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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 and that there would be further developments in this regard. Have the accessibility issues been addressed. This is important for me as I am about to develop a course and would like to use RISE rather than Storyline.
Thank you
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Agreeing with Mark and Ashely here, too.
I would love some solid information as well.
Currently, we do use and recommend Storyline because you can *make* the content accessible but it is not simple, or seamless, and this is a turn off to some of the folx we train to use authoring tools to create learning experiences. Some of those folx then read the... highlights... that articulate shares about Rise and think it's a solution that we somehow overlooked. Of course that is untrue, we keep up with it, but still cannot recommend it. So once we explain that what is written about accessibility is – and I am trying to be kind here – not a full picture of all that is necessary for accessibility, it really diminished the reputation of the entire suite of tools. So, we now actively steer folx away from Rise at the outset because it's not accessible and can't be made accessible to our standards, and ultimately makes our job harder with regard to trying to standardize on one suite of tools for our design and development cycles.Hello! Great to see more accessibility features for Rise 360 are in development etc...
As I'm about to design a new course to meet accessibility standards, would be great to have an overview of the Rise blocks vs accessibility conformance etc. I have looked through the Accessibility Collection, and other than the features mentioned 'in development' - cannot see an overview. Just wondered if this does exist as I know people have requested earlier in this thread?
Thanks in advance!
Are these interactions in Rise WCAG 2.1 AA compliant?
Carousels
Scenario Blocks
Flashcards
Hi Nadine,
The accessibility status of those interactions are stated here: https://articulate.com/support/article/Articulate-360-Feature-Roadmap#rise-360
Thank you Karl. Do we have an idea of timeline?
I ran first accessibility test and found the 3 features have 'barriers'.
We are sending ours to be audited - WCAG Level 2 soon. It'll be interesting to learn what Rise and Storyline 360 features to use and not.
Hi Suziana,
If you're able to share any of the findings from the audit, that would be very helpful. I posted the key findings of an external accessibility audit on one of our courses earlier in this chat. I'm interested to see whether any of the issues I flagged with Articulate from that audit have been resolved.
Thanks,Ashley
Will do. At the moment, I don't use: 1) Flip cards 2) Interaction process 3) Accordion (due to the + icons). I use SL block a lot because I can control the Focus Order.
Knowledge check block is also problematic. So, I removed them and used SL or LMS built-in quiz builder.
We finally got our WCAG certificate! Hey Articulate, I really defended Rise and it has not been easy. There are lots of issues with the features there. SL 360 fares better than Rise though.
Large part is also about focus order and alt text for complex diagrams.
But we got there at the end.
