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Please help! slide layer finishes before activity is completed
I think it'd be better to start from scratch. I'd put the videos on separate slides, because that makes each video and the associated question easier to control.
And, if the learner can't continue directly from where they see the feedback, I also think it'd better to have them click a button to return to the base (or to a "menu" slide).
- As a user, I find it frustrating when feedback appears and then disappears on its own. What if I happen to look away and miss it? In other words, I think it's fine to require a click to continue after an interaction. (IMHO, it's a lot more annoying to require me to click to play the content on every slide. I understand why some folks might want to do that. But, the way I see it, that should be a global setting that allows me to choose at the beginning of the course whether or not I want slides to play automatically.)
Thank you again for your time and support—I truly appreciate it. I’ll continue refining this slide based on your feedback.
I also wanted to follow up on your other suggestion. I share your frustration with having to click “play” for each slide and slide layer. That approach was originally implemented for a client project, based on WCAG guidelines that emphasize giving learners control over when media starts and stops. Through our testing, we found that for screen reader users, automatic narration—or even advancing to the next slide without a built-in pause—can result in the narration and screen reader talking over each other, making it difficult to follow. Requiring a manual “play” click helps prevent that overlap and gives the learner more control.
That said, I’m not familiar with the specifics of the term “global setting.” If there’s a way for learners to toggle that feature on or off—similar to how Closed Captions can be enabled—I’d be very interested in learning more. It would be incredibly helpful to offer that kind of flexibility. Could you share more details about how that might work or where I could explore it further?