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Need help on how to play the correct video for a user with Accessibility needs.
I have been tasked with slowly upgrading hundreds of Storyline courses to meet accessibility needs. Most will be easy, but I am currently at the end of one about jusging others.
We have a scenario where the user pretends to be hiring a new staff member and they watch a video showing 6 candidates. Each person is visually very descriptive. But for accessibility needs the video needs VO to describe the visuals. The point of this scenario was to judge people solely based on how you see them, not on an audio description.
I suggested that we could have a button that asks do you need audio aid, which if selected would play the VO version instead of the silent version, but that was rejected.
Has anyone come up with a similar obstacle and how did you get around this?
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Can you add the VO to the video but mute by default (unsure if this is a feature or via Javascript)?
or add a description in the notes and switch on the notes in the custom player settings, just for this slide.
This isn't an easy workaround, but it sounds like you might need more of an alternate course option that allows people to do something similar with different voices using different tones? I imagine blind/low vision folks do some amount of judging based on tone of voice ("nice to meet you" with a friendly tone vs a bored/distracted tone) and physical interactions? Maybe incorporate different audio body language descriptions (like "while shaking your hand, Fred also puts a hand on your shoulder")
