Screen reader reading objects in states that it shouldn't "see"

I'm not sure if this will work for everyone who posted earlier, but this is how I fixed it. What was happening to me is NVDA was announcing "freeform [#]" when I hadn't set alt text to null on all parts of svg graphics. If you publish the file to Review 360, then use DevTools in Chrome, you can search for "freeform" in the elements pane. Once you find all of the places in the svg that show up as "Freeform", you can go back to the Storyline file, zoom into the graphic and pick the little parts that aren't hidden. Then, you set those to null alt text in the "Size and Position" > "Accessibility" dialog. These don't show up in Focus Order and sometimes you have to do this with "States" enabled on the object. It's picky work, but does solve the problem.

I don't really think this is an articulate issue. If you happen to choose a graphic that is an svg, you just have to make sure you set the alt text to null on all of the parts. Or, flatten the graphic to a .png or .jpg before you use it. That's another option.