Real talk about accessibility shortcomings in Storyline and Rise

I understand your frustration, Joel. It's been a long journey getting Storyline accessible, but I've definitely seen progress in the last few years. There are a lot less "does not support" in my recent VPATs than there used to be. 

At my company, we recently started including audio descriptions and here's how we handle it. From the original video, we create a copy and add the audio descriptions to the audio track using Adobe Creative Cloud tools. We were originally trying to keep the two videos the same length, but we found that we were really trying to cram some of the descriptions into a tight space and so we extended the audio track as much as necessary and froze the video track while the descriptions were playing. 

Once the new video was created, we created a separate slide for the audio description video. Then, at the beginning of the course, we present the learners with a checkbox explaining audio descriptions and asking if they'd like them turned on/off throughout the course. After that, it's a matter of routing to the correct video using that variable. It's not as elegant as being able to switch between audio tracks while watching the video, but it works for us.

Oh, we found this and it's been helpful when creating the audio description track: https://partnerhelp.netflixstudios.com/hc/en-us/articles/215510667-Audio-Description-Style-Guide-v2-3

Let me know if you have any questions about our approach.