Adobe Community: Captivate 5 - Closed caption scrolling text

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1. Captiv8r,

Apr 16, 2012 6:56 AM in reply to xquzame

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Hi there

Unfortunately that's not an option in Captivate. It is what it is.

I do suppose it may be possible for one of the Flash wizards among us to maybe create a widget that would do this. But I've never seen it.

You might also consider asking the Adobe team for the capability in a future version of Captivate. You do this by using the Wish Form. (Link is in my sig)

Cheers... Rick

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2. RodWard,

Apr 16, 2012 7:08 AM in reply to Captiv8r

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I don't know of any widget that creates a scrolling closed caption area in Captivate. But there's a widget that Jim Leichliter made that allows you to reposition the CC area: http://captivatedev.com/2011/02/23/adobe-captivate-5-widget-reposition -closed-captions/

That's about as close as you get.

Personally I don't see the point in using a scrolling area for the CC text. I often have a minute or more of voiceover on a single Captivate slide and I just break the CC text up into single lines that I synch with the audio using the Slide Audio > Closed Captions dialog. User's should not be required to scroll anything while they're trying to watch the content.

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3. Captiv8r,

Apr 16, 2012 7:35 AM in reply to RodWard

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Rod, I can easily see why folks want the scrolling. I'm assuming they are wanting a vertical scroll as opposed to a horizontal one.

I can see it because at least here in the US (assuming it works similar elsewhere) when you watch CC on television sets, it scrolls vertically.

Cheers... Rick

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4. RodWard,

Apr 16, 2012 8:21 AM in reply to Captiv8r

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That may be the case, but moving text is very bad usability. You cannot effectively read text that isn't standing still. It's one of the reasons we all hated marqui text scrolling across web pages.

If someone wants scrolling CC text, that's their choice. But for solutions designed to help disabled or challenged users, I much prefer a solution where the text doesn't move, because that has better overall usability.

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5. Captiv8r,

Apr 16, 2012 8:41 AM in reply to RodWard

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Hi Rod

Well, in my own experience, it "sort of" scrolls. What I mean by that is that often I see the words appear almost as if they are being typed in real time. But there are always perhaps three, or sometimes may be four lines of text visible. This gives one a chance to "catch up", if perhaps they are a slow reader. The lines aren't constantly moving. Just as the second line appears, the first moves up a line. The third line appears and the first and second move up. The fourth line appears and the first disappears as the second moves up to replace it.

And so on.

So you have this little area on the screen where the text "scrolls" by jumping one line at a time. ;-)

Cheers... Rick

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