The Complete Guide to Storyline Accessibility
Everything instructional designers need to know to make Storyline 360 courses accessible, with a good and bad example for every check.
Storyline Accessibility Quick Checklist
A fast, practical pass through your Storyline course before you publish it, 20 checks, about 15 minutes.
WCAG for Storyline
WCAG's requirements map onto specific Storyline settings: turn on the built-in accessibility toggle first, then add alt text, captions, and fix tab order yourself, none of that happens automatically.
Storyline Triggers and Accessibility
Storyline's trigger system, "When [event] happens on [object], do [action]," is what makes custom interactions possible, and it's also where most custom-built accessibility problems come from, since a trigger only works for the event you actually wired it to.
What Screen Readers Announce in Storyline
A screen reader doesn't describe a Storyline slide the way it looks, it announces each focusable object in tab order, using only whatever accessible name and role that object actually has. Here's what that sounds like for Storyline's most common objects, done well and done poorly.