My client requires that all animations are screen reader accessible, but it appears that Animate CC outputs text as SVG objects drawn to canvas. It does not appear that any of the actual text is output into the HTML as alt text or "screen readable" text. Is there any text accessibility features built into Animate CC 2018? Maybe a toggle hidden somewhere in the menus?
Cmaxstersssss wrote
My client requires that all animations are screen reader accessible, but it appears that Animate CC outputs text as SVG objects drawn to canvas.
It does no such thing. Dynamic text is stored as strings and rendered using the HTML5 canvas fillText() method. Static text is converted at publish time to EaselJS vector graphics instructions.
However, no, there is no secret accessibility support in Canvas documents. They may add it at some point in the future, but for now screen readers will only see a Canvas document as a featureless bitmap.
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