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NEW: Accessibility Checker in Storyline
Hey folks, just wanted to make sure you saw Storyline's latest update this week. Included is a feature that's sure to change how you build accessible courses forever. Built into Storyline is now an accessibility checker.
With one click, the accessibility checker scans your course and generates a detailed report listing accessibility issues and shows you step-by-step how to fix them.
Key features:
- Real-time scanning: One click, and it instantly finds potential accessibility issues.
- Guided fixes: It doesn’t just find problems, it shows you exactly how to fix them and includes one-click fixes.
- Learn by doing: You organically pick up accessibility best practices as you build your course.
Documentation:
- Storyline 360: Improving Experiences With the Accessibility Checker
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This is a really cool new addition.
Thanks, Jon. My favorite part is the baked-in performance support it offers by referencing the specific guidelines.
HI David, Can I make one feature request to the accessibility checker? I would love to see an option to "Apply to All" in the custom alt text added section. I have old courses that I am making accessible and they have hundreds of references to "freeform" and "rectangle" that need to be removed. THANKS!
Just watched the live webinar on this topic covered by David. Definitely one of the best and most useful features in the latest update.
That's so great to hear, Nedium! The team did such an amazing job implementing the checker into our workflow.
This is the best thing you guys have ever done! Thank you for this!
Thanks so much, TanaLyman! This is truly a game changer for accessibility. Can't wait for you to try it out.
Yes! I happened upon it this week and LOVE it! It really helps those of us who are still learning the intricacies of designing for accessibility. Thank you!
This is awesome. I especially like the centralized alt text editor. One request... is it possible to provide users the ability to turn certain aspects of the checker off. Our training community uses customized closed captioning which causes the Accessibilty Checker to erroneously indicate that we do not have closed captioning on. We can deal with the false reports but they cause confusion with our learning developers.
Hello MarkNolker,
Thanks for your feedback and for requesting this modification!
The accessibility checker looks for caption files on media and audio assets to help ensure accessibility. Since captions are specific file types that need to be imported, the checker flags when they're missing.
We understand there are cases, like background videos with no audio, where captions aren't needed. In those situations and your current setup, the Skip button is the best option for now.
While there's no way to turn off specific parts of the checker at this time, I've shared your request with our product team. If you're open to it, we'd love to see your setup so we can better understand how your customized closed captions work. Feel free to share your project file here or privately in a support case.
Please don't hesitate to reach out if you have additional questions.
Eric,
This is part of a larger template designed before built in closed captioning existed (back in 2015). Our internal accessibility branch required that we have an indicator in the focus order showing whether there was closed captioning or audio on a slide. The captioning text is derived from the Caption variable and displayed via the master slide. Whether the slide displays captioning is dependent on the state of the audiostate1 button on the base layer. We have around 900 learning objectives built in this template and thus we have not switched over to the built-in functionality.Hi MarkNolker,
Thanks for sharing your setup and Storyline project file!
I've forwarded them to our product team to help with their investigation and to give them better insight into how we might improve the Accessibility Checker feature.
Is it possible to turn this off? In my situation, accessibility is not a concern.
Hello UFCU_DevTeam,
I appreciate you sharing your feedback on this feature!
I've added your voice to the request for an optional Accessibility Checker. We'll keep this thread updated with any changes that could help.
This may be my favorite feature ever! The most convenient. I love it.
I keep harping on about accessibility and how it takes a little extra time to ensure the course is accessible. This will not only make life easier (and save loads of time) when it come to checking for accessibility issues, but it can be used to demonstrate to SMEs and stakeholders what is actually required to make a course accessible (I'm pretty sure they think I just make this stuff up😉).
Hey everyone! Fantastic new addition to Storyline 360--I use it on every course I work on and recommend it to my teammates as well. :) One feature request I'd recommend is to implement color contrast checks into the Accessibility Checker as well. Programs like Microsoft's Word and PowerPoint have implemented color contrast checking into their own Accessibility Checker tools, so I'm wondering if this could easily be implemented into a future release of Storyline?
I agree that would be great if possible!
