NotificationHi everyone, I’ve recently been fed up with the spell checker in Captivate and decided to find another way/tool. My spelling is pretty good, but I often work on huge projects with lots of slides, and sometimes errors slip through. My first solution was to copy and paste every bit of text on each slide into a word document, but this took forever. It also delayed the delivery date and things still got missed because of hidden layers and hidden groups […]
I’ve been working in Javascript for over 7 years, and I’ve seen its sudden explosion over the past few years. Moving from the browser to the server, and now becoming a part of other frameworks, including WordPress. Now that I’ve discovered Captivate, I’m going to work hard to create dynamic use of Javascript within my Captivate projects, specifically integrating Captivate in an Angular 2 LMS project. I hope that others will join me to help create a strong presence of Javascript […]
I’m really excited to report that the next major release of Adobe Captivate has launched. Adobe has made the decision to break from the product numbers of the past and now simply call the product Adobe Captivate 2017 Release. In this article, I cover off some of the new features for you to consider. Responsive Design The most notable addition to this software is a new way to develop responsively designed courses. A feature known as fluid boxes allows users […]
Adobe just released Captivate 2017, and it is power-packed with a brand-new, easy-to-use workflow for creating responsive eLearning courses. This new workflow will allow you to easily create responsive projects, using fluid boxes instead of breakpoints, which makes it possible for you to design content for a single screen, and it works right on any device — any shape or size. Apart from the new responsive workflow, the other features and enhancements in Adobe Captivate 2017 are Typekit integration with […]
The latest update to Adobe Captivate, Adobe’s industry leading eLearning authoring tool is packed with solid enhancements that will make virtually any eLearning developer smile, and the team at Adobe brings home another marvel – incredible levels of intuition and automation when it comes to creating fully responsive content for mobile devices. Adobe is revolutionizing eLearning authoring again with the introduction of Fluid Boxes, a technology that
Have you wanted to add closed captioning to your captivate projects to enhance audience reach or to provide options to users who cannot listen to audio files in some locations, but found that the placement of the captions interfered with design elements? One of the new features in Captivate 10 puts control of closed captioning in the hands of content designers by providing a customization tool set. This short tutorial will step you through using the new feature. Go to […]
Intro When I posted the article about Pausing the Timeline (part of the sequence of articles about that most important panel), I promised to add some use cases to illustrate using pause and pausing points. Let us start with a simple use case, based on a recent forum question in this thread: Interactive Video Buttons Use Case – description It is clear that the user is not aware of the difference between pausing the timeline by an interactive object (pausing point) and by […]
Just wanted to put out some recurrent issues we’ve been running into and how we address them: Problem: Inaccessible screens in projects – When trying to use Inspect or other accessibility tools to check readability of objects inside a published Captivate project, the tool cannot get beyond reading the information associated with the slide level. Current solution: This seems to be associated with publishing as a swf – either in combination (swf/html5) or swf only. We’re now only publishing as […]
My personal view on the three stumbling blocks for developers starting to use Captivate: Timeline, Quiz and Themes. Each basic training should focus on them.
First – Smart shapes cannot be used as buttons in a project that must meet accessibility standards. Smart shape buttons are not accessible using the tab/enter combination. While you may or may not be able to tab to the shape, selecting “enter” or the space bar will not trigger the button action. Second – Smart shapes with text are not automatically read like a text caption. You must enter the text in the accessibility pop-up in order for the […]
