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Turn off marker pulse animation in Rise
I love the marker feature in Rise, but I would like to turn off the pulse animation, like you can in Storyline. I can't find where to do it. Is it possible in Rise?
Thanks.
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I have had a course fail on accessibility review due to the pulsing animations that cannot be paused or stopped by the user (or turned off in the build). Adding my request to the others
Hi Jimmy!
Thanks for the feedback! It sounds like having the option to remove the pulsing animation from Labeled Graphic Markers would greatly benefit you and your team!
I've included you in the feature report and will update this discussion as soon as we have news to share. If you'd like to stay up to date, please bookmark our Feature Roadmap.
Perhaps a well-timed social media posting may help bring this to the company's attention.
Global Accessibility Awareness Day is Thursday, May 15, 2025 - If you are so inclined.
Jimmy,
Rise users can stop the pulse animations on Labeled Graphic Markers by clicking on them (or by tabbing to them and pressing Enter). Based on my reading of the WCAG guidelines, these animations are in conformance with the guidelines since the user can disable them. I am not an expert on this topic, though, so I could be wrong.
Of course, you are right in saying that there should be an option for the developer to disable the pulse animations, because it would be tedious for a user to stop each one individually.
- Domenick
Is there any update on an option to remove the pulsing animation? I'm also having issues with it distracting from the text/details in an image
Hi Lucy!
Thanks for checking in on this!
I don't have any updates to share at this time as our development team has been prioritizing other features. Not to worry! I've included you in the feature report and will update this discussion if it makes it onto our Feature Roadmap.
Have a great rest of your week!
This accessibility requirement (and simple fix such as an option to toggle on/off or to time out pulsing) has been identified for several years now and echoed by many many users. Can you share any insight into how Articulate prioritizes requests? Accessibility is a deal breaker as a compliance requirement and could force organizations to seek another e-authoring solution.
Just adding my vote to the thread. Thanks!
Perhaps a well-timed social media posting may help bring this to the company's attention.
Global Accessibility Awareness Day is Thursday, May 15, 2025 - If you are so inclined.
Hi, I'm also adding my vote to this thread. Thanks!
Another person in this seven year long chain of requests, asking, nay, begging for this feature to be implemented for accessibility and readability.
Perhaps a well-timed social media posting may help bring this to the company's attention.
Global Accessibility Awareness Day is Thursday, May 15, 2025 - If you are so inclined.Adding my vote too - it's good e-learning design to be as inclusive as possible. The option to switch on and off at the design stage is important.
KellyRipley​ don't leave us! I did a quick debug and solution for this simple fix, here's the code used in the screen recording.
#app .labeled-graphic-marker__pin:after { animation: none; display: none; }now THIS is service! hahaha Thanks so much Phil. Ive seen several of your videos when looking into how to overcome some limitations and challenges in Rise. GREATLY appreciated. I dont see the same line items as you in Inspect BUT am passing your video along to an internal CSS developper who should be able to work from this.
PhilFoss​ Maybe Im just being a pest now, but you seem to be all over the internet offering very helpful CSS based solutions and tutorials. I am curious. If I build a course, publish for the web and make CSS changes as you have shared, am I right in assuming that if ANY changes are made to that Rise course in the future, and I republish, I would need to RE-DO the custom CSS changes every time? If so, even if I do manage to figure this out, I am not sure how sustainable that is as a solution.
Any insight you have in that regard would be super helpful!
Kelly yes that's correct, when republishing you'll need to either use the Slate plugin that automatically 'patches' your custom CSS. Or if doing it manually keep all your custom css in a separate folder so it can be easily duplicated and added to other courses after you export new courses. Never modify the css files that come from Rise, as they change often, keep your customizations separate, modular, and uninstallable.
