Forum Discussion
RISE - accessibility features
One year ago there was a discussion around accessibility - WCAG AA, WAI-ARIA Labels, Section 508, DDA, Equality Act and Screen Reader Supports.
It was noted that Articulate were working on this a...
Hi Brian!
Rise isn't fully accessible yet. Our ultimate goal is to meet accessibility guidelines. So far, we’ve increased the contrast for built-in course features, added alt text for images, and added keyboard-accessible navigation. And we’re currently working on full screen reader support. Stay tuned!
Is that for both the authorware side as well as the content that is produced? I do not understand why - in this day and age - products are not produced with accessibility as a central tenet of the core design.
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Hi Brian! Our accessibility improvements are for the learner. Thanks for your sharing your thoughts and feedback with us, we do appreciate it.
For what it's worth, my colleague and I put together an in-house VPAT Template for Rise. As of this writing, it is somewhat better than it one was (as of the Jan 19 update), but still has some significant problems.
Note that this document is looking for *minimum standard of accessibility* at the A and AA level. It doesn't get into the great ideas others have here for enhancement.
This is Great Eric! Thanks for sharing that
Really looking forward for major improvements on the accessibility of Rise. I work for a government organization and we need our courses to meet WCAG 2.0 AA.
