accesibility compliance?
Hi all,
Has anybody found out if there is a way to make Matching Drop down question accesible in Storyline?
We work with this program to generate some of our courses and we see inconsitencies between the publicity of Articulate around its grade of 508 compliancy and with what really is...
For example, when comming into the types of activities that are theocally compliance Articulate indicated that the compliance exceptions are Drag and drop interactions and Hotspot questions, but we could see many other compliance conflicts.
For example; The matching drop down allows the user to select the options from the drop down list, but its impossible to make the screenread to indicate (read) the content of the options readed. Has anybody found a solution for this?
Other example is the "Fill in the Blank" option i where the screenreader is not capable to review for the user what he/she has typed.
Something similar happens with the "choose one" type questions, in where the user can use the keyborad to navigate trough the diferent answer options provided, but, when choosin one is not allowed to select it as correct (move it into the right place) to make his/her selection.
Has anybody, solved any of this challenges? Our opinion at this point is that one True/false and Multiple Choice questions are truthly accesible, and this reduces dramaticly the posibilities of this tool to generate compliance accesible course without strong extra programing
Any other opinion?
We are having the same problem. Can you guys please escalate this issue.
Hi Kathy,
I don’t currently have any updates, but I will let the team know that there are additional authors running into this issue. You should now be subscribed to this conversation which means as we share updates here, you’ll automatically be notified.
Please let me know if I can help with anything else.
Hi,
Any news on this issue? It still doesn't seem to work.
Thank you
Hi there, Attila. We haven't been able to address this issue yet. We are going to be rolling out accessibility improvements soon, and this discussion is tagged to be updated when we do!
Hi everyone!
I quickly wanted to jump into the discussion and share that JAWS now reads drop-down lists correctly in Update 36 (Build 3.36.21213.0) for Storyline 360!
Hi Lauren,
Could you please confirm if JAWS can also read drop-down lists correctly in Storyline 3 now?
We're developing courses for clients with both Storyline 3 and Storyline 360. We want to make sure it's accessible for both groups to customize with either Storyline 3 or 360. Thank you.
Hi there, I have just updated to version 3.36. and tested. The screen reader (JAWS and NVDA) read the dropdown menu list, however, once tabbed to the combo dropdown menu, it doesn't read each choice text.
Does anyone know how to let it read like:
Read choice 1 text, then tab to combo dropdown menu, then select an item,
Read choice 2 text, then tab to combo dropdown menu, then select an item.
Again, the screen reader read this way by using down arrow key or Ctrl+down arrow. BUT once use tab to select the combo dropdown menu, you can no longer make the screen reader read the text of the choices.
Hope there is an answer... Thanks!
Hello!
I was wondering if you were ever able to resolve this issue of having NVDA (Or JAWS) read the question in the proper order:
- Read "Choice 1 text (question)" and then navigate to the "combo dropdown menu 1" to select the first answer
- Then read "Choice 2 text (question)" and then navigate to the "combo dropdown menu 2" to select the second answer
Every combo box reads out the same in NVDA, so how could someone who can't visually read the text and see the screen arrangement be able to tell the combo boxes apart? How would they know which combo box goes with which question?
As of right now, I can't figure out how to use this question type in my quiz. Any ideas?
(I can't share my SL file as it's a work file, but I attached a little snap of an example slide layout)
Thanks for any help!!
Hi Jillian!
Thanks for reaching out! I wanted to share that after testing this out, we found that NVDA is working as it should. You might need to modify your NVDA settings to toggle from Focus mode to Browse mode. JAWS automatically switches from Focus mode to Browse mode so no need to make any changes there.
Please let us know if you have any additional questions!
Hi Yu0909!
My colleague, Katie, answered your post over here in case you missed it!
Hi All, I'm trying to solve this same problem of making a drop-down matching quiz accessible. I am not able to add the quiz answer objects into the tab order. There are only two quiz objects in the tab order: "Textbox" which is the question and "Matching Drop-Down" which contains all of the answers. In the timeline, I can expand it and see the individual answer objects, but it seems that they are grouped and cannot be ungrouped, and there is no option to add the individual quiz answer objects into the tab order... Can anyone help me with this?
Hi JJ,
Thanks for contacting us and sharing what you are experiencing and what you would like to see in your project file.
You are correct and the entire interaction is treated as one 'Tab Order' object.
When testing an example, I'm seeing the slide content read by the screen reader as well as the ability to arrow through and select the items from the drop-down as expected.
A recent update allowed for easier navigation of accessible content as you can read about here:
Slide Content Is More Accessible
Could you share the issue that you're running into with your matching drop-down quiz being accessible?
Hi there, What about a reflection activity. Is there any way to have this besides using the Survey activity option? And is this accessible or not in Storyline 360? Could anyone please let me know? I need to create a reflection activity that is also accessible in Storyline 360. Thank you. Regards, Stef
Hi Stefaniada!
I'm happy to help!
Survey activity is compliant with the current accessibility standards. You'll want to make sure that you're adding accurate ALT text that explains what a user needs to do to interact with the slide. Here's a quick example of a compliant Survey Questions.
do have a question. Are these answers typed in there recorded somewhere. Can the instructor or user see them anywhere or go back to them at a later time? Thanks. Stef
Hi Stefaniada!
These answers can be reported on the following slide by adding the variable in a text box. For example, the text entry field uses the variable TextEntry1. On the next slide, I would add a text box that has the text %TextEntry1%. This will display what the user has typed in.
If you're using an LMS and want to see the responses, make sure to use a Survey Results Slide.
I've recorded a short demo on how to create this. Here's the link.
