In Public Beta: Brands
Hello, everyone! We’re excited to introduce Brands, now available in Rise 360. Watch the video below for a quick walkthrough, or explore the full documentation to learn how to create, apply, and manage brands. (Update) By default, everyone can create and edit brands, but this permission can be restricted to admins only. All creators on the account can apply brands. After trying it out, please complete our short feedback survey. We’d especially love to hear what additional settings, permission options, and bulk actions your team needs. Feedback Survey
Scenario block labels
Hi there | Kia ora Articulate Team I'm a bit frustrated with the Rise scenario block labelling. For a couple of reasons: 1. The button/text container on the front page is too small to accommodate our dual language labels. Our organisation uses both English and Te Reo on all labels where possible. 2. The front page button label and continue button label (once you get into the scenario) use the same label. I think these should be different labels. 3. The front page label should be Get Started, or Begin or something like that and large enough to cope with dual language. 4. The "continue" label should allow for dual language, the same as the retry button. What do you think? Any chance you could make this happen? Kind regards | Nga mihi Helen PS I've attached a screenshot of my dual language labels for Scenario.In Case You Missed It (ICYMI): Accessibility Updates in Q3 2026
Welcome to our Q3 2026 update! This quarter, we made it easier to add captions and structure content in Rise while improving caption workflows, alt text guidance, and screen reader experiences in Storyline. We also had the chance to talk about accessibility together at Articuland Orlando. Our Accessibility Group has reached 1,042 members! That’s 72 more people since our last update, and it means we’ve crossed the 1,000-member mark. Thanks for being here, sharing what works, and helping one another create more accessible training. Let’s take a look at what’s new this quarter! Highlights This Quarter This quarter’s accessibility updates centered around three themes: Making content easier to navigate and understand In Rise, authors can adjust heading levels within labeled graphic markers. A clear heading structure helps screen reader users understand and navigate content. The custom block audio player also received accessibility improvements. Making captions easier to create and manage Rise can now generate captions for uploaded videos and AI Avatars in custom blocks. In Storyline, authors can export all closed captions for a project at once or from the Video Tools Options tab. We also fixed issues that could cause captions to disappear or fail to update after media was edited. Connecting at Articuland Orlando I loved being at Articuland Orlando, hosting a session, and having accessibility conversations with customers and colleagues. Meeting people in person gave us another opportunity to hear about the work you’re doing and the questions you’re navigating. Thanks to everyone who stopped to talk! Product Updates Rise Enhanced: Adjust heading levels within labeled graphic markers to give content a clearer structure. Enhanced: The custom block audio player received accessibility improvements and a compact layout. Enhanced: Automatically generate captions for uploaded videos and AI Avatars in custom blocks. Enhanced: Rearranging blocks in the editor now uses less motion. Storyline Enhanced: Export all closed captions in a project at once, or export captions from the Video Tools Options tab. Enhanced: Alt text with exactly 150 characters no longer triggers the accessibility checker’s action to shorten it. That recommendation now appears at 151 characters or more. Fixed: Closed captions could be removed after editing a video. Fixed: Authors couldn’t separate closed captions to separate instances of the same video. Fixed: JAWS announced an object’s noobject’s te alt text instead of its selected-state alt text when learners navigated with the arrow keys. Fixed: Closed captions for AI text-to-speech did not update when narration was edited. Fixed: Closed-caption text could be missing after an AI voice was updated or regenerated. Fixed: The focus indicator highlighted an inactive area when tabbing through an Invalid Answer message. Other Updates Customer Story Artisan Learning Builds Accessible Training for Every Learner With Articulate 360 Artisan Learning shares how it considers accessibility while creating training for a wide range of people and projects. Its story is a reminder that choices such as adding captions, writing alt text, and supporting keyboard navigation can help more learners take part. Updated Articles Rise 360: Our Accessibility Journey Storyline 360: Our Accessibility Journey Accessibility IndexRISE: New launch page w Library
We appreciate all the updates that Articulate has been making with custom blocks, and many, many other features these past 2 years. But today, under rigorous deadlines (our team), we are wishing we could revert back to the "legacy" UI for the opening of RISE (launch page). The new top layer (Library) seems confusing when one is in a dreadful hurry, and although I've clicked through many times today, it's not becoming intuitive, but confusing. In addition, I can no longer readily determine if I am in "Review 360" or "RISE authoring" whereas before, it was obvious, and easy to move around, know where I am. (New icons indicated "in review" or "published" have no meaning to us; but we realize every firm has their own preferred workflow.) (And yes, I do recall about 3 to 4 years ago upon a UI change involving folders, there was much controversy and we all adapted.) With changes so dramatic, I am wishing for a 'revert' to legacy UI button (like I've seen in other portals & dashboard). Nevertheless, totally regard Articulate as a top-notch software that keeps evolving, growing, and keeping up with change, innovation, and technology!Custom blocks - focus order
Hi everyone, I have been starting to use custom blocks, although still waiting for Articulate to let us know which ones are truly accessible, so using sparingly. I am struggling with all the "containers" "canvas" "layout" boxes and whether they are read or flow. I will try in NVDA, but as a very novice person with it, I am not sure if I know what I don't know. Here are a few images, that I am trying to determine if things will or not be read, you can't seem to delete things from focus order like you can in storyline. In image one: layout seems to be the full box container 1 seems to be the full image (1,2,3 text and white box) container 2 is the 1st objective text and number icon and continues with container 3 and 4 Not sure what is read, will only my number and text be read? 2nd one - the Canvas is the full rectangle, if we put some text there will the screen reader read it (thinking like an introduction to the infographic. Then heading 1 1 and Heading 2 1 I just moved them to be in order. I really wish we could rename these headings. In this instance as well do we leave the group field blank? I have so many more but thought would get basic thoughts here. Thanks for any advise/assistance.Browse Review 360 should be searchable
My team has recently began to localize multiple course series into multiple languages. Due to requirements, each language iteration is published separately requiring each language version of a Storyline to be published to Review360 separately. For even further confusion, add that each storyline has the exact same start page (branding) and we are unable to match the correct Storyline piece to where it should go in the language-coordinated Rise course because we cannot read the translated title. Using the current setup for Browse Review 360 when inserting these items into the course, we can't tell which Storyline goes in which slot within the course. This would be so much easier if I could provide a screenshot, but, NDA. May I suggest that when inserting a Storyline block into Rise that the Browse Review 360 function be searchable by name (at the minimum) or allow folder searching versus the current jumble of files it currently displays?Difference Between "Articulate" and "Community" AI Voices
Hi, In Generate AI Audio, I noticed that some voices are labeled 'Articulate' and others 'Community'. Could you please explain the difference between these two voice types? Are there any differences in quality, support, licensing, or recommended usage? Thank you.Difference Between "Articulate" and "Community" AI Voices
Hi, In Generate AI Audio, I noticed that some voices are labeled 'Articulate' and others 'Community'. Could you please explain the difference between these two voice types? Are there any differences in quality, support, licensing, or recommended usage? Thank you.
