Forum Discussion
Question slides - Narration & 508
I'm working towards getting a course more accessible. I've read A LOT, but I can't seem to find much that pertains specifically to question slides. For instance, I have a question like this. I know it should be narrated for accessibility, but how do you go about narrating the choices? I could see maybe turning off the shuffle and narrating the responses as part of the question's narration?
Additionally, do you usually let the narration play like a regular slide, or do you put a "click to listen" type button on the slide?
For wordy answer options, I let the screen reader pick up the answer options. So, in this case, I would use the narration (text to speech) to read the question. Then I would add something like...please make your selection from the answer options and click the submit button...something like that. I make both the question and answers accessible. So a person who is using a screen reader can move at their own pace, going between the options before clicking the submit button. If there is a better way to do this, then I am open to suggestions.
I was thinking about doing it that way, too. But I was thinking about students who maybe need accommodations to have text read to them, but are not using screen readers (because our audience is high school). So then I got stuck again. :)
Maybe you can use your Click to Listen idea but with each answer choice. So, create a trigger button for each answer choice that gives the person the option to have it read out loud or not.
That's a good idea!
The best way to find out is to try out a screen reader software yourself. There are free ones like https://www.nvaccess.org/
Also alot of smart phones, including every iphone, has smart reader software already in it. If like me you use an iphone drag 2 fingers down from near the top of the screen to have it read your review 360 link.The reason I suggest listening to it first is you suddenly get how storyline handles things, how layers work (badly) with screen readers etc.
I still don't no how i'm going to handle a few questions that have a lot of layers and iterative feedback.
