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Storyline Player - accessibility and learner experience
Hey All! I'm putting out a query whether anyone has stayed away from using the Storyline player because it's "a lot" for the learner who uses assistive technologies to interact with the options on the player and then the content within the slide. Would it be a more accessible experience to have everything that requires the learner to interact with, within the slide (i.e., without the player)? Thoughts?
I understand that the player has been updated for a more logical order of tabbing through the options. Yet what have people experienced ... good or bad?
Much appreciated!
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In my opinion, the player is a better experience for a learner using assistive technologies. Of course not all learners are created equal -- some may want to slow down the course using the playback speed, some learners may want to enable closed captions because they are deaf, non-native speakers of the language your course is in, or they just like closed captions (like me!). The player also allows the ability to raise or lower the volume of just the Storyline course, independent of things like a screen reader or the rest of the user's computer audio. Taking those things away from the player would be a disservice to the learner.
Turning off the player to make things easier for someone using keyboard navigation and a screen reader would almost certainly create a worse experience for everybody else who might use those player elements!
Wow! That's a great explanation. Thank you, Elizabeth!
