Control RISE entrance bloc animations

Hello Articulate team,

Thank you for making such a user-friendly product and updating often to conform to accessibility. More specifically, thank you for listening to your clients and users when we have ideas/issues. (I'm sure you saw this coming!)

 

My name is Emmy and my amazing team at eConcordia designs eLearning modules using RISE and Storyline for thousands of higher education students. We noticed an accessibility concern with the animation style in the bloc-entrance feature, so we wanted to bring it to your attention.

Many of the images that appear slide in from either left or right. This can cause motion-sickness in learners, also referred to as cybersickness, and cause fatigue, nausea, and headaches.

 

Is it possible to revise the options in the bloc-entrance animations so that we can have only fade-ins, or so that we can control slightly the way things animate-in? We want to keep the animation feature but have an improved, more accessible version.

 

Here are a few articles that support the notion that motion-sickness can be caused by certain animation styles:

Applying Navigability & Accessibility to a Self-Coded Digital Interactive Portfolio

https://soar.suny.edu/handle/20.500.12648/10433

Giving a Great Lecture: Going from Fine to Fantastic

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-03041780-2_3

Your Interactive Makes Me Sick

https://source.opennews.org/articles/motion-sick/

Cybersickness: What It Is, Symptoms, Causes, and Treatments

https://www.healthline.com/health/cybersickness

Thank you so much, we are hoping to hear from you soon.