Value of adding audio narration to Rise lessons?

Hi Stephanie

My latest course I used an Audio narration (exported from Storyline) on every second lesson block

It allowed more information to be provided to the learner without lots of text

The blocks without narration I made as interactive as possible to keep learner engagement

Good luck

I think it's important to distinguish between usability and accessibility. A website (or elearning course) can meet WCAG requirements without including audio for all the onscreen content. It can actually break accessibility if it's implemented in a way that "breaks" the flow of information for screen reader users.

If the audio is being included to improve usability and inclusivity, and it doesn't negatively impact accessibility for keyboard and screen reader users, then that makes sense. If if creates an extra burden for keyboard and screen reader users, or disorients them, then I'd question the choice.

Rise is a great authoring tool, but the inability to add real-time audio to text sections is extremely frustrating. Most courses these days require both text and audio to be available for accessibility reasons. It would be great if Articulate could solve this. 

Thanks

I think the abscence of narration is lame. The excuse I read was even lamer (web trends?).

What makes it worse is that we can only offer the imported audio to be lauched by a micro button nestled in a tile.

Is there a way, if audio must be launched, to alter the appearance and or size of (see attached) the tool?

I do think some learners like to launch audio files and listen, even in a design in Rise that expects them to read the text, and I did end up including audio with each text block. I don't know of a way to alter the appearance of the audio play button and I don't think it was an issue for our learners. In the course overview we let them know how to launch it.

Hi Stephanie! There is currently no option to customize the audio player in Rise.  I'll be sure to update you here if we make changes that will help in the future!

In the meantime, you can make your audio blocks more noticeable by changing the background color of the block, and making the font caption larger.

I hope this helps!

I know this is an old thread, but one important comment that is missing is that lack of audio will diminish accessibility and does not meet WCAG and other accessibility standards for the visually impaired.

Hi Christopher,

Has there been any update to the narration/real-time audio feature that Alex mentioned above? Accessibility is so important and Rise truly stands to benefit from the addition of such a feature.