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Articulate Localization: Create Multi-Language Storyline 360 Projects
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Reach 360: Manage API Keys
To use the Reach 360 API, you need API keys. Once generated, API keys give you access to the API and let us help you out in the event something’s not working right. Creating them is quick and easy to do! Here’s how. Generate API Keys Manage API Keys Step 1: Generate API Keys API keys provide access to the Reach 360 API. A best practice is to generate a key for each app or integration you’re using. That way, if there’s an issue with a particular implementation, you can delete it without undoing all your API work. Note: You can see the value of an API key only at generation. Once you receive a generated key, treat it like a password. Save API keys in a secure file or application, keeping them out of version control systems, and accessible only to authorized personnel. Navigate to Manage > Settings. Click Manage API Keys. Click Generate New Key. Enter a name for your key. This can be anything you like, but we recommend that it reflects the name of the application or integration the key will be used for. Click Generate Key. Copy the new API key that displays. This will be your only chance to copy the key. If you navigate away from this page before copying the key, you must delete it and generate a new one. Treat it like you would a password. Reach 360 Support will never ask for your API key. Note: Reach 360 also sends notification emails to you and the account owner when each API key is created, but these emails don't contain the API key. Save your new API key to a secure file or application. Treat it like a password. Add as many API keys as you need, copying and saving them as they’re generated. Go back to Settings when you’re done generating keys. Step 2: Manage API Keys Once your API keys are generated, you can get usage information about each one and delete them if necessary. See all the keys generated for your account by selecting the Manage > Settings tab and clicking Manage API Keys. The API Keys page lists your generated API keys, when (and by whom) they were generated, and the last time they were used. You can’t access API key values. Revoke individual API keys by clicking the trash can icon that appears when you hover over the entry. It’s revoked once you click I Understand, Revoke This Key to confirm. You can also revoke all generated API keys at once by clicking Revoke All. You’ll need to enter DELETE and click Revoke All to confirm. Note: When you revoke an API key, the applications and integrations using it will no longer be able to access the Reach 360 API. You can’t recover revoked API keys.
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Articulate Localization: Overview
Develop high-quality localized courses seamlessly with Articulate Localization, a localization solution integrated right into Articulate’s unparalleled authoring platform. This overview covers the basics of Articulate Localization and explains how to access it. What Articulate Localization Does What Languages Are Available What Gets Translated How to Access Localization What Articulate Localization Does Articulate Localization helps you upskill your global learners more quickly and efficiently with three primary processes: One-Click AI Translation Instantly translate Rise 360 and Storyline 360 courses into 70+ languages with fully integrated AI translation. Upload custom glossaries to maintain consistency and incorporate specialized terminology. In-Context Language Validation Verify the accuracy of localized content with a new language validation experience in Review 360. Validators can preview their changes in context, and authors can import them directly back into the source project. Multi-language Workflow Management Streamline end-to-end localization for your Rise 360 and Storyline 360 courses. Manage all your languages in a single project, keep track of the validation process in Review 360, and publish all languages at once to Reach 360 or your LMS. What Languages Are Available Translate your content into over 70 languages, including certain regional variations such as Canadian French and Brazilian Portuguese. Afrikaans Farsi (Persian) Kannada Russian Albanian Filipino, Tagalog Kazakh Serbian Amharic Finnish Korean (Standard South Korean) Sinhala Arabic (Modern Standard Arabic) French Latvian Slovak Armenian French (Canada) Lithuanian Slovenian Azerbaijani Georgian Macedonian Somali Bengali German Malay Spanish Bosnian Greek Malayalam Spanish (Mexico) Bulgarian Gujarati Maltese Swahili Catalan Haitian Creole Marathi Swedish Chinese (Simplified) Hausa Mongolian Tamil Chinese (Traditional) Hebrew Norwegian Telugu Croatian Hindi Norwegian (Bokmål) Thai Czech Hungarian Pashto Turkish Danish Icelandic Polish Ukrainian Dari Indonesian Portuguese (Brazil) Urdu Dutch Irish Portuguese (Portugal) Uzbek English Italian Punjabi Vietnamese Estonian Japanese Romanian Welsh Note: Many languages available for one-click translation also offer different degrees of formality. Articulate Localization defaults to Automatic, which determines the best formality level based on your content. However, you can adjust the formality of the translation based on your organization’s communication style. Tool Tip: Use our language lookup tool to see which target languages are supported for your source language and if the language pair supports glossary, formality, and right-to-left. Here’s how to use it: Launch the language lookup tool in a separate browser window. Select your source language from the Select a Source Language dropdown. A table displays all the supported target languages for the chosen source language with columns for glossary, formality, and right-to-left. A green checkmark in these columns means the corresponding target language supports it. What Gets Translated The following chart explains which parts of courses are translated and how: Part Behavior On-slide text, including slide notes and text variable values (Storyline 360 only) Automatically translated Block text (Rise 360 only) Automatically translated Closed captions (video, audio) Automatically translated Text labels in Rise 360 and player text labels in Storyline 360 Default text labels for each target language are automatically assigned. Custom text labels are not translated. However, in Rise 360, you can assign custom label sets to individual language versions after translation. Alternative text Automatically translated for customized alternative text but not default alt text generated by the app Question banks Questions drawn from question banks are translated together with the course. How to Access Localization Articulate 360 owners and account admins can start a free trial by clicking the Start a Trial button under the Localization section of the Manage Subscription page. To purchase directly, contact our sales team. During a trial, all seatholders are automatically given the ability to translate content in Rise 360 and Storyline 360 and start the localization workflow. Account owners and account admins can remove an author’s translation access via the Localization section on the Manage Team page. Translation access settings are retained when purchasing from a trial. When Localization is purchased directly without a trial, seatholders aren’t given the ability to translate by default. An account admin must navigate to the Manage Team page to grant translation access to specific seatholders. Those seatholders must start any localization workflows. Once Articulate Localization is enabled, seatholders with translation access immediately see the Translate option when they click the more (...) icon of any content tile in the Rise 360 dashboard. If it’s not showing right away, simply refresh the page. For Storyline 360, seatholders with translation access see a Translate Course option when they navigate to File > Localization. They must use Storyline version 3.94.33593.0 or later. Here’s how to check the Storyline 360 version and how to update to the latest version of the app.
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Reach 360: Understanding User Permissions and Roles
Reach 360 users can have one of four non-owner roles, starting with the lowest levels of permission and access (learners) and increasing from there (reporters, managers, and admins). Each Reach 360 account also has an owner—this is the same as your Articulate 360 Teams owner. (Looking for information on how to add users to your Reach 360 account? Check out Reach 360: Manage Users.) Discover what learners, reporters, admins, and owners can do and access below: Learners can take training. They only see the Learn tab. Reporters can take training and access automatically generated metrics, either for groups as assigned or your entire account. They have access to the Learn and Analyze tabs. Managers can take training. For their assigned group, they can invite learners, remove group members, assign training, and view reports. They have access to the Learn and Analyze tabs, as well as some sections of the Manage tab. Reach 360 admins can do almost everything. They have access to the Learn, Manage, and Analyze tabs. Articulate 360 Team admins are not Reach 360 admins by default. The owner is the person who purchased your Articulate 360 subscription. In addition to having admin rights, they can change your Reach 360 URL and enable SSO for learners. To change the owner, please contact support. Here are the tasks that can be performed in a Reach 360 account and who has permission to do them. Task Admin Manager Reporter Learner Enroll self in and take assigned training x x x x Modify your own user profile (if not managed by SSO) x x x x Manually enter course completion x x Publish and delete training (including learning paths), control library visibility x Publish directly from Rise 360 x Create and manage custom certificates x View all reports x View reports as assigned x x Invite learners (including bulk import via CSV) x x Delete learners x Create, rename, and delete groups (including via CSV) x Add and remove group members (as assigned for Managers) x x Create, rename, and delete topics x Generate API keys x Create new libraries x Enable/disable self-registration x Owner Only Change your team's subdomain Change your team’s URL to a custom domain Enable SSO for learners
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Reach 360: View Learner Reports
The Learners tab lists all users ever registered to your account, including users you’ve removed. You can sort the main list by name and total number of enrolled courses. Select a learner to access their individual report. There are three major parts to an individual learner’s report: the dashboard, status tab, and activity tab. Return to the main Learners tab by clicking the arrow next to the learner’s name in the dashboard. Viewing the Dashboard Viewing Status and Activity Viewing the Dashboard On the individual learner’s report, you’ll see a side panel listing their name, email address, and learner profile fields (if any). Below that, the dashboard widget tracks the training in which they’re enrolled, with the color of the ring reflecting how many training items are completed, in progress, or not started (overdue training is listed on the status tab). Next to the widget, you’ll see a summary of how they’re progressing through the training in which they're enrolled. To the right is the total number of hours they’ve spent learning since they joined your team. Note: Course progress isn't displayed for Storyline 360 or third-party courses. Viewing Status and Activity Note: For both the status and activity tabs, use the drop-down menu to search for a specific course or filter the current view by selected training. Status The Status tab lists all of the learners’ currently enrolled and completed training, sortable by name, status, duration, quiz score, course progress, last activity, and due date. In the due date column, overdue training is displayed in red. You can also see the date they enrolled and if they enrolled themselves. Filter this view by course using the search field. This report is exportable. Expand a row to see the learner’s activity for that specific training. This includes activity date and duration, how many lessons were viewed, and any quiz scores for the session. You’ll see 15 rows of activity. If there’s more to see, the Show all activity link displays. This takes you to the activity tab where you’ll see all historical activity for this user in the selected training. Below the training activity, there's a link to download the user's course completion certificate. Mark Training as Complete To mark a training as complete, expand a record and click Mark as complete. Click the calendar icon to choose a completion date (if other than the current date), the time it took the learner to complete the training (this must be at least 1 minute and will be added to any current activity), and a quiz score (if required). Click Mark as complete to finish. Once marked as complete, the learner can download the completion certificate from their Reach 360 dashboard. Activity The Activity tab is where you’ll see everything a user has done in Reach 360. It’s sortable by training name, date, duration, number of lessons viewed, and quiz score (with red or green values for failed and successful attempts). This report is exportable.
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Reach 360: View Course Reports
Select the Courses tab to display a list of all current and completed training for your account. You can sort them by title, number of learners enrolled, or average quiz score. Selecting an item takes you to the individual report. Note: Your view may include only a subset of your organization's content if an admin has assigned you to specific groups. Viewing the Dashboard Viewing the Status Tab Viewing the Activity Tab Viewing the Dashboard On the individual report, you’ll see a dashboard at the top with the name, number of lessons in the training, and learner statistics. If the training's been deleted, you'll be able to delete the report as well. The learners widget gives you at-a-glance insight into how learners enrolled in the training have progressed. The color ring updates to reflect the number of completed, in-progress, and unstarted learners. Next to the widget, you’ll see a breakdown of that same status information. Listed next to that is the total number of hours spent learning. If the training has a tracked quiz required for completion, you can view the average quiz score along with a link to the question-level report by selecting it in the list. Click the arrow next to the title to return to the main Courses tab. Viewing the Status Tab The Status tab lists learners currently or previously enrolled in the training, sortable by status, duration, quiz score, progress, last activity, and due date statistics. In the due date column, overdue training is displayed in red. Use the drop-down menus to filter the current view by time period, groups, or learners. You can also see the date a learner enrolled and if they enrolled themselves. This report is exportable. Note: Progress isn't displayed for Storyline 360 or third-party courses. Expand a row to see the learner’s activity. This includes activity date and duration, how many lessons were viewed, and any quiz scores for the session. You’ll see 15 rows of activity. If there’s more to see, the Show all activity link displays. This takes you to the activity tab where you’ll see all historical activity for this learner. Below the activity, there's a link to download the user's course completion certificate. Mark Training as Complete To mark the training as complete for a learner, expand the record and click Mark as complete. Click the calendar icon to choose a completion date (if other than the current date), the time it took the learner to complete the training (this must be at least 1 minute and will be added to any current activity), and a quiz score (if required). Click Mark as complete to finish. Once marked as complete, the learner can download the completion certificate from their Reach 360 dashboard. Custom Learner Profile Fields Expand a learner record to see their custom learner profile fields, if any. These fields are also included in the exported course report CSV, even if the learners included in the report don't have the custom fields as part of their record. Viewing the Activity Tab The Activity tab is where you’ll see everything learners have done in this training. It’s sortable by date, duration, number of lessons viewed, and quiz score. In the quiz score column, you'll see values in red for failed attempts, green for successful attempts, and black for training with completed quizzes that are still in progress. Use the drop-down menu to filter the current view by individual learners or groups. This report is exportable.
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Articulate 360 Teams: Understanding Content Ownership and Transfer Scenarios
Teams change, but the need to know how to handle your team’s content doesn’t. Read on to find out how ownership determines access to online content. Then, learn how to transfer content when access changes due to team departures or subscription modifications. Content Ownership The online content you create with Articulate 360 apps is owned by the subscription. It is also linked to your Articulate ID and considered your personal content. This personal content includes: Rise 360 courses, microlearning, and question banks in the private directory Unshared Rise 360 block templates Review 360 items and folders in the private directory If you share personal content with other authors or create content in team folders, it becomes shared content. That means it cannot be moved off of the subscription until it's made personal again. Shared content includes: Rise 360 courses, microlearning, and question banks in the team directory Rise 360 courses and microlearning with collaborators Shared Rise 360 block templates Review 360 items and folders in the team directory Storyline 360 shared team slides Transfer Scenarios Since the subscription owns shared content, changes in team membership and subscriptions may affect access to the content created. Here are a few scenarios where content is transferred or unlinked due to changes in subscription. Users Leave the Team Users Move to Another Subscription Subscriptions Merge Subscriptions Reduce Seats Subscriptions Expire or are Cancelled Users Leave the Team When removing a user from the subscription after someone has left, an admin must transfer the user's shared content to someone else on the team. The admin must also choose whether to include the user's personal content in the transfer or let the departing user keep it. If the admin wants to transfer the content to a new user and there's no open seat, they can temporarily add the new user as admin. Review this user guide to learn more. Users Move to Another Subscription A user can take personal content with them when they move to another subscription because that content is linked to their Articulate ID. They can turn any shared content they own into personal content by unsharing or transferring it to their private directory before they leave the current subscription. To allow a departing team member to maintain access to their personal content, choose not to include their personal content when prompted during the removal process. They'll regain access to their personal content when they join the new team. Let us know if we can help through this process. Subscriptions Merge Having one subscription for everyone on your team lets you fully utilize Articulate 360's collaborative features. Contact us using this form if you want to combine subscriptions. We'll set everything up and ensure your team's content (private and shared) remains intact. Read this article to learn what happens when merging subscriptions and how to complete the process. Subscriptions Reduce Seats If needed, you can request a seat reduction for your subscription. However, you may risk losing content if you wait for the system to remove the seatholders automatically upon renewal. To maintain access to private and shared content, make sure to free up the number of seats being reduced before the renewal date. Learn more about reducing seats in a subscription in this article. (For Articulate 360 trials, read this article when buying fewer seats than the number of users in your trial.) Subscriptions Expire or are Cancelled When you cancel your subscription or let it expire, your personal content stays with your Articulate ID, but shared content remains with the original subscription. We'll keep your content on our servers for up to six months after your paid subscription expires or your free trial ends. Read this article to know what to do before canceling your subscription. If you decide to resubscribe within six months, reach out to us using this form. We'll set you up with a new subscription and transfer shared content from the previous one. Learn more about the steps to replace a lapsed subscription.
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Rise 360: Use Your Dashboard to Manage Content
Create fully responsive e-learning content with Rise 360, an easy-to-use web app included with your Articulate 360 subscription. There’s nothing to install, so you can get started right away. U.S. and EU seatholders access Rise 360 by signing in to https://articulate.com and clicking Rise 360 on the navigation bar at the top of the screen. (Click here for a list of supported web browsers.) Note: Rise 360 users can collaborate with and send copies of courses to other Rise 360 users in the same regional data center. However, Rise 360 users can’t collaborate with or send copies of courses to Rise 360 users in a different regional data center. Learn more about our EU data center. Let’s explore the Rise 360 dashboard. Check out the video below for a guided walkthrough. Then take a look at the following image and refer to the table below to learn about each feature for managing Rise 360 content. Click image to view larger Header Feature/Location Description Switch Apps Switch to another app—collaborate with stakeholders in Review 360, take and manage training in Reach 360 (if available), register for Articulate 360 Training webinars, or return to your Articulate 360 dashboard. Edit Your Account and Update Your Profile Click your avatar to edit your account, update your profile settings, or sign out of Articulate 360. Select Deliverable Type The Content tab is selected by default. Click Question Banks to access your and your team's question repositories. Change the Layout View your content tiles in the default grid layout or switch to list view. Search Quickly find created or shared content by entering the title and pressing the enter key. Change the Sort Order Sort content by date or alphabetically by title. Rise 360 remembers your choice the next time you open your dashboard. Filter by Content Type View all types of content or filter to see only courses or microlearning content. Filter by Owner In a folder with team or shared content, filter content by author. Left Sidebar Feature/Location Description Create New Click to create a new Rise 360 course or microlearning. All Content See all your training, including content you're working on with other team members. Shared With Me Quickly access training on which you're a collaborator. My Shortcuts Bookmark private and team content you don't want to lose track of and organize it into folders. Private Work on content you aren't collaborating on with other team members. Create folders and subfolders to organize your content. Team Work on content you're collaborating on with your team or that's been shared with you. Move content to folders so it's easier to find and modify share permissions to manage content collaborators. External Connections (if available) Work on content with teams outside of your organization in the same regional data center. Deleted View recently deleted content and restore it or delete it forever. Main Dashboard Feature/Location Description Content Tiles As you use Rise 360, a new tile appears for each piece of content you create. Each tile displays the cover photo, title, lesson count, and last modified date. Articulate 360 Teams subscribers who collaborate on content will also see the owner's avatar on the course tile. Click a tile to open the content for editing and previewing. Learn more about creating new content Learn more about previewing content Hover over a tile, then click the ellipsis that appears to see options for managing the content. Tip: Collaborators' options depend on their role. Only course owners can delete content. Collaborators can remove themselves. Not every option appears for every piece of content. Reach 360 badge Conveniently tell at a glance if content is published to Reach 360 and if it's live or offline. Go to the current file location If viewing a shortcut, click to jump to the actual location of the content. Publish Publish content for Reach 360 (if available), LMS distribution, web hosting, or PDF download. Only the course owner and course managers can publish content.) Send a Copy Send the source file to other Rise 360 authors. Only the course owner and course managers can send a copy of the content. If an author sends a copy of the content back to you later, a new copy is added to your Rise 360 dashboard. Duplicate Duplicate existing content when you want to translate it or create new content with the same layout. Only the course owner and course managers can duplicate content. Move Organize content in folders so it's easier to find. You can also move content to a team folder to share it with other team members. You can move several items at once with multi-select. Share Add content editors and managers as collaborators. Delete Once deleted, content can be restored or permanently deleted from the Deleted folder. You can delete several items at once with multi-select. Only the course owner can delete and restore content. Collaborators can remove themselves. Add/Remove Shortcut In private or team folders, add content to or remove it from My Shortcuts. In My Shortcuts, move or remove content. Content Count Displays the total number of projects in your dashboard and the current range you're viewing. Only 16 tiles are displayed per page. Pagination Use this bar to quickly jump to another page of content or navigate with the Next and Previous buttons.
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Reach 360: Take and Complete Training
Training is the core of Reach 360. There are three types of training deliverables: microlearning, courses, and learning paths. Microlearning is a single lesson made up of content blocks. Courses include multiple lessons. Learning paths are created from multiple courses. Keep reading to learn more about each type. Microlearning Courses Learning Paths Completing Training When you start any training content, you'll see Add to Favorites in the upper-right corner. Click the heart icon to add the current training to your favorites. Click Back to My Learning to return to your Reach 360 dashboard. When available, training is delivered in the language you selected in your profile. If other languages are available, you can select them from the drop-down menu at the top of the page. Microlearning When it comes to training, sometimes less is more. Microlearning is bite-sized content that's focused on a single learning objective. Microlearning content is meant to be taken all at once in a short amount of time. Click the title card to start the content. Begin scrolling or click the down arrow to progress. Scroll or step through the content to complete the training. Courses To start a course, click the title card. There’s a lot of information to process, so let’s break it down. In the cover photo, you’ll see the author name, title, and a Start Course button. For courses, if you’ve already started, the progress bar displays, showing the current percentage of lessons you’ve completed. A Resume Course button displays, letting you jump to where you left off. Courses also provide a training description as well as the date the training was published or last updated. Over on the right, you’ll see how many lessons are in the course and approximately how long it’ll take to complete them all. Beneath that, you’ll find the author, what you need to do to complete the course (either complete a certain number of lessons, a quiz, or both), and any associated categories (they help you find training in the Library). If the course has a due date, you’ll find it listed here as well. At the bottom of the overview is the course outline, broken out by lesson. Anything you’ve completed or have in progress is marked. Click a title to start that lesson. Navigate Through a Lesson Once you’re in a lesson, scroll through the content in the main screen on the right to progress. If available, you can hide and display the sidebar by clicking the ☰ icon in the left-hand corner of the main screen. Use the sidebar to navigate through the content and track your progress. Clicking the cover image at the top of the sidebar returns you to the overview for the training or learning path. Clicking Back to My Learning returns you to the Learn tab. Don’t worry about losing your place. Reach 360 keeps track of the last lesson you completed so that when you return to your training, you’ll continue at the top of the lesson where you left off. Reach 360 automatically bookmarks your progress in video or audio content progress if you navigate away from a lesson or close it while content is playing. Just press Play when you come back to the lesson to resume. Custom Training Your dashboard may contain custom training that have course cards similar to others on your dashboard but display a Launch Course button on the title card. Clicking it opens the course in a new window. These types of courses often have unique navigation and completion requirements that can vary from training to training. Learning Paths Learning paths contain two or more pieces of training. What you see when you select the title card for a learning path is slightly different. The learning path overview cover image displays the title and your current progress. Here you can either start with the first training or, if you’ve already started, continue where you last left off. You can also save it to your favorites by clicking the heart icon next to Add to Favorites. Next, you’ll see the average time the learning path takes to complete, the due date, description, and topics, as well as the authors of the included training. At the bottom of the overview, you’ll see title cards for the pieces of training that make up the learning path. Training you haven’t started displays a View button over the cover image. In-progress and completed pieces of training have a progress bar. Clicking a title card takes you to the overview for that training. You can review the training information, start or continue, and, for courses, jump to a specific lesson in the course outline. Completing Training Completing training means something a little different depending on the type of training you're taking. For microlearning, training is complete when you've viewed all of the content. For courses, it's when you've either progressed through a certain percentage of the content, completed a quiz, or progressed through a percentage and completed a quiz and then clicked Finish after the last lesson. For custom courses, you'll close the course window and to return to the title card page. For learning paths, completion is based on the requirements for each constituent component. If you didn't meet the requirements for any contained microlearning or course content, they must be met to complete the learning path. You can retake any training you’ve completed by clicking the Start Again button on the training overview. This won’t move completed training to the In-Progress section. If you can't find it, your admin may have removed access to that training. Completion Certificate In most cases, once you complete your training content, a completion screen displays where you can download your completion certificate. You can also download your certificate from the title card and return to the Learn tab, or, if available, navigate to completed portions of the training using the sidebar. Once you complete a training deliverable, it displays in the My Learning section under Completed with a link to download the completion certificate.
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Storyline 360: Adding Alternative Text for Screen Readers
Storyline 360 supports alternative text (alt text) for slide objects so your courses are accessible to learners with screen readers and other assistive technologies. In this user guide, you'll learn best practices for writing alt text and three ways to add alt text in Storyline 360. Best Practices for Writing Alt Text Using the Media Library Using the Focus Order Window Using the Size and Position Window Best Practices for Writing Alt Text Non-text content needs alternative text (alt text) to describe its meaning to learners using assistive technologies. Add alt text to objects that convey meaning or context to the learner. Purely decorative images and shapes can be hidden from accessibility tools to prevent unnecessary announcements that can fatigue screen reader users. Our on-demand webinar, How to Write Alt Text for E-Learning, offers more specific strategies. The following tips for writing good alt text can help you get started: Be descriptive and specific. Clearly describe the content, function, and context of the image. You should have enough detail that someone who cannot see the image will still understand its purpose. Don’t include repeating phrases like "image of" and "graphic of.” Screen readers announce this by default. Keep it short. Aim for brief descriptions that convey the essential information. We recommend that alt text be less than 150 characters. Write clearly. Abbreviations and excessive punctuation marks may confuse screen readers, so use complete words and limit punctuation to guarantee clarity. For example, *** will be read literally as “asterisk, asterisk, asterisk.” Using the Media Library The media library makes it super easy to add alt text to all the images, characters, and videos in your project. Open the media library by going to the View tab on the Storyline ribbon and clicking Media Library. Select an image, character pose, or video in the asset grid on the left side of the window. Enter alt text in the details pane on the right, or click the Generate alt text button to let AI Assistant suggest alt text. Learn more about managing alt text in the media library. Using the Focus Order Window The Focus Order window lets you customize the order in which slide objects are navigated with a keyboard and read by a screen reader. You can also use the Focus Order window to manage alt text for all your slide objects. Here’s how: Open the slide you want to customize in Slide View. Go to the Home tab on the Storyline ribbon and click Focus Order. When the Focus Order window opens, enter text in the Alternative Text column. Click Save when you’re finished. Here are some tips for working with alt text on the Focus Order window: All objects for the slide will appear in the Focus Order window, including objects from layers and slide masters. Although slide master objects appear in the focus order window, you'll need to switch to Slide Master View (press F4) to set their alt text. Right-click each object on the slide master, click each object on the slide master and choose Accessibility. If a non-text object doesn’t have alt text, screen readers will read the name of that object as it appears in the timeline. The alt text for a text object defaults to the content within it. If you don’t want an object to be read by screen readers, select it in the list, then click the Remove button in the lower left corner of the window. (This doesn’t delete the object; it just hides it from screen readers.) If you’re using the modern player, you can add alt text to your course logo in your player settings. Learn more about using the Focus Order window. Using the Size and Position Window The Size and Position window lets you control an object’s height, width, rotation, scale, crop, and location. You can also use the Size and Position window to add alt text to the selected object. Right-click the object you want to edit, then choose Accessibility. Keep the Object is visible to accessibility tools box marked. Enter text in the Alternative text field, or click the Generate alt text button to let AI Assistant suggest alt text. Click Close when you're done. Here are some tips for working with alt text on the Size and Position window: When writing alt text, you’ll see a dynamic character count and a tip not to exceed 150 characters. (While there isn't a character limit for alt text, it's best practice to keep it concise.) If the visibility box is checked for a non-text object without alt text, screen readers will read the name of that object as it appears in the timeline. If the visibility box is checked for a text object, screen readers will read the content within that text object. If you’d prefer to hide the selected object from screen readers altogether, uncheck the visibility box. If you’re using the modern player, you can add alt text to your course logo in your player settings. Learn more about using the Size and Position window.
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