Behind the Scenes: Alternative text tip and counter
Hi there! When we released Storyline 360 Update 90 back in July, we introduced the following enhancement: When writing alt text in Storyline 360, you’ll now see a dynamic character count and a tip not to exceed 150 characters. You may be wondering why, well, check out this behind-the-scenes video! If you'd like to learn more about adding alternative text, check out Storyline360: Adding Alternative Text for Screen Readers Thanks, Ronnie Pilman, CPACC Sr. QA Engineer
Storyline Zoom to fit & Accessible text
Hi everyone!👋 Our team has enabled Zoom text fitting and accessible text features in our Storyline learning courses. Should we include these features and their usage in our navigation or control guide? I’d also love to hear your best practices to ensure we are providing the most accessible courses to our learners. Thanks in advance! 🤩Recent Accessibility Upgrades in Storyline
Happy release day, everyone! Storyline update 94 includes the following accessibility improvements for a better experience: Fixed: Keyboard navigation worked inconsistently when interacting with 360° images. Fixed: Screen readers didn't always announce layer content. Click the Update button for your Storyline app to check out all the latest goodness.Storyline custom focus control
There have many been times, when using Storyline to develop content, it has not been possible to get the kind of screen reader focus control that I have needed. Using layers for this can only get you so far. I developed a JavaScript function that allows you to send the screen reader focus to the text field that you want, via any trigger. Adding the following JavaScript to your projects Slide Master will make it available throughout your module: // Check if function has been defined already if (typeof window.setFocus === "undefined") { // Get reference to the Storyline Player var $player = GetPlayer(); // Set the amount of time to delay before attempting to send focus to the target element (milliseconds) 1000 = 1 second. var $interval = 100; // window.setFocus = function ($target) { // Get the target element, based on the passed argument var $target = document.querySelector('[data-acc-text^="' + $target + '"]'); var $id = "acc-" + $target.dataset.modelId $target = document.getElementById($id); // Send focus to target, after defined $interval setTimeout(function () { $target.focus(); }, $interval); } } Once the function is defined in your Slide Master, you can then call the function on the page using a JavaScript function, which can be triggered by any Storyline trigger such as timeline start, timeline end, button click etc. window.setFocus("Customer in the queue"); The argument, which is passed in the "" quotes, is the text contents of the text field you are targeting. You do not have to include all the text, just enough to ensure it is unique. For example, if you have two text fields: "Customer in the queue talking on their phone." "Customer in the shop staring into space." Passing the words "Customer in the" would not be specific enough, as there would be two text fields found. However, passing "Customer in the queue" would send the focus to the text field that contains the text "Customer in the queue talking on their phone."
