Jaws and focus order
Hi there,
I've previously attended a two day training session on accessible e-Learning which was great, and we've made giant strides in terms of fixing up focus order, removing redundant items, calling out navigation items with custom text etc.
If you preview the course within Storyline, or load it in the LMS and use tab, spacebar and enter to navigate, there are nice yellow boxes around the named focus order items, and the course navigates well.
But I've spent some time yesterday with a JAWS user, and the experience is frankly awful. It seems as though JAWS is picking up items that aren't included on the focus order, but are visible on-screen. Or, it's picking up item names from the timeline, even though we've given them all custom titles in 'Focus Order'.
We also found some major problems with free form quizzing, where in one course it was claiming the item was already selected, and on another, stating it wasn't selected.
As a result, I'm dead-ending learners who can't continue because they don't understand the quizzing interaction.
I know this is a journey and improvements are being made all the time, but is this just a quirk of how screen-readers work or is there any more that can be done?