Storyline and ReadSpeaker

Hello Stéphanie and welcome to E-Learning Heroes :)

Thanks for reaching out and sharing what you are experiencing in your course.

I'm not familiar with ReadSpeaker, but I've seen it used to read web pages.

As far as a screen reader goes, Storyline supports JAWS screen readers with Google Chrome. You can read all about building an accessible course here.

Hopefully, someone with some experience using this product will be able to chime in to help you out.

I think this is the same issue I'm experiencing. Our College has also just implemented ReadSpeaker and now all of the many Storyline products I've developed (that were working) are in the constant spin mode!

Is there any solution short of turning off ReadSpeaker which won't happen in my environment

Hi Jennifer,

Thanks for reaching out and sharing what you're seeing with your courses as well.

I'm curious how your courses are being published and shared as well? Same LMS that was mentioned above? BrightSpace D2L?

Hi Leslie,

Yes, our College uses Brightspace / D2L to deliver online components of courses.

WARNING I might have the below explaination wrong but this is my current understanding...

I think I’ve tracked down the issue! ReadSpeaker was implemented on our LMS over the summer and with RS their TextAid add on. I guess this product runs java on all the pages it encounters and this causes the issue. Apparently this is true for SCORM packages and RS has a fix though not sure if the applies to the TextAid product we are in discovery mode at this point. BUT turning off ReadSpeaker and TextAid on our test server and then importing the SCORM Storyline product solved the issue. Thank goodness.

i want to thank you and others at Articulate for the wonderful and timely support dealing with this issue. I would rate it as EXCELLENT!

Wow, I really appreciate you popping back in to share this information with the community Jennifer.

Seems to all be specific to Brightspace D2L, which is why I asked.

Makes sense. I worded that wrong, I meant that I've only seen ReadSpeaker mentioned along with customers using D2L. Like the two go hand-in-hand :)

Hi,

Has there been any development on this issue with RS and Brightspace? We are still having issues.

Bobbi

I too am interested in hearing if there has been any progress. I am developing for a college here in Ontario Canada and since the implementation of RS, all my Storyline content is essentially unusable. I am also wondering if this behavior is specific to Storyline 3 as a colleague has developed assets in SL2 and that content appears to be working as expected.

ReadSpeaker is working with BrightSpace by D2L and they will be updating the integration and the order that ReadSpeaker and SCORM content is loaded into D2L Content.  This release is scheduled for Late Summer/Early Fall. 

 Has anyone that has a ReadSpeaker account in D2L tried to embed the RS script into the Storyline template?  ReadSpeaker offers similar integration with other content authoring tools that can embed our speech engines.    And in doing so, ReadSpeaker can designate the "Storyline player" as the default player when both are live/active in D2L.  This could be a workaround until the September new release.  

Just wondering if there is a resolution to this issue yet. Just developed an entire course in SL 360. uploaded into D2l and still see the "loading" animation. The animation hides the content from the user.