Release V1.13.1 · Esri/storymap-journal

This is a minor release that contains significant accessibility enhancements and several bug fixes.

Authors may enter alternative text for media in the main stage or narrative panel. Alternative text is utilized by assistive technologies and allows the content and function of media to be accessible to readers with disabilities.
<h1> and <h2> HTML tags are utilized for the story and section titles, respectively, to provide better narrative structure for readers using assistive technologies.
ARIA landmarks have been added to provide better semantic structure improving orientation and navigation for readers using assistive technologies.
Keyboard focus can be moved from main stage media elements back to the narrative panel in a consistent way for all media types.
Several hidden buttons have been added to improve keyboard navigation. The buttons appear on focus when TAB is used to navigate the story's interactive elements.
Several buttons and UI elements have new labels to better identify them to assistive technologies.
The gradient fill effect has been removed from the main stage background, and some main stage background colors have been adjusted.
Section navigation bar has been simplified for Journals with more than 15 sections.

Autoplay controls are now visible for Shared Themes that use white as the header background color.
Sections with a very long word in the section name can now be deleted.
Addressed a video layout issue caused by a change in the Vimeo embeddable player.
Several localization issues have been addressed.

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