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RiaFernandez
Community Member
9 years ago
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Screen Reader Accessibility for Button States

Hi there, I'm having some trouble implementing accessibility for my Pick Many activities. Screen readers do not seem to recognize the difference between a Normal state and a Selected state of a bu...
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  • KellyAuner's avatar
    KellyAuner
    4 months ago

    Hi, all!

    I have some great news to share! We just released a new version of Storyline 360 (Update 103), which included a fix for the issue where screen readers didn't always announce the visited state of buttons or shapes.

    To take advantage of this update, simply launch the Articulate 360 desktop app on your computer and click the Update button next to Storyline 360. You'll find step-by-step instructions here.

    Please let us know if you have any questions by posting here or reaching out to our Support Engineers directly. We'll be happy to help!

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EllenNixon-faeb
Community Member
6 years ago

Does this mean that if the states had different alt text than the tab order alt text, the states alt text won't be read? For example, in a selected state, I have "......info reviewed." Should this still be read by JAWS? 

 

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VinceScoma
Community Member
6 years ago

Hi Ellen,

Great question! With Update 34, objects that have multiple states should have the appropriate alt text narrated from the tab order. If an object doesn’t have alternate text, screen readers will read the name of that object as it appears in the timeline.