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University of Wisconsin

Thursday, December 8th, 2005 by gabe

9 Comments


At DevLearn last month, one of the questions I was asked a number of times was, “How does Articulate Presenter address section 508 accessibility requirements?”

I’m pleased to present this customer spotlight from the University of Wisconsin – Madison, which does an excellent job demonstrating a couple of the ways your content can meet 508 compliance — by adding a text transcript and a map of keyboard shortcuts. Take a look at the Accessibility link in the upper-right corner (this is a custom version of the Attachments feature). Not only that, but it’s a visually stunning and culturally interesting presentation.

Christopher Blaire Bundy, Team Lead, Teaching and Consulting Group with DoIT, Academic Technology, writes,

“This lecture is used as an introduction to the oral traditions of African Storytellers. Harold Scheub, University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Professor of African Languages and Literature, spent about ten years beginning in the late 1960s walking up and down the coastline of South Africa collecting research, interviews, images and movies of African storytellers. Professor Scheub provides historical context and commentary along with beautiful images of South Africa to create a very captivating presentation.”

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“Articulate Presenter was used to synchronize images, narration and text transcripts into a compelling presentation,” Chris continues. “Articulate was selected for this presentation for its ease of use, cross-platform/browser delivery capabilities and elegant user interface.“

View Introduction to African Story Telling

Thank you, Chris, Professor Scheub, and UWM for sharing this work of art!

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9 Responses to “University of Wisconsin”

We are currently using Articulate to develop a range of e-learning programmes for a charity. Accessibility is a big issue for them of course and they are very ‘anti-Flash’. Is it possible to use Keyboard Shortcuts when using Quizmaster and Engage interactions?

John Curran  |  Posted at 01:50 pm on May 27th, 2007 |  #

Hi John-

You can use the tab and space key to navigate a Quizmaker quiz, but Engage does not currently support keyboard navigation. I’d suggest submitting a feature request here.

gabe  |  Posted at 03:13 pm on May 29th, 2007 |  #

Thanks for that. Will let you know how we get on with using Articulate as an accessible e-learning development tool.

John Curran  |  Posted at 06:27 am on May 31st, 2007 |  #

I had some problems with using the keyboard an navigating through the course. The program let me move from one button/link to another using the arrow buttons. Unfortunately, it was also navigating to the next/previous slide at the same time.

Mike Becvar  |  Posted at 02:20 pm on August 3rd, 2007 |  #

Hi, I can’t seen to launch the example. Is it offline? All I get is a window With a grey field and nothing else. The address for the link is http://atsosxdev.doit.wisc.edu/oralTraditions/player.html.

Thanks.

Marty  |  Posted at 12:02 pm on November 5th, 2007 |  #

Hi Marty-

Could you please try viewing the demo with Firefox or another browser? It sounds like you’re using IE7, which won’t work with Presenter 4 content like this (without implementing the fix we recommend in that Knowledge Base article).

(I’ve contacted the customer a couple times to try to get them to update the example – hosted on their servers – but have yet to hear back.)

gabe  |  Posted at 04:23 pm on November 6th, 2007 |  #

Did you even try to access the Accessibility link in your demo? I can’t get to it by way of keyboard and when I use JAWS I have do a INS+F5 to get the button to activate it. Then I can’t even read the information in the box.

Also, some of keyboard shortcut keys are JAWS keys and don’t function when JAWS is on.

Grady McGhee  |  Posted at 04:41 pm on November 28th, 2007 |  #

Grady- Once the player is the focus of your keyboard input, you should be able to navigate to the menu via tab and arrow keys; I just tested this and it worked fine.

The text transcript is intended as one of many ways you can make your content compliant.

There’s a related discussion on 508 compliance and JAWS in our forums.

gabe  |  Posted at 05:44 pm on December 6th, 2007 |  #

The accessibility in this video is “ok”, but there are some major flaws:

E.g., clicking “S” opens the search. You cannot navigate away from that tab back to “O” (outline) or “T” (thumbnails” because everything you type goes into the search box.

I was also not able to get some of the other options to work (e..g, space bar for pause).

Where is there a manual for encoding these shortcuts and any resolutions to existing ADA compliance issues? I am a new user of Articulate and have paid very good money for it and the quizmaker and engage programs. I am distraught thinking I am not going to be able to use it now because it is not compliant and I develop for learning/higher education online. It’s not that I want to care, but FEDERAL USAMERICAN LAW says I have to…

If this post is no longer active, please email me with suggestions at johnson.lisamarie@gmail.com

Thank you!
Lisa Marie

ps. Captivate 3 has transparent accessibility features. You should too!!!!

Lisa Marie  |  Posted at 07:58 pm on August 28th, 2008 |  #

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