Dropdown answer extends past side of screen for student with accessibility needs. Solutions?

[BrendanWilliams]

A student has stated that sometimes the answers for dropdown questions are too long and they extend past the side of the screen. This is a result of the student viewing the content zoomed in a lot so they can see the text. Aside from shortening the answer length (which I don't think is unreasonably long, and which could still cause problems for other students who need to zoom in even more), what is a solution for this? All I can think of is recommending the student use a screen reader in these situations.

[Chris_Hofer]

Hi there, @BrendanWilliams ...

A couple questions for you:

• Are you using Classic Quizzes or New Quizzes?
  • Quizzes Overview (Instructors)
  • New Quizzes Overview (Instructors)
• What question type is being used where there is a drop-down selection for students?

Looking forward to hearing back from you soon.

[BrendanWilliams]

It's a Matching Question on a Classic Quiz.
Thanks

[Chris_Hofer]

Hi @BrendanWilliams ...

I think there might be a simple fix to this...depending on how your questions are formed.  For example, when building a matching question, you can see that I put the colors on the left side, and then I put the long answers on the right side.

The result from a student perspective looks like this:

In your own quiz, if you have short answers (on the left) and longer choices (on the right), have you considered flipping those around?  The result would instead look something like this:

I'm not sure what the length of your matching pairs are, but you might want to consider swapping things around if that is possible.  I think you and your students will have a better experience where text isn't running off the side of the screen as you describe.

Hope this helps a bit.  Keep us posted...thanks!

[BrendanWilliams]

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll give that a try!