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Storyline Accessibility Issue
Hello all,
I am currently building out a course that will have 5 different SCORM files. In files 1-3 the focus order is automatically displaying the course title.
Note: The course title refers to the 'Player Feature: Title' that appears at the top of the screen near the menu when participants are accessing the course.
File 4 is being very weird and is not displaying the course title at all except for one slide and it displays the wrong course title. The title is set correctly in the player, I have gone into the slide master and am unable to find and turn on/off the slide master title accessibility. In the focus order screen I am unable to delete it or type in alt text.
Question 1: how do I turn off the course title in the focus reader while still displaying the title at the top of the screen?
Question 2: If I can't do the above, how do I turn on the title so it is also included in the focus order for lesson 4 and is the correct title?
Below is what the focus order looks like for file 1-3 with the 'Slide Master - Title' included
Below is the focus order with the incorrect Slide Master - Title, it should read "Social Media" instead of "Environmental Scan".
Below is the focus order with the missing 'Slide Master - Title' from the 4th file
- SamHillSuper Hero
HI @ElyseGentile the title, "slide: The Title", that is read by the screen reader, is the title that appears at the bottom of the slide in the Scenes (excluding the number):
The HTML page title will always use the title that you have defined in the player > Player Features > Title, regardless of whether the title is switched on/off. You will also have the slide title, which will be read by a screen reader as "slide: {x}" where "{x}" is the title of the slide that appears below the slide in the Scenes view.
If you find any of your text boxes are not reading the correct text, check the ALT text and ensure it is picking up the text in the text box.
How is should look (greyed out) if picking up the text in the text box.How it looks (darker) when the connection between the text in the field and ALT text is broken.If you'd like me to take a look at any specific files, I'm happy to.
- rachelatkaiserCommunity Member
Hi Elyse!
The titles that you're highlighting in your focus order screenshots are actually on the slide master (not the course player). You have to turn this off in the Slide Master (you were on the right track 🙂), and you're right, there isn't a Focus Order button in the Slide Master area. Instead, you have to find the textbox with the title, right-click it, choose Accessibility, and uncheck the "Object is visible to accessibility tools" checkbox (as Sam has described).
Don't forget that when you're in the Slide Master area, the textbox may actually be in the overarching Master Slide and not the layout.
- ElyseGentileCommunity Member
Hi SamHill and rachelatkaiser
Thanks for your responses! I've attached some screenshots to provide some clarification...the title in question is not on any of the master slides, I can not go in there and turn off its visibility to the screen reader nor is it the title on the actual slide meaning I also can not turn it off there. It is the title that I set in the player (highlighted in the player screenshot).
No titles are on the master slideThe title that is showing up incorrectly or not at all is the title in the player
Here is where it is showing up incorrectly in the focus order
- rachelatkaiserCommunity Member
Thank you for sharing more info ElyseGentile ! The thing is, as far as I know, course player elements cannot be added or removed from the Focus Order dialog box. The Focus Order list only includes slide elements. So the course player title that's read by the screen reader is separate from the title you're seeing in the focus order. If they are sometimes the same, it could just be a coincidence.
Do you have any layers? If so, maybe the title is on a feedback master?
- ElyseGentileCommunity Member
Hi Rachel,
The only place that those titles are typed in are the player menu. If I remove the title from the player then it gets removed from the focus order.....but also removes it from the top of the screen when a participant is in the course which is not ideal.
- SamHillSuper Hero
Hi ElyseGentile you will not see the title in the focus order. It is placed in the HTML <title> element, and so is one of the first elements in the page that is read. You will be able to see it in the Elements tab if you hit F12 on your browser and search for <title>. This is hard coded and cannot be manipulated in the focus order.