Gamification and Accessibility: How to Design Inclusive Games
Gamification and Accessibility: How to Design Inclusive Games

This blog explores how to design accessible gamified learning experiences that cater to all abilities. From ensuring visual and hearing accessibility to accommodating cognitive and physical challenges, we highlight practical strategies for creating inclusive educational games. Learn how to make gamified eLearning more engaging and accessible for every learner, regardless of their needs.

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The Role of Visual eLearning Platforms on Interactive Education
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How to Create an Accessible Accordion in Articulate Storyline (WCAG Compliant)

This blog post explores how to create a fully accessible accordion in Articulate Storyline, ensuring compliance with WCAG guidelines. We walk through step-by-step instructions to build the accordion while addressing key accessibility features such as screen reader compatibility and managing motion paths. Ideal for e-learning developers looking to enhance interactivity and ensure inclusive learning design in their courses.

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How to Remove Object Visibility for Accessibility Tools in Storyline 360

Learn how to improve accessibility in Storyline 360 by removing non-essential objects from screen readers. This simple tip ensures decorative images and irrelevant elements are hidden from assistive technology, enhancing the learning experience for users with disabilities. Follow this guide to make your e-learning content more compliant with WCAG and other accessibility standards.

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Storyline 360: Removing Object Visibility to Accessibility Tools

In this tutorial, we explore how to handle decorative images in e-learning courses, ensuring they don’t interfere with the user experience for screen reader users. You'll learn how to manage non-text content in Articulate Storyline, identifying which visual elements need to be hidden from screen readers and how to adjust their accessibility settings. The step-by-step guide covers practical tips for fixing accessibility issues, managing embedded objects, and speeding up your workflow while keeping your content compliant and inclusive for all learners. Perfect for those looking to create accessible, visually engaging e-learning experiences.

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Enhancing eLearning Inclusion: The Importance of Animation Accessibility Awareness in Storyline

Discover how to make your eLearning content engaging and inclusive by balancing the benefits of animations with accessibility needs, including a practical solution like the Animation Toggle Button—click to learn more!

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eLearning hints-and-tips: How to populate a Learner's name from your LMS into Lectora (no code knowledge required!)

Using a Learner's name in your content can add a valuable personal touch to your content and support greater engagement, but how easy is this to achieve in ELB Learning’s Lectora?

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Building an eLearning gamelet - The journey starts!
Building an eLearning gamelet - The journey starts!

After a few weeks of scoping, concept creation, storyboarding and graphic design, technical scoping and development, and QA and accessibility testing, it’s time to release the eLearning Journey gamelet into the wild and, importantly, listen to user feedback!

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Building a customisable eLearning Snake-style game - Early teaser release!
Building a customisable eLearning Snake-style game - Early teaser release!

Mobile technology has transformed pretty much every aspect of our lives, changing how we communicate, work, learn and - importantly - play. This technological transformation can feel like a relatively recent phenomenon, but for readers that can remember having a Nokia 3210, you’ll know that the OG mobile game was Snake! It was easy to play and very addictive. So how can it improve learning engagement today?

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Building eLearning content for visually impaired users

As hybrid working models have become commonplace, with more staff working from home than ever before, improving your organisation’s training approach is essential to ensure that staff understand and apply current company policies. Whether you are working within an industrial business, financial services organisation, a charity or creating eLearning for health, every sector has specific training requirements and will require tailored content. Training may include operational delivery, regulatory knowledge and also how to protect your organisation from cybersecurity threats such as phishing. With the reduction in face-to-face interactions and training, understanding and taking into account accessibility considerations have never been more important.

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UK retail - Has staff training ever been more important?

High staff turnover within the retail industry is notoriously higher than any other. With 320 stores a week closing down in just the UK and economic conditions continuing to deteriorate in the cost-of-living squeeze, staff are leaving for employment prospects with more job security, an ensured minimum wage salary, benefits and better working conditions. However, those who remain within the industry note they tend to suffer in two key areas: A lack of motivation and the feeling of being easily replaceable, regardless of experience.

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eLearning hints-and-tips: How to create a flip card in Storyline 360

Articulate’s Storyline 360 product is a great tool for rapidly building eLearning courses and games but how do you create a flip card, and how can you make it accessible for all learners? Check out our video to find out.

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eLearning hints-and-tips: How to create a mandatory field button... that moves!

Whilst scanning Twitter (too much as usual), a short video hit Euan’s feed where a developer had created a video of a funky submit button.

If the user went to press the button before completing some mandatory fields, it would jump out of the way so they couldn't press it! We thought it was a cool idea so decided to riff on the concept using Articulate 360’s Storyline to make a quirky disabled button (besides just having a disabled state).

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Mark HowellsAvenue HQeLearning, eLearningdevelopment, eLearning development, eLearning accessibility, accessibility, WCAG, Mandatory field, Submit button, Articulate 360, Storyline, Storyline 360Comment
Building an eLearning gamelet - Developing a technical Proof-of-Concept
Building an eLearning gamelet - Developing a technical Proof-of-Concept

A technical development Proof-of-Concept (PoC) is an essential part of any build to minimise any need for subsequent re-working to enable user experience, functionality or accessibility. Also, it serves as a key step in determining whether our creative concept works in practice within the constraints that we have, or whether it is just that — a concept.

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Luke NaylorKonnektiseLearning, Storyline, Storyline 360, Javascript, CSS, Php, Lectora, Agile developmentComment
eLearning hints-and-tips: How to add button states in Storyline 360 that meet accessibility

You can make your buttons look really nice with some of the in-built animations in Articulate’s Storyline 360, but be careful - you can open yourself up to a problem with WCAG 2.2 1.1.1 non-text content and it can be hard to debug at the end of the process!

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