Closed Captioning

[PaulFinnell]

Since Closed Captioining is the Accessibility function for Recording, I thought I would ask the question in this forum.

I have a myriad of notes in all my projects. Unfortunately, if I voice over my notes, the file expands 2 to 3 fold. Not always a good idea. However, I have all thees great slide notes that no one can see in the published product. I can put it in the Accessibility for 508 compliance, but only those few users with screen readers can utilize that method of retrieving the notes. I would like to put those notes into a closed caption, but in order to do so, I must have an audio track - that I do not wish to have.

Has anyone come up with a good method of displaying the slide notes for the viewer to see. I would like to have a scrolling colsed captioning text window that will display the notes. I have read the Help but not found this functionality in Capivate. Any ideas?

[Captiv8r]

Hi PaulFinnell

I suppose one way to achieve this would be to create some audio clips that are nothing more than silence. Then attach them to your slides and off you go.

Just a thought... Rick

[PaulFinnell]

Did that to begin with and figured out how to overcome some issues with doing so, but, do you have an idea on the scrolling? I can not seem to get the text to scroll. Am I missing a process step?

[Captiv8r]

Hi again

Ahhhh, you mentioned scrolling. I offer my sincere apologies for spacing that off. There is currently no way for Captivate Closed Captioning to work that way. You would have to create your own little Flash widget to do that if that's the way you want it to work. Currently, it simply blasts one, two or three lines at a time into the Closed Captioning display area. (How many lines depends on how much text is inside the Closed Captioning segment as well as how many lines you have configured to show)

Cheers... Rick

[ellenwill]

Hi,

I am also trying to include non-audio notes in my project and wanted to use closed captioning as would be sufficient but i cannot do it with out adding audio :-<

Is there any way to add notes without closed captioning that can be turned on or off with CC button?

Ellen