Adobe CAPTIVATE 5 Help Manual page 195

Last updated 4/22/2010
• Document methods of accessibility for users.
• Avoid looping objects. When a screen reader encounters content meant for Flash Player, the screen reader notifies
the user with audio, such as "Loading....load done." As content in a project changes, Flash Player sends an event to
the screen reader notifying it of a change. In response, the screen reader returns to the top of the page and begins
reading again. Therefore, a looping text animation on a slide, for example, can cause the screen reader to
continually return to the top of the page.
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If you are creating click boxes, you can make them more accessible by adding sound. The sound can play when users
tab to the click box or hover over it. To add this accessibility feature, attach a sound file to the hint caption. (If you
do not want the hint caption to appear on the slide, you can make the caption transparent and add no text.)
• Accessibility in Adobe Captivate demos works better when all the slides have interactive content. If you are using
JAWS 6.1 or later, be aware that JAWS sometimes does not clear the Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA) tree.
As a result, the content of previous slides can replay when slides are continuous. This problem does not occur in
JAWS 4.5.
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Add accessibility text to slides
A screen reader can read aloud text that appears on the computer screen. Screen readers are useful for people with
visual impairment. In Adobe Captivate, you can write text describing each slide for screen readers to read aloud.
Open the slide to which you want to add accessible text.
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In the Property Inspector, click Accessibility.
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3 Type the text that you want the screen reader to read aloud.
4 To use the slide notes (Text-to-speech and closed captioning included), click Import Slide Notes.
Customize accessibility text for objects
You can add accessible text to individual objects on a slide. When the object appears in the movie, the screen reader
reads that text aloud. If you do not specify accessible text for an object, the screen reader reads the default text. For
example, if the object is an image, it reads Graphics Image. This default text is generally not sufficiently descriptive to
help a visually impaired user. Also, objects other than text captions and text entry boxes do not contain any text.
Accessible text for such objects can help users understand their purpose in the movie.
Select the object whose accessibility text you want to customize.
1
In the Property Inspector, click Accessibility.
2
Deselect Auto Label. When Auto Label is selected, the text in the object is read aloud by the screen reader.
3
4 In the Item Accessibility dialog box, do the following:
Enter the accessibility name. For a text caption, you can enter "This text is in a caption," for
Accessibility Name
example.
Accessibility Description
example, consider the text caption "Select File > Edit Image." You can change the text to "From the File menu, select
the Edit Image command. This command is available only when an image is selected on the slide."
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Add a description to clarify information for the person using the screen reader. For
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