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Scroll bars appearing with Accessible Text when text boxes are set to Resize Shape to Fit Text
Thanks Jose, I did have to increase the size of boxes to eliminate the scroll bars, but this seems like kind of a bug because I had set the boxes to "Expand Height" automatically to fit the text. I wanted this setting to prevent the scroll bars from appearing by expanding the height of the box automatically - it seems like that's what it should do. However, it appears that option only expands the height in the development space and then that height gets locked in when it's published? Multiple testers saw the scrollbars and I don't think any of them had custom display settings in their browser, so that's just the default view. Therefore, it doesn't seem like I can use that option and still publish a project without the risk scrollbars appearing with accessible text. I can't, for example, tell it to overflow the textbox rather than add scrollbars, because those options aren't available because the box is already set to expand to fit.
So my solution is to just not use the "Expand Height" option for text boxes, which is a shame because that's generally the option I'd like to use. I'd love for the boxes to either expand height to fit the text when users are viewing it, or if the expand to fit only applies in the development file but the size is locked in when users view it, I'd love to have options for what happens if it doesn't fit (i.e. overflow, scrollbars, shrink to fit).
I already adjusted all the boxes in the project so I don't have the file as it was and when I reset the boxes to re-introduce the problem I was having trouble getting it to reappear because it's only showing up intermittently (which is also strange because all the text boxes have the same setting). But I don't trust that the problem is eliminated. I've attached a screenshot from an earlier Review link. Each bullet is a separate text box to appear in sync with the voiceover. They all have the same settings, but one of them gets this little scrollbar because one of the words got pushed to the next line and the box didn't expand to fit. I know if the box expanded that would create other layout problems, but I could work with that.
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