I know Articulate has been making great strides to make all Rise blocks accessible. I'm looking to flag inaccessible Rise blocks for content creators so they know to avoid those when creating new courses. What Rise blocks still need to be updated to be accessible?
It seems like flash cards, carousels and quote blocks are now accessible. I'm assuming matching, sorting, and scenarios still have accessibility issues. Please let me know if you have more information about which blocks are accessible.
The [Rise] blocks listed below aren’t yet WCAG 2.1 conformant. If you use them in your lessons, you’ll want to provide alternatives as well, such as a text block that summarizes the same information.
Quote and image carousels aren't fully keyboard accessible and don't have a defined hierarchy.
Scenario blocks don't support alt text.
Sorting activity blocks don't have accessible instructions or status messages.
Matching knowledge checks don't provide a meaningful sequence or a defined hierarchy when accessed via screen reader. They also aren't keyboard accessible and don't provide accessible instructions or status messages.
Thank you for your reply. I agree with you about the blocks for scenarios, sorting activities, and matching being inaccessible. However, quote and image blocks have been mentioned in their accessibility journey page as being improved.
I am able to navigate with the keyboard on the carousel and quote blocks. I was able to use VoiceOver to navigate too. Is there more info about the functional barriers a user may encounter when interacting with these elements?
It should be noted that what appears above in my previous post, is a direct copy and paste from the Articulate web site (link provided) and is not my personal opinion.
Thank you, Karl. I am familiar with the page you linked too. I'm sorry I didn't mean to make it seem like it was your opinion.
I'm hoping to get feedback from someone at Articulate about quote and image blocks and what functional barriers currently exist and what improvements are still on their roadmap.
My colleague did some testing and the issue with the carousels is that they do not announce to screen reader users the number of items included in the carousel. Also the little circles that switch to the different items in the carousel are not keyboard accessible. The single quote and grid photo options are accessible. Hopefully, Articulate will make their carousels accessible in a future update.
As Accessibility is a critical part of our roadmap, rest assured that our engineers are working to make Rise fully accessible. Currently, these accessibility features are still being evaluated by our team. You can bookmark this page to keep up with the Articulate 360 features that are currently in development:
Thank you, Angelo! I really appreciate the progress Articulate is making on accessibility and I will continue to check the pages you provided for updates.
Is anyone able to clarify which interactions are covered by 'carousel'? I can only see one interaction called a carousel - within the image gallery section. Does that mean that flashcard stacks and Process interactions are accessible, even though they look a bit similar?
While we don't have any new updates to share regarding the updates of the remaining inaccessible blocks, our commitment to accessibility still takes top priority. We'll update the article above and our product roadmap as soon as work on improving Rise 360 blocks gets started.
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Hi Auston,
Inaccessible Blocks
The [Rise] blocks listed below aren’t yet WCAG 2.1 conformant. If you use them in your lessons, you’ll want to provide alternatives as well, such as a text block that summarizes the same information.
Source https://articulate.com/support/article/Rise-360-How-to-Design-an-Accessible-Course
Hi Karl,
Thank you for your reply. I agree with you about the blocks for scenarios, sorting activities, and matching being inaccessible. However, quote and image blocks have been mentioned in their accessibility journey page as being improved.
I am able to navigate with the keyboard on the carousel and quote blocks. I was able to use VoiceOver to navigate too. Is there more info about the functional barriers a user may encounter when interacting with these elements?
Hi Auston,
It should be noted that what appears above in my previous post, is a direct copy and paste from the Articulate web site (link provided) and is not my personal opinion.
Thank you, Karl. I am familiar with the page you linked too. I'm sorry I didn't mean to make it seem like it was your opinion.
I'm hoping to get feedback from someone at Articulate about quote and image blocks and what functional barriers currently exist and what improvements are still on their roadmap.
My colleague did some testing and the issue with the carousels is that they do not announce to screen reader users the number of items included in the carousel. Also the little circles that switch to the different items in the carousel are not keyboard accessible. The single quote and grid photo options are accessible. Hopefully, Articulate will make their carousels accessible in a future update.
Hi Auston! Thanks for sharing your findings.
As Accessibility is a critical part of our roadmap, rest assured that our engineers are working to make Rise fully accessible. Currently, these accessibility features are still being evaluated by our team. You can bookmark this page to keep up with the Articulate 360 features that are currently in development:
Articulate 360 Feature Roadmap
In addition, this article has in-depth details about what we've been doing to improve accessibility in Rise 360:
Rise 360: Our Accessibility Journey
I hope this helps. Let me know if you need anything else.
Thank you, Angelo! I really appreciate the progress Articulate is making on accessibility and I will continue to check the pages you provided for updates.
Hi Angelo!
The above accessibility journey article is no longer available. Do you have an updated link we could use to access?
Thank you!
Hello Erin, and welcome to E-Learning Heroes!
The link in Angelo's post is still linking to an active article.
Are Rise micro learning pages accessible?
Is anyone able to clarify which interactions are covered by 'carousel'? I can only see one interaction called a carousel - within the image gallery section. Does that mean that flashcard stacks and Process interactions are accessible, even though they look a bit similar?
Hello Rebecca,
Happy to help!
These are the two carousel blocks that this article was referring to:
Image Carousel
Text Carousel
Flashcard stacks and Process interactions aren't included in the list of inaccessible blocks so you're good to go!
Fantastic, thanks!
The product roadmap doesn't list converting the remaining inaccessible Rise blocks. Are these on the plan somewhere?
Hi Allison,
We share all of our accessibility updates for Rise 360 here:
While we don't have any new updates to share regarding the updates of the remaining inaccessible blocks, our commitment to accessibility still takes top priority. We'll update the article above and our product roadmap as soon as work on improving Rise 360 blocks gets started.