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New in Storyline 360: Even More Accessibility Features and Enhancements
Empowering you to build great learning experiences for all your learners is essential. We’re excited to bring you another batch of accessibility features and improvements that’ll help you do just that.
Modern Player Accessible Contrast
Now when you use the modern player in Storyline 360, you can work confidently, knowing that the built-in features in the player actually exceed the WCAG AA guidelines for visual contrast and color. That way all your learners can read text, decipher icons, perceive controls, and navigate easily.
Here’s what it looks like:
Dark Theme |
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Light Theme |
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What a difference, right? That’s the great thing about accessibility. It improves the learning experience for everyone.
Learn more about the Modern Player Accessible Contrast feature.
Two-Color Focus Indicator
You can now choose not just one but two focus colors to ensure that learners using a keyboard to navigate can always see what they’re selecting no matter what color the background is.
Learn more about the Two-Color Focus Indicator feature.
Captions Font Size
Another feature we’ve added is the ability to increase the font size of your closed captions without changing the player font size when you use the modern player. That way, you can make closed captions easier to read for all learners.
Learn how to change the font size for closed captions.
Logo Alt Text
Finally, you can now add alt text to your company logo or hide it from accessibility controls if you don’t feel it’s necessary—giving you more control over the learner experience.
Learn how to add alt text to your logo.
With these new features, you’ve got more power and control to design great learning experiences for all your learners. Stay tuned to our What’s New page to find out about the latest accessibility features and head over to our Feature Roadmap to see what’s to come.
Hello Everyone!
I'm happy to share that we have released Storyline 360 version 86 (Build 3.86.32028.0).
Included in this release is a new feature where you can customize the foreground and background colors of closed captions to complement your course design and maintain contrast accessibility.
All you need to do is update Storyline 360 in your Articulate 360 desktop app on your computer. You'll find our step-by-step instructions here.
Please let us know if you have any questions by reaching out to our Support Engineers directly.
Have a great day!
Agreed, this is great news. One thing that strikes me, though, is that some features (Two-Color Focus Indicator) are being added only to the modern player. Is there a plan to also bring those features to the classic player or should I expect that some features will only ever be available in the modern player?
Hi Erich!
We don't have plans to add the two-focus indicator to the Classic Player. We are prioritizing features for the Modern Player, but if this makes it on our roadmap, I'll be sure to update you in this discussion!
Hi Erich! I know this is an old post, but speaking from experience, I believe you should stay away from the classical player entirely if you aim to create accessible elearning. It's not worth the hazzle.
Are there plans for changing the ability to customize matching questions? Since drag and drop are not accessible, we should be using matching more and the matching with drop-down has limited customization (changing of size of font for drop-downs) and length of text box.
Hi, Naomi.
This sounds like an excellent idea for a feature request! You can submit one here, and if it makes it into our feature roadmap, we'll make sure to update you!
Is there any plan for accessibility improvements for using Storyline itself as a developer? The system fonts and buttons are just so terribly tiny, blurry and low contrast. I've tried various settings on my PC, that help to improve other programmes on a wide screen, but has no impact whatsoever on Storyline. I really don't think I'm going to be able to use it (I'm on a trial)....
Hi, Sarah.
Thank you for reaching out!
We have a feature request logged for Accessible Authoring in Storyline 360.
I will update this discussion if I have any news to share or if this request makes it to our feature roadmap.
In the meantime, I hope others in the community might have some tips on settings that might be helpful for you!
Hi, I love the additional feautures in the most recent update of Storyline. However I discovered a bug that is quite irritating:
When one adds a wipe from left to right per paragraph effect to text, the animation no longer keeps to the actual length entered, but rather to the length of the timeline. This makes further animation difficult.
Can you kindly check that?
Thank you!
Hi, Iris.
Thank you for reaching out!
I'm not able to reproduce this issue when using Storyline 360 Build 3.63.27628.0.
Here's an example:
I added squares that show up every half a second on the timeline (which should match when the next paragraph appears):
Let me know if you're experiencing something different.
In the Modern player, can the attributes of the CC be modified, i.e. CC background color (defaults to the Dark color), the opacity of the CC container, and the font color?
If you change the attributes in the Classic Player, will the CC attributes carry over to the Modern Player?
Hi, Emerson.
Thank you for reaching out!
While not a current feature of Storyline, we have a request logged for the ability to customize the Closed Caption colors, and it's linked to this discussion.
We'll come back to update you when we have news to share.
Hello little question about the modern reader. there are 3 modes; dark, light and personalized. I do not see how in the personalized mode, we can change all the colors of the player? and while i'm here is it possible to reduce the size of this player, it takes a lot of space for not much especially at the top just to display a menu button
