2 improvements I would like to see for Closed Captions in StoryLine 360

Hi Richard,

Thanks for sharing those features requests with us! Customizing captions is a feature we have recorded, so I'll be sure to add your voice to it! 

I also appreciate your added insight into using the Notes section along with the Closed Captions editor. I’ll be happy to pass your thoughts on to our product team, but you can also feel free to detail them more through a feature request! 

Thanks so much. Will do. 

Take care

Rick

Have there been any updates on this? I have a client requesting to change the positioning of the CC text. Wondering how to do this.

Hi Sarah! 

We've logged this as a feature request to customize the placement and color of closed captioning. We don't have this feature on our immediate roadmap, but we'll report back to this discussion when we have an update. You can stay up to date with what is on our radar by bookmarking the roadmap!

Thanks so much Lauren for the update on this. Great to hear. I imagine you will do this but don't forget to add the font size as well as placement and colour. Take care.

Hi, Rick,

You can adjust the caption size. That's done via the Player font size: 

However, as shown in the image above, that also controls the size of the player-level text, such as the project Title and the PREV and NEXT buttons. 

So the real request for Articulate: Add a separate control for the Captions font size!

Add one more vote for being able to set the position of the CC text block.  The current setup eats up alot of the stage.  

Any word on this? At 100% Player font size, the CC text is probably unreadable for over 50% of the population. To get it to a comfortable size you have to go to at least 150%, which in turn makes your ToC enormous along with all the other text you have on stage (Title, Resources etc.)

Not to mention what it does to the actual links in your resources list. Try it with a list of links where they have over 5 words, it's just a disaster.

This is a broken feature in my mind. 

Don't hold your breath. Articulate had been very slow to make any real
improvements to their product over the last few years. They seem to be
resting on their laurels to me.

Hi everyone,

Great news!  We just released another update for Articulate 360 and included some new features a few important fixes you'll see in the release notes.

The item you'll be interested in is:

New: Make closed captions easier to read. Increase the captions font size up to 200% in the modern player.

Just launch the Articulate 360 desktop app on your computer and click the Update button for Storyline 360. Details here.

Please let us know if you have any questions, either here or by reaching out to our Support Engineers directly.

Hi everyone,

I have some great news to share. We just released another update for Storyline 360. In Update 86, we’ve included important fixes and new features.

Two of the new features we’ve included: 

• Position captions at the top or bottom of the slide to ensure closed caption visibility and prevent the obstruction of critical course content.
• Customize the foreground and background colors of closed captions to complement your course design and maintain contrast accessibility

Launch the Articulate 360 desktop app on your computer to take advantage of this update, and click the Update button next to Storyline 360. You’ll find our step-by-step instructions here.

Please let me know if you have any questions.