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EmmaSpencer-d12
Community Member
6 years ago

Screen readers and layers

I am working on a project that we are testing for accessibility using NVDA and JAWS. A lot of the information we are providing is using buttons that reveal layers.  The problem we are having is t...
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LeslieMcKerchie
Staff
2 years ago

Hi Brandy,

I appreciate you sharing what you are currently experiencing in your course and for the link to the course in Review 360. 

I could locate a Storyline block in Lesson 3, so I looked at this one using NVDA in Chrome.

I am able to see the layer content change on the mobile device screen on the right and the content is read to me by the screen reader.

Here's a snippet of the text viewer (ignore where I went to the toxic button a couple of times to get my bearings):

So, I have a few questions:

  • What screen reader and browser are you using to test?
  • How are you navigating the content?
    • You mentioned the screen reader skips past my storyline block altogether, but I cannot replicate this behavior by using tab navigation or the down arrow.
    • You also mentioned, that once inside the storyline block, and you select the button, the slide layer is not accessible to screen readers when the button is clicked.
      • Is the content changing, or is the layer not being activated? If the content changes, use the down arrow to listen to the layer content.

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