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Screen readers: focus order with buttons and layers, and change state of buttons
Hi All,
This post relates to an accessibility issue that was reported to Articulate Storyline to do with focus order and screen readers in 2019.
With a module I am developing I have a slide wit...
Hi Joe, thanks for the offer of looking into this. Please see the attached file. I have not worked on slide 4 so please disregard it. The issue relates to slide 1 and 3. Looking forward to hearing back from you.
Hi Martin,
Thanks for sharing a copy of your project file.
I can confirm that I was able to observe both behaviors.
- When opening a new layer using a screen reader, the new layer does not get announced. However, if I press the down key, the next item that gets read is the title of the layer. And pressing down a few more times takes me to the text in the body of the layer. This behavior is expected, and is discussed in this document.
A workaround here would be to present your layers as 'dialogues' rather than 'layers' so they can be announced by screen readers. - The visited states do not get recognized after a tab back to a button that I had already pressed. This behavior appears to be inline with the bug that I mentioned, and it looks like swapping out the button for a shape or image file doesn't help to address the behavior.
I've added this ELH post so we can notify you as soon as a fix for the 'Visited states' issue is released.
