Ashley Schwartau
Ashley Schwartau
COO & Creative Director at The Securty Awareness Company
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    Ashley Schwartau

    I've been developing e-learning materials for 10+ years. With a BA in Digital Media, and a background in video editing, I have spent this last decade cultivating design and development skills, working my way up from research assistant to creative director. Now I get to call the shots in terms of ...
  • Nashville, TN
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Ashley Schwartau replied to the discussion 508 & Accessibility Questions: Tabbing, Alt Text on unnecessary images, alt text on buttons and quiz answers.
"THANKS!!!!!"
  • over 6 years ago01/16/18 at 9:38 pm (UTC)
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Ashley Schwartau replied to the discussion Built-in Disabled State: Why would an item still be able to have its HOVER effects if it's been disabled?
"Yes, it was set to Resume Saved State, hence my confusion! I ended up just deleting and rebuilding the elements and then they worked, but..."
  • over 6 years ago01/12/18 at 10:42 pm (UTC)
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Ashley Schwartau replied to the discussion 508 & Accessibility Questions: Tabbing, Alt Text on unnecessary images, alt text on buttons and quiz answers.
"WOW thank you so much. This is super helpful, especially about what to include in the Alt Text.  Narration -- we always have the Notes m..."
  • over 6 years ago01/12/18 at 10:38 pm (UTC)
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Ashley Schwartau started a new discussion 508 & Accessibility Questions: Tabbing, Alt Text on unnecessary images, alt text on buttons and quiz answers.
"Forgive me if these are answered elsewhere. I've been searching and haven't found quite what I'm looking for.  1. When viewing a course,..."
  • over 6 years ago01/12/18 at 3:50 pm (UTC)
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Ashley Schwartau replied to the discussion Weird Question: "Self-destruct" option after a certain time period?
"Thank you guys for your input! I really appreciate it. :) Love this community!"
  • over 6 years ago01/12/18 at 3:20 pm (UTC)
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Ashley Schwartau started a new discussion Built-in Disabled State: Why would an item still be able to have its HOVER effects if it's been disabled?
"Hi -- We have buttons that get triggered to go to the built-in disabled state after visiting the section that they take you to. When you ..."
  • over 6 years ago01/10/18 at 10:01 pm (UTC)
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Ashley Schwartau replied to the discussion Weird Question: "Self-destruct" option after a certain time period?
"I told them it was probably way too complicated of an ask for us to even think about, but it is an interesting thought experiment! Micha..."
  • over 6 years ago01/10/18 at 4:06 pm (UTC)
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Ashley Schwartau started a new discussion Weird Question: "Self-destruct" option after a certain time period?
"Just had a strange question from my sales team and it's one that I don't know how to answer. I think it's a "NO" but I thought I'd pose i..."
  • over 6 years ago01/09/18 at 9:11 pm (UTC)
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Ashley Schwartau replied to the discussion (508 Compliance) How do you format scripts for clients who want a text-only option for employees?
"Thank you for all of this!! "
  • over 6 years ago12/15/17 at 7:23 pm (UTC)
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Ashley Schwartau replied to the discussion (508 Compliance) How do you format scripts for clients who want a text-only option for employees?
"Hi Julie! Thanks so much for your thoughtful and detailed response!  I agree about the word docs; it's just been requested enough times ..."
  • over 6 years ago12/12/17 at 11:27 pm (UTC)
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Ashley Schwartau started a new discussion (508 Compliance) How do you format scripts for clients who want a text-only option for employees?
"Hi everyone! I'm researching some 508 related issues based on a lot of client requests we've had this year, and I thought I'd pick y'all'..."
  • over 6 years ago11/29/17 at 6:47 pm (UTC)
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Ashley Schwartau replied to the discussion Progress bar for all module ?
"Do you think it'll ever be a standard feature?"
  • over 6 years ago11/17/17 at 2:03 am (UTC)
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Ashley Schwartau started a new discussion Where do you get your game templates? Resources we're missing?
"Hi all. We all know that game or gamified interaction development takes a LONG time, and many companies don't have time or manpower to bu..."
  • over 6 years ago10/30/17 at 8:51 pm (UTC)
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Ashley Schwartau replied to the discussion Replay button doesn't work on saved state
"Why would that be the expected behavior? Has this not changed at all in the last 2 years? What if someone wanted to re-view a slide that ..."
  • over 6 years ago10/17/17 at 6:59 pm (UTC)
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Ashley Schwartau replied to the discussion Separate the scrubber from play/pause and replay
"I know this is 4 years old but is there STILL NO WAY to separate the Replay button from the timeline? As a user, I would want to be able ..."
  • over 6 years ago10/17/17 at 6:51 pm (UTC)
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Ashley Schwartau replied to the discussion Logo Blurriness/Logos stretching?
"Is this going to be something that the engineering team fixes in future releases? We shouldn't have to go through all of that extra work ..."
  • over 6 years ago10/05/17 at 7:30 pm (UTC)
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Ashley Schwartau replied to the discussion Is there a way to pin a photographic character for quick access? Re-sort the poses? Search?
"I know this is an old issue but it's a really good idea to be able to sort by style of pose or emotion rather than having to scroll throu..."
  • over 6 years ago09/13/17 at 7:48 pm (UTC)
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Ashley Schwartau replied to the discussion Reducing PNG size in published output?
"Ah just noticing these updated comments! Yes, the image quality scale should apply to ALL IMAGES in a course. Why would it not???? Defini..."
  • over 6 years ago09/11/17 at 8:22 pm (UTC)
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Ashley Schwartau replied to the discussion Are fonts embedded?
"Hey Ashley :) Yeah, it's got to be a PITA to try to make everything compatible with every browser. Thanks for the info.  As for getting ..."
  • over 6 years ago09/11/17 at 3:02 pm (UTC)
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Ashley Schwartau replied to the discussion Are fonts embedded?
"Man it seems like there have been non-stop IE11 compatibility issues the last few months. Anyone know why?"
  • over 6 years ago09/10/17 at 4:49 pm (UTC)
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Ashley Schwartau replied to the discussion Published course in Storyline 360 will not play in IE 11
"We've been applying this code and testing in SCORM Cloud and are able to view the courses in IE11. But clients are still reporting that t..."
  • over 6 years ago08/25/17 at 5:19 pm (UTC)
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Ashley Schwartau replied to the discussion Audio not working on Safari iPad
"Did anyone find a solution for this?? Would love to know what it was."
  • over 6 years ago08/25/17 at 4:21 pm (UTC)
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Ashley Schwartau started a new discussion How to build a "Password tester" exercise
"Hi all! I'm trying to work through the logic of potentially building an interactive exercise but it's the end of the week and my brain is..."
  • almost 7 years ago08/11/17 at 8:05 pm (UTC)
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Ashley Schwartau replied to the discussion Storyline Player - Can we close the sidebar or make it optional?
"It would be really cool for the user to have that ability to toggle the sidebar on and off. Courses look so much cleaner and fresh withou..."
  • almost 7 years ago08/09/17 at 3:12 pm (UTC)
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Ashley Schwartau replied to the discussion Change file from 360 to Storyline 2?
"Are they still working on a way to copy and paste between STL2 and STL360? "
  • almost 7 years ago08/08/17 at 7:15 pm (UTC)