Closed Captions Won't Stay Off
I have a Storyline course that has closed captions setup (just like all my other courses). It is automatically turned on as soon as the course starts, the CC button can be selected to turn them off - but on the next slide they are back on again. I have tried doing a Save As on the course while renaming it, turn off closed captions from the player properties, saved it again, closed it and reopened it, turned on the closed captions and the issues continues. I have never seen this happen before. Does anyone have any ideas to resolve this issues??Updating Courses for Accessibility
We are trying to estimate how long it will take to update our courses to meet accessibility guidelines. Has anyone gone through this process? How much time does it take per course? A range is helpful. Here's the list of tasks I think we need to complete for each course: Check color contrast between text and colored backgrounds and update those colors if needed Update all headings using Storyline’s styles Ensure all hyperlinks are underlined Update focus order for all objects on the screen, remove decorative objects from focus order Write alt text for all non-decorative images Add closed captions to every screen with audio narration Modify slide design to ensure essential information isn’t obscured by closed captions Test all courses to ensure they are fully functional using a keyboardNew Matching lay-out
Last week we received the updated lay-out of the matching knowledge check. The moment I discovered it was a bit unlucky (during a presentation, got me a bit confused) but today I had some time to look into it. The changelog as following on the articulate website: Enhanced: Matching knowledge check blocks have been upgraded with intuitive navigation, full keyboard support, and comprehensive screen reader integration. Now, I think it's great that Articulate is improving it's software's accessibility, however, I don't see anything intuitive about the new design. A lot of new things have been added which for me only make the assignment more confusing. On the left side the hamburger icon and number suggest some sort of clickability, which is not there. The drop downs on the right give the assignment a new layer of intractability which only wouldn't want for the student. Overall the lay-out is a lot less clean and drains focus away from the content towards the design. Maybe a simple solution would be to add a slider which let's us choose between this lay-out and the previous one (or this one without the rings and bells). That's just my opinion, I was wondering what other think of the new lay-out!Screen Reader is Reading Items Not in the Focus Order
Hello. I've recently started to have a problem where Windows 11 Narrator is reading items that are not in the focus order (either default or custom focus order--doesn't matter). For example, when I create a multiple-choice question with a question and four answer choices, the screen reader will correctly read the question and the four potential answer choices. However, when I select an answer (correct or incorrect), the screen reader automatically reads the text and the continue button in the answer feedback popup, then it reads the course title and some random player controls before returning to the answer feedback popup. After it returns to the answer feedback popup, I can control the screen reader/works as it should (SEE ATTACHED VIDEO). This just started happening during the past week. I've had no issues like this when creating questions in Storyline in the past. Any help would be greatly appreciated.Rise upload video file accessibility ideas?
We hit a showstopper accessibility snag with Rise's upload multimedia block. We are required to use WAVE as our checker and it throws a missing video alt tag error for videos we upload. We've looked at these possible solutions but they raise other issues or they're unknown territory. Wondering if anyone has found a solution?? Solutions we've discussed so far... Continue to use file upload and use the video caption field and text before the video block to describe the content (likely no: organization needs a clean WAVE test) Self host videos on our server (no, not optimized for streaming, captioning) Embed the video and host it on YouTube: (can of worms when it comes to privacy, Google terms of use, video participant consent). We are looking at other video hosting platforms with more nuanced sharing and embedding controls... Provide an accessible PDF of the whole module: (told no, don't want multiple versions of modules) Maybe put the video in a Storyline block? We'll test this but I'm not very familiar with Storyline and accessibility and am wondering if anyone has any experience using it for this situation? Other ideas???? Thank you!Certification WCAG 2.1 AA for Courses needed (Rise360)
Hey awesome community! 👋 One of our clients is asking us to get a certification to prove that our courses (built in Rise360) meet WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility standards. Has anyone gone through this process or knows how we might get our courses officially certified? Really appreciate any guidance you can share! 🙏 Thanks so much, AndriTranslation / localization
Hi, We currently have our course in English only, but more and more we get requests to translate the content. The content is mostly text and speech (generated with the text to speech feature). I know about the feature on how to export, translate and import again, but now with AI and LLM and translation tools like DeepL is there a smarter and easier way to do it than duplicating slides and courses in different languages? Anyone with ideas, experience or suggestions? I am happy to hear what you think.Flashcards and Accessibility
I recently watched this training episode: Home | Articulate - Community, and I really love the way the process block was used to create a scenario. However, I'm wondering if the flashcards below the scenario are accessible. I've heard in the past the drag-and-drops and flashcards are not accessible, so I wanted to double-check before using a treatment like this in one of the courses I'm developing. Thanks so much! :)Camtasia & Closed Captioned Projects in Rise
Upon creating a project within Camtasia and exporting, the captions file within the designed Camtasia project do not appear when adding the Mp4 into Rise. I've attempted to DL the project via standard Mp4 & Mp4 Smart Player to test both versions, and neither populate the captions within the project. Does Rise not support auto-captioned files created from within Camtasia?Closed Caption issues with AI Text to Speech
Hi all I am loving the new AI Text to Speech voices but have found an issue with the Closed Captions. The Closed Caption placeholders are not lining up or splitting where expected. Image 1 is how the closed captions are displaying for the voice to text. Image 2 or 3 are both examples of how I would expect the captions to display, with the placeholders aligned to speech. Either of these would be acceptable. Is anyone else experiencing this? Not sure if this is a bug or an enhancement request or if I'm missing something? Thanks all! Niki Stoyles
