Dear Alistair
Thanks for this insightful review. Do you believe there is an
alternative to Articulate which can address your issues? From what you
say, it seems that a number of your original hopes were not met.
Best wishes
Margaret
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On 24/06/2014 21:07, Alistair McNaught wrote:
> We were involved in doing an accessibility review for a project that had some resources created in Articulate and some in Xerte Toolkits. Articulate gave significant problems in terms of accessibility because the text wasn't selectable for text to speech tools and there was no easy way to change the background colours.
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> It's possible that the issues could have been worked around had the developer had more time in the beginning exploring the options (there was a very tight deadline) but given that Xerte Toolkits (a free product) has a high native accessibility "out the box" we were disappointed at the lack of obvious accessibility in Articulate. It's clearly a powerful programme that could be used to design in a range of dyslexia friendly options if you specified them in advance but in our case we ended up having to retrofit audio clips to compensate for non-operability with text to speech and we had to advice users to use third party free tools like ssOverlay or Chrome HighContrast plug in.
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> Alistair
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> Subject: Learning needs of dyslexic students
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> Heillo
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> I would be interested to learn whether any members of this forum experienced in using Articulate Storyline
> (https://en-uk.articulate.com/products/storyline-overview.php?utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Sep2013Test&keyword=+articulate%20+storyline)
> have any sense of its design capabilities in meeting the learning needs of students with dyslexia. This software was pointed out to me by a learning technologist but I would like to do a little research first! Obviously, I can investigate the relevant web-pages and make my own judgements, so please don't feel obliged to do this form me. It would be good to know more from someone who has tried out the software, however.
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> Best wishes
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> Margaret
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