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Take Zoom off pictures in RISE?
Hello everyone, 🎉
I'm happy to let you know we released a new update for Rise 360. This update allows you to turn off image zooming on Timeline and Labeled Graphic blocks. We'll let you know if this feature is also applied to other blocks. There's nothing to install for web apps. New features and fixes are immediately available, though you might need to export your Rise 360 course again.
Let me know if you have any questions about this update or the new enhancement!
To echo others in this thread, from an accessibility standpoint, the ability to turn off the zoom feature is essential. Not only is it an annoying button to have to keep tabbing past, but it's also confusing for users if the image is presumably decorative and should be ignored by a screen reader. Right now, our workaround has been to simply include "decorative" as the alt text so that if a user hears the button read aloud, they will at least know they're not missing important information that has only been included as a visual element. But this is not an ideal solution - as suggested by Peter Axtell, the default should be zoom OFF for all images throughout the course; opting IN to a zoom function per image would be much better. It is misleading when you claim that Rise sets images to decorative, or alt="", by default, given that this button is annouced. Big miss here that has been an active concern going on six years, based on this thread!