Storyline and JAWS - setting course up and testing with JAWS

Kristin,

Hi -I'm still here! I would love to be able to tell you that we figured everything out related to Storyline, 508 compliance and JAWS. Unfortunately, we never got much farther than this post or others where I posted asking for tutorials, guides, or anything helpful related to 508 compliance course set up and testing.

While I haven't been searching lately, I've not seen Articulate post a 'best practices' for how to set a course up best for 508 compliance, or what steps need to be followed to test it correctly with a JAWS reader. In one post I was told by Jeanette Brooks (Sept 2012 "tutorial on 508 compliance) it was 'in the works' and would be coming soon, but that it was difficult to set up guidelines since all 508 might be client-specific on what they required. 

Ultimately, our government client has our "screen reader" version of the course we created for them, but there hasn't been anyone on their end with JAWS that was able to successfully test the course and provide feedback. Our other way to have workable content for a user needing 508 was to essentially create an ebook. We've not yet had another client requesting 508 compliance, so we moved away from the issue for now.

So, yes, Articulate will say it's compliant and point you toward their webpage that says it's compliant, but after a year and a half of asking on the forum for assistance, I've yet to see specific tutorials or best practices from Articulate on how to correctly set up the course so it can be tested. It's hard for most designers to test internally since we don't own JAWS.

Maybe I've missed information on best practices. I'm not on the forum regularly. I know many other forum members have come up with bits and pieces of 508 solutions. 

Sorry I couldn't be of more help.