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Rise scenario characters with visible disabilities
Hello
I create Rise learning for support/care workers in the disability sector. I was wondering if you can include one or two Rise scenario characters with visible disabilities.
You could at least give options to add a wheelchair, walking stick or cane to an existing scenario character. This will help greatly in the meantime.
Thank you!
Sumant
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I agree! Thanks for already raising this everyone.
Essential. I am making scenarios and have to be more inclusive in the characters please add this feature
Has there been any progress made on this?
Thank you everyone for sharing your thoughts with us. We don't have any updates yet, but we'll make sure to update this thread once we make changes that will help!
Essential feature, a serious oversight by Articulate! At least let us upload our own characters.
Yes, I'm working on a scenario now for an apprenticeship course and need a character with a visible disability.
- We don't have any updates on this yet but one of our community members, Matt Basuk has shared a workaround to upload your own custom character for scenarios. I hope this helps you!
I created this thread 2 years ago. Any updates on this please? We struggle to use Rise scenarios because of the absence of characters with visible disabilities. Please make this a priority. Thank you in advance!
Hi Sumant, we don't have this feature in our roadmap but I'll be sure to share updates here if anything changes. In the meantime, have you tried the workaround shared by Matt Basuk here? I hope this helps!
Hi Leo, that is very sad to hear. We are unable to use the scenario feature most of the time due to this. I hope you will consider this addition for the sake of everyone else who is wanting this feature.
Yes, I have seen the workaround, which is only applied until you re-export the course and then the changes are gone. Thanks anyway.
Perhaps something for your team to consider is to provide a scenario template in Storyline which works similar to a scenario block in Rise. That will help a lot. Thank you.
Hi Leo, that is very sad to hear. We are unable to use the scenario feature most of the time due to this. I hope you will consider this addition for the sake of everyone else who is wanting this feature.
Yes, I have seen the workaround, which is only applied until you re-export the course and then the changes are gone. Thanks anyway.
Perhaps something for your team to consider is to provide a scenario template in Storyline which works similar to a scenario block in Rise. That will help a lot. Thank you.
My organization will probably discontinue our subscription because of this. We work with individuals who have limb loss and there are no characters with prosthetic devices. There are 2 million individuals with limb loss in the US, please expand your roadmap to include these folks. It's long overdue.
I totally agree with you Paul Sewell. You have no idea how many times we have had to stay away from using scenarios entirely for similar reasons. What a waste of a great feature when we can't cater for/represent people of all abilities in this world. I hope these comments are heard and addressed soon!
There seems to be a lot of focus on visible challenges, but statistically speaking, most people who are/were legally disabled do not have physical challenges. It is good to be mindful to ensure we represent those with disabilities as a part of our development efforts. However, the lack of a wide variety of image-representation of visible physical challenges does not prevent us from being more inclusive of those with disabilities.
Perhaps we could consider how to convey the invisible disabilities instead effectively? I realize this is more challenging as it requires getting into the headspace of those with these challenges and figuring out how to represent that in a way the learner will understand.
Not an easy task for neurotypical people, but that is why we, as educational content developers, need to lead this effort. Instead of demanding service animals, folks with canes, and people in various wheelchairs/walkers/braces/etc., perhaps we rise to the occasion and figure out how to be more inclusive of those we have repeatedly overlooked for centuries?
Instead of threatening to pull our subscriptions from the service, could we make a concerted effort to include representation of those whose disabilities are not easily detected by the eye?
I am just putting it out there for thought.Any updated on this topic?
Any updates on this question? Shouldn't be too hard to include stock images of disabed people to include in scenarios.
