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Recent accessibility improvements in Storyline 360
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I really wish we had, at least, the option of using the old or new accessibility player going forward. Government clients are used to tabbing all the way through each slide.
I'll share what I've said in the past...
Here's my take. We've all gotten used to tabbing between all the items (text, buttons, images, etc.) on our slides because that's the only way Storyline has ever worked. Use a screen reader on a regular webpage, though, and you'll see that the TAB button only navigates between interactive objects like a hyperlink or a button. (BTW, hyperlinks are still not tabbable in the "accessible player" and that's lame.)
You know what stinks if you're disabled? Being told that "accessibility in this course works differently than it does for you anywhere else." Forcing disabled users to use the TAB key to access everything was the real crime.
So, that's how Storyline works now, too. You tab between interactive elements. Now, if you want to read what's on the screen, you use the down arrow (in JAWS) or use similar commands in the other screen readers.
So, in my estimation, this was a hard change for me to adapt to. Granted, I still have issues with the way accessibility is being handled, in general, but I'm starting to see this as progress (and so is my accessibility vendor who QAs our courses).
Agree wholeheartedly with Eric in this Storyline is moving towards the way the web works which is they way our courses should work. Also it is not really about how we want them or expect them to work but how anybody who needs to use a screen reader would expect them to work.
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