In Case You Missed It (ICYMI): Accessibility Updates in Q4 2024
Welcome to 2025! Since my last update, this accessibility group has grown by 61 members, bringing its total to 403 members. The first ICYMI edition was published on October 23, 2024, and established a foundation, but we can keep it short and sweet from now on. Product Updates: Rise 360 New: Immerse all learners in customizable interactive experiences with accessible scenario blocks that offer alternative text, screen reader support, and a visible focus indicator. New: Select the source course language when exporting your training for translation. Enhanced: Select the text of a hyperlink to apply formatting, including changing the color of the text. Enhanced: Line height and letter spacing are now available in the text formatting toolbar. Storyline 360 Enhanced: Expand your reach with a new AI text-to-speech model that supports Hungarian, Norwegian, and Vietnamese in addition to the 29 other languages already supported. Enhanced: You can now add text-to-speech narration and sound effects to markers. Fixed: Text alignment wasn't preserved in existing projects. Upcoming accessibility features: We've released Rise Accessible Drag-and-Drop Questions (Q1 2025, but released before posting this) and added Rise Math Equations. Current accessibility items on our feature roadmap include: Storyline Accessibility Checker Storyline Math Equations Rise Math Equations Updates in articles, documentation, resource center, or training: Refreshed: Storyline 360: Working with Hyperlinks New blog: What Is Section 508? A Quick Guide to Section 508 Compliance Upcoming webinar: Beginner's Guide to NVDA and Storyline for Accessibility Testing New entry in Storyline 360: Our Accessibility Journey - Accessibility Enhancements to Kick Off 2025Link Purpose not clear in topic heading in Menu
The purpose of the link is made unclear, this ensures users are unaware on where the link actually takes them. Using Jaws, the screen reader repeats the title of the module on menu as "Link: Title of the Menu". When we click on the Link, it takes us to the Home Page/Cover Page of the Course. Hence it should clearly mention that the link takes to the Cover Page of the course. This is an accessibility issue. Are there any way to make the screen reader say the exact location where the menu Title links takes the learner. Any solution to this appreciatedScreen reader focus placed at the bottom of new content
Hello! I perform accessibility evaluations for my organization and recently noticed a screen reader barrier than I had not seen in previous Rise 360 trainings. When completing a section within a module and selecting Continue, the screen reader focus is placed at the bottom of the content, making it appear as though no new content has loaded unless the user navigates backwards or to the top of the page and through all of the previously loaded content. This doesn't happen when hitting Continue to load more content within a section, only when completing one section and moving into the next. (I apologize for not knowing platform specific terms, I haven't built a course myself!) I'm wondering if anyone else has encountered this, and whether it might be due to one of the recent updates, since this was a training newly exported in the past week. Thank you to anyone who might know more!508 and Course navigation with embedded Link
I'm hoping someone can help me. We have some SharePoint Links embedded in our Rise 360 course, and the links take the learner outside the carousel and open in a new window. For 508 compliance, the learner then has to "tab" through the entire page to return to where they left off on the training. Is there a setting where the learner can return to where they left off in the training without tabbing through everything? From our 508 reviewer, we are getting "the focus order of the slide is out of order." I would appreciate any guidance on this. Thanks!Screen Reader and Button States
I've tested quiz questions and NVDA does indicate which of the quiz choices has been selected. However, I just found out today that NVDA does not indicate the state of buttons on a slide. Is this just a quirk with NVDA? Does JAWS indicate the state of buttons on a slide, as in, which buttons have been selected or visited, and which have not been selected and visited?Wrong Aria label for Radiobutton groups in RISE 360
Radiobutton groups: The aria-label attribute is not allowed as the generic role; The paragraph element is not expected inside the radiogroup role. Steps to produce the issue for Radio button group: Find radiobuttons, open dev tools , launch ARC Toolkit and run tests. Are there any solution to correct the aria tagFocus is moving away from the dialog box in language selection page
The focus should stay in the first dialogue box but instead the screen reader is reading the content in the background. This is an accessibility issue. After Localization and publishing the course, when we come to the language selection page, the screen reader is reading the content of the main page (Heading of the course and topics of the course) instead of the language selection box. I tested the issue again with Jaws on Edge browser. The issue is there with Jaws.
