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KennyDyer-44519
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2 years ago
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Screen Reader Not Reading Button States

Hey everyone, I noticed that after the last couple of Storyline 360 updates, my screen reader (JAWS and NVDA) no longer reads the alt text for button states. For example, I added "visited" for the a...
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  • KellyAuner's avatar
    KellyAuner
    3 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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JoseTansengco
Staff
2 years ago

Hello Kenny,

Sorry to hear that you ran into this snag. 

We are currently tracking a known issue where the visited state of buttons or shapes is announced/read intermittently by JAWS or NVDA. I've added this ELH post to the bug report so we can notify you as soon as any new updates are shared. Just to confirm if you are being affected by this bug, would you mind replacing the button in your course with an image file that has similar states and 'alt text' and let me know if your screen readers will now read the states correctly?