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Storyline 360: radio buttons accessibility with JAWS
I created a course containing a test with multiple choice questions utilizing radio buttons (example attached). I noticed while testing accessibility (with JAWS 16.0 and IE11) that when you tab to a radio button, it will say "radio button not checked, to change the selection press up or down arrow" however, pressing the up or down arrow doesn't do anything. Is there something I'm doing wrong when creating the test or is this an issue with Storyline 360 and radio button accessibility? No where in the documentation did I find any mention of radio buttons not being accessible, so I'm assuming its the former.
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Hello Kara,
Sorry to hear that you're running into a couple of issues with your course and JAWS.
In Update 10 of Storyline 360, we included:
Fixed: JAWS screen readers would read selected answer choices as "not checked" in HTML5 output.
You can check out the full details here.
As for the up/down arrow issue, this is one we are looking into. I'll add this thread to the report as we track user impact and so that we can update you when we can.
Hey Leslie,
Thanks for getting back to me :)
Is it possible to get an approximate timeline of when this issue will be fixed? Can I expect it within the next couple months?
Thanks!
Hi Leslie,
You stated previously that update 10 contained this fix:
Fixed: JAWS screen readers would read selected answer choices as "not checked" in HTML5 output.
I just updated Storyline to version v3.13.15006.0 and republished my course - but checked radio buttons are still being read as not checked with JAWS (16) on IE9. I published as HTML5 with Flash fallback.
Thanks!
Kara
Yes, we got the same issue when doing 508 test with JAWS. We have Storyline 3 publish output, using JAWS 16.0.4474, IE 11/Google Chrome 64.
A radio button could be checked using Space-bar but screen reader asked to using Up or Down. The Up or Down button won't do anything.
Sincerely,
Wenqing
Thanks for popping in to share Wenqing. I see that we have this listed for SL3 as well. I'll add this thread to the report so that we can update you when we can.
Adding myself to this conversation. We're having the same issue. Users are told they can/should navigate with the arrow keys in our multiple choice questions, but they have to tab/use spacebar.
Sorry this is impacting your learners as well, Joakim. We're still working through this bug, and we'll let you know as soon as a fix is released. Thanks for chiming in!
Hi, Alyssa
Our JAWS user also reported that when they go to review the question screens, the JAWS won't read which distracter is correct (that often has a green checkmark) or wrong. Wondering if this issue has been reported to you, or if you have any work around or suggestion for it.
Thank you.
Wenqing
Hi Wenqing,
I believe the issue that Matthew mentioned is about how alt text on the object's other states is not read by JAWS, both on Flash and HTML5. That is something we've reported to our team and they're investigating - but it also sounds like you're seeing this specifically on the correct/incorrect notation of a quiz review? I'd like to have our team take a look and confirm if it's the same issue, as those items are added automatically as a part of the Review - and therefore a bit of a different set up than an object state.
Can you share a copy of your .story file with our team here?
Hi Kara,
IE9 is not a supported environment for JAWS.
Storyline 360 supports these screen readers with HTML5 and Flash courses:
HTML5
- JAWS 16 or later with Internet Explorer 10 or later
- Google Chrome (latest version)
- Firefox (latest version)
Flash
- JAWS 16 or later with Internet Explorer 11 or later
My apologies, I just checked and we are actually using IE11, sorry about that!!
Hi Kara,
No worries :)
Let's dig in a bit more. Our output doesn't support a "real time" change in the state of a radio button. In other words, JAWS doesn't read "Radio button selected" as soon as a user selects it in any version of Storyline.
Is that the behavior you are reporting? It's expected that you would have to tab back to a selected radio button to hear that's it's checked.
No. I will tab to an unchecked radio button and JAWS will say "not checked", then I will select the radio button, tab away and back to it and JAWS will still say "not checked". Thanks for looking into this for me! :)
(Storyline v3.13.15006.0, HTML5 with Flash Fallback, IE11, JAWS 16.0)
I am having another problem with the radio buttons. This issue is that they are being read out of order. The attached image of a multiple choice quiz is read in the following order:
“page title, radio button, 3 of 4. Headings , radio button, 2 of 4. Breadcrumbs, radio button, 1 of 4. Links, radio button, 4 of 4.”
