Cybersecurity Awareness Training Accessibility and Usability Information

The Cybersecurity Awareness Training is offered through the UW–Madison Office of Cybersecurity and educates UW–Madison employees and students on ways to avoid and address cybersecurity risks.

There are currently two versions of the online Cybersecurity Awareness Training.

• Cybersecurity Awareness Training (in Workday)
  • For employees (including student employees)
  • Created in Articulate Rise 360
  • Includes text, images, and vendor videos from Proofpoint
• Student Cybersecurity Awareness Training (in Canvas)
  • For students (excluding student employees)
  • Created in Articulate Rise 360
  • Includes text, images, and vendor videos from Proofpoint

Get help

If employees have concerns about completing the cybersecurity training due to a known or experienced barrier, they should contact their Divisional Disability Representative for disability-related barriers or their human resources office for all other barriers. 

For assistance with the cybersecurity training or to report an accessibility barrier, contact cybersecurityawareness@cio.wisc.edu. Submit a GetHelpUW ticket for technical difficulties or questions about Workday.

Articulate Rise 360 accessibility features

The Cybersecurity Awareness Training in Workday and the Student Cybersecurity Awareness Training in Canvas both use Articulate Rise 360. Keep reading to learn about the accessibility features included in these courses.

Keyboard Navigation 

Articulate Rise 360 offers keyboard-accessible shortcuts to help learners navigate using a keyboard. Shortcuts can help learners who find a mouse or other device a barrier in their learning.

Screen Readers 

Articulate Rise 360 supports JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, and TalkBack screen readers with their supported browsers.

Accessibility and usability barriers 

The following barriers were identified in an accessibility evaluation of the 2026 Cybersecurity Awareness Training. 

Cybersecurity Awareness Training (Workday)

Lack of status updates on Workday course enrollment page may impact screen reader users

After selecting the Enroll button on the course enrollment page in Workday, the page refreshes and the Enroll button becomes the Start Course or Resume Course button. There is no status update or other obvious change to the page content, which could cause confusion on how to access the course after enrolling.

Readability and text barriers may impact users with visual, motor, or cognitive disabilities

On the enrollment page, many of the labels start with “UWMSN” as shorthand for UW–Madison. Screen readers often try to announce this phonetically. This can make it difficult to discern different elements of the page. Additionally, content in collapsed sections can collide as the user Tabs through available links on the enrollment page. The content reflows when the user expands the section, but it can be difficult to track keyboard focus.

In the Rise 360 part of the course, many buttons use all caps text. This could make them difficult to read for users with reading disabilities or low vision. Using all caps text for buttons is a default style setting in Rise 360. Links that open in a new tab may impact users with visual disabilities

Readability and navigation barriers may impact users with visual, motor, or cognitive disabilities

On the course enrollment page in Workday, many of the labels start with “UWMSN” as shorthand for UW–Madison. Screen readers often try to announce this phonetically. This can make it difficult to discern different elements of the page. 

Also on the course enrollment page in Workday, content in the collapsed course description section may visually collide and overlap as the user Tabs through available links. The content reflows when the user expands the section, but it can be difficult to track keyboard focus initially due to the overlapping content.

In the Rise 360 course, many buttons use all caps text. This could make them difficult to read for users with reading disabilities or low vision. Using all caps text for buttons is a default style setting in Rise 360 that cannot be changed. 

Non-hierarchical heading structure may impact screen reader users

In the Rise 360 course, accordion elements use level 2 headings (h2), which is the same heading level used to indicate new content sections within a lesson. This could cause initial confusion for users when navigating the headings list. Additionally, there are two instances where regular text is used to indicate a new content section within a lesson.

Videos without text transcripts may impact users with visual and hearing disabilities

Videos in the Rise 360 course contain synchronized captions, but text transcripts are not provided, which could make the video content difficult to access for users with both visual and hearing disabilities. 

Text reflow barrier may impact users with visual disabilities

In the Rise 360 course, users who have low vision may experience minor difficulty reading each lesson number (such as “Lesson 1 of 12”) at the beginning of a lesson, due to slightly overlapping text at high levels of magnification and small window widths.

Student Cybersecurity Awareness Training (Canvas)

The student training will be available in the Spring 2026 semester.