Bob O'Donnell
Bob O'Donnell
Creative Director at PowerTrain, Inc.
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"Lauren will most likely help you. Without seeing your course structure, it sounds like the program may be getting confused. Try using a s..."
  • 4 years ago02/19/20 at 7:57 pm (UTC)
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"Nothing to worry about. The screen reader will read through them without a problem. The tab order is set by how they are entered on the q..."
  • 4 years ago01/24/20 at 9:13 pm (UTC)
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"A follow up on William's note: You can't rely on review for testing. You must publish your course. Storyline's preview and review publish..."
  • over 4 years ago01/22/20 at 8:32 pm (UTC)
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"We have similar issues... plus a different one. In IE, you cannot access the slider bar controls with a mouse. Works fine in Chrome. Also..."
  • over 4 years ago01/22/20 at 8:29 pm (UTC)
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Bob O'Donnell replied to the discussion JAWS not reading bullet list
"Thanks.... I finally had a chance to check back on these notes. Hopefully the programming team can address it soon. It could also be fun ..."
  • over 4 years ago09/19/19 at 9:15 pm (UTC)
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"Thanks for the darkness explanation Leslie!"
  • over 4 years ago09/04/19 at 10:10 pm (UTC)
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Bob O'Donnell replied to the discussion JAWS not reading bullet list
"Hi Lauren, I wrote back earlier but it looks like it didn't go through. Anyway.... We're using the latest version of Storyline and the la..."
  • over 4 years ago09/04/19 at 9:53 pm (UTC)
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"One of our testers just documented the same issue. She can't get JAWS to continue reading the text. Not sure what your statement refers t..."
  • over 4 years ago09/03/19 at 3:48 pm (UTC)
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"Didn't get to the bottom of why your slide was turning dark on publish - however, I started with a fresh slide and made your background c..."
  • over 4 years ago08/29/19 at 4:27 pm (UTC)
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Bob O'Donnell started a new discussion JAWS not reading bullet list
"We ran across an issue with JAWS not reading bulleted lists in Storyline. I just did a quick test on it. If I hard code a bullet characte..."
  • over 4 years ago08/28/19 at 9:31 pm (UTC)
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"At first glance of the file, the timing looks off to me. Did you alter the original? Usually YouTube is good with generating timing and b..."
  • over 4 years ago08/26/19 at 6:27 pm (UTC)
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Bob O'Donnell replied to the discussion Sequential cue points
"No, but that would be an interesting feature. An extra option in the "right click" menu to "Align cue point to object". "
  • almost 5 years ago07/24/19 at 8:41 pm (UTC)
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Bob O'Donnell replied to the discussion Triggers in window unreadable
"Yea! Thanks Ashley."
  • almost 5 years ago07/24/19 at 8:26 pm (UTC)
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Bob O'Donnell replied to the discussion Story size and scaling player viewing
"Your story file setup is pretty large and should be ok. If you tested it and it looks good to you on the various devices, just go with it..."
  • almost 5 years ago07/24/19 at 8:23 pm (UTC)
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Bob O'Donnell replied to the discussion Story size and scaling player viewing
"The output is a fixed size by default. If you want to change it, go into the Player properties and set the Player Size to: "Scale to fill..."
  • almost 5 years ago07/24/19 at 2:03 pm (UTC)
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Bob O'Donnell started a new discussion PDF launched from PDF
"My client has a PDF file that has several links in it. 3 of them launch other PDFs. I cannot get those links to work at all. Tried multip..."
  • almost 5 years ago07/16/19 at 11:20 pm (UTC)
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Bob O'Donnell replied to the discussion Shaking Content Window
"Ha! That's similar to what one of our guys said. I have another issue if you have a minute. "
  • almost 5 years ago07/16/19 at 11:14 pm (UTC)
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"We use it to fill the gap for review purposes until we get real narration. A couple of people I know use it the way you are for the same ..."
  • almost 5 years ago07/16/19 at 10:15 pm (UTC)
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Bob O'Donnell replied to the discussion Javascript to MUTE audio?
"Its a "toggle". Click once, the audio is off. Click again, the audio is back on. If you have to comply with Section 508 you'll need to cr..."
  • almost 5 years ago07/16/19 at 10:06 pm (UTC)
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Bob O'Donnell replied to the discussion Shaking Content Window
"So, we looked closer at this. It is the same issue as the shaking questions. The page number variable was touching the outer edge of the ..."
  • almost 5 years ago07/16/19 at 3:54 pm (UTC)
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Bob O'Donnell started a new discussion Shaking Content Window
"Wow, Storyline and IE are special together. This is a review comment we received from a recent course. The course has a slide number vari..."
  • almost 5 years ago07/16/19 at 3:05 pm (UTC)
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Bob O'Donnell replied to the discussion Importing Variable Names
"No easy way to do it. We use the copy/paste function as Ria mentioned. All our variables have similar names (CourseID_Slide#) so its easy..."
  • almost 5 years ago07/05/19 at 2:50 pm (UTC)
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"Offering different templates isn't a bad idea. Just be consistent with your branding; color scheme, logo, voice, etc. Advantages: If you..."
  • almost 5 years ago07/03/19 at 2:47 pm (UTC)
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Bob O'Donnell replied to the discussion Replay button doesn't work for the audio
"Check your slide properties as a start and set "When revisiting" to "Reset to initial state" and see if that fixes the audio replay."
  • almost 5 years ago07/01/19 at 6:37 pm (UTC)
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Bob O'Donnell replied to the discussion Text entry and triggers
"If possible, post your story file. Its easier for someone to scope out."
  • almost 5 years ago07/01/19 at 6:34 pm (UTC)