Even more accessible!

:rocket: Exciting news from our team!

We’re thrilled to share that Evolve has successfully passed a second rigorous accessibility audit! This milestone allows us to confirm three more components—narrative, text narrative, and GIF—and also the search extension – as accessible within Evolve.

Accessibility is at the heart of what we do, and we’re committed to ensuring that everyone can create and engage with content seamlessly.

Thank you to our community for your feedback and support on this journey. Together, we’re making content creation more inclusive and impactful! :bulb::sparkles:

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Love to see it! Making it easier to make courses accessible is super useful, thank you :smiley:

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Great news! thank you for this update

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This is a fantastic update. Thank you very much for sharing!

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Just to note: the accessibility indicators:

Evolve's accessibility indicator

haven’t been updated for these new four accessible items yet.

Nor do the components appear if you filter for ‘Accessible’ like this:

That’ll be fixed very soon (this week, probably). These have been updated now!

We also made one other big update following feedback from the audit - which was to remove disabled buttons from the ‘tab flow’ (they can still be accessed by screen readers though). They also now show the ‘not allowed’ cursor on hover when disabled - in line with accessible style guidelines such as the GOV.UK design system.

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Hi Matt, Having updated some courses in the last couple of months that I thought were not accessible around narratives, but included as a standard, at what point in the timeline (date) were the changes in place to pass the audit? I’m assuming they are currently live. Thanks.

The main changes to it were released on July 10th this year.

Then on 19th November we released a further update (following a recommendation from the accessibility audit) to add a Slide ARIA Label field to each of the slide items so as to allow for a slide count to be appended to the Next/Previous Slide Button ARIA Label so that you can set it to be something like ‘next slide 2 of 3’. I would say if you haven’t got that set it’s probably not a major issue as it’s really there just to give more context to someone relying solely on a screen reader.