[NFBCS] Inaccessible Litmos/Storyline 360 trainings

Mike Gorse mike at straddlethebox.org
Mon Aug 21 17:41:35 UTC 2023


I know I'm not the only one struggling with inaccessible trainings. 
Anyway, I have to complete this anti-harassment / anti-discrimination 
training for work, and I can't even find a control to move the training to 
the next slide. I'm wondering if anyone has had to deal with a training 
like that and if there's anything I could do that I might not be trying, 
so I don't have to keep asking a sighted person to click the button for me 
with the mouse. I normally use NVDA when I'm not in Linux and using Orca, 
but I wondered if I'd have better luck using JAWS, so I tried downloading 
it and couldn't find a next button there either, although I'm not a JAWS 
expert. There appear to be controls with labels like "Rectangle 1" and 
"Oval 1," but they don't appear to be clickable. Also, the training is 
from Litmos, but I took a quick look at the page source and found a 
comment indicating that the training was created using Storyline 360 from 
articulate.com, and Articulate claims that courses created using Storyline 
360 are accessible with screen readers or can be. So I don't really know 
who to blame for the training not being accessible. There's a feedback 
form at the end, and I'm hoping that it gives me a place to complain about 
the course not being accessible, for whatever good that might do.

Thanks,
-Mike



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