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Hi Everyone! I’m new here and this is my first post. We (in Canada) have just been told that we need to add Descriptive Video to our Captivate eLearning Modules. These modules are being used internally and not public facing, so do we really need to add Descriptive Video? And how can you add it to a module that already has narration?
Thank you.
Hi Everyone! I’m new here and this is my first post. We (in Canada) have just been told that we need to add Descriptive Video to our Captivate eLearning Modules. These modules are being used internally and not public facing, so do we really need to add Descriptive Video? And how can you add it to a module that already has narration?
Thank you.
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Thanks Paul and Emily, such helpful insight as usual
Nancy, I would keep it simple and make sure that there is a narration in your videos that describes any action that appears on the screen. Even though Captivate doesn’t have the option for supplemental audio tracks for the purposes of descriptive video, making sure that your videos are inclusive for persons with poor vision should be enough to satisfy the requirement.
I have created US government compliance training in the past which requires descriptive video and Captivate is more than capable of handling that requirement. Basically for anything where you presently have a video, you’d edit it in your preferred software (Premiere?) and add another audio track with the description. This doesn’t need to be included in the closed captioning since those are for different accessibility requirements (visual for descriptive, auditory for closed captioning). Like Paul Wilson said, the Canadian Government website goes into lots of depth about requirements.
As for whether you should be required to do it or not, if you’re being asked to by your management, why do you not want to? If there is a need in your organization to meet this accessibility standard, you should.
Your explanation is for a ‘passive’ video, not for an interactive Captivate course. Even the explanation of Paul goes in that sense.
I don’t think it matters Lieve. Descriptive video is merely supplemental audio that explains what’s happening on screen. While there is no technical function built in to Captivate to accommodate this, you merely need to make sure the audio in your videos is inclusive for persons with a visual disability that may not be able to see all the actions occurring on-screen. I don’t see how interactive video or just interactive eLearning, in general, would prevent this. It wouldn’t be too difficult to add this capability in future versions of Adobe Captivate. I think I will submit this as a feature for future releases of Adobe Captivate.
