Hi Chandu. Echoing Michelle's question, is it possible for you to add some closed captioning or an audio transcript to your course? Those are two approaches you could use to accommodate hearing impaired learners.
This previous discussion thread from Articulate Hero, Steve Flowers, offers a step by step demo and .story file to demonstrate one way you can add closed captioning to a Storyline project.
You can upload your presentation to youtube for quick and convenient captioning. This is helpful resource, and only thing you have to remember is that you need to edit the caption thats it.
My eLearning developer is deaf. Readable closed captioning is key. She doesn't like the built in transcript feature in Storyline because it's hard for her to read that and see what all is happening on screen, so we keep a shape at the bottom of the slides and do manual Closed Captioning. Takes a bit of time and effort but is a better experience for learner's. Use caution if auto captioning with YouTube, most of the time it's quite off and we've had it put very unprofessional language in the captioning.
Yes, closed captioning, or simply put: subtitles, is the key.
Steve's example is the best way to build it. It's fairly easy but somewhat time consuming. Give it a try and make sure to plan for the additional time developing this setup.
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Are you able to add closed captions or text to the slides with voice overs?
Hi Chandu. Echoing Michelle's question, is it possible for you to add some closed captioning or an audio transcript to your course? Those are two approaches you could use to accommodate hearing impaired learners.
This previous discussion thread from Articulate Hero, Steve Flowers, offers a step by step demo and .story file to demonstrate one way you can add closed captioning to a Storyline project.
We've also put together a free eBook, "6 Best Practices for Designing Accessible E-Learning," which you can download and read to learn more about accessibility in e-learning.
Hope this helps!
If your users have the bandwidth and you can use video, you can add a video clip of a person signing on the parts of your course with voiceover.
You can upload your presentation to youtube for quick and convenient captioning. This is helpful resource, and only thing you have to remember is that you need to edit the caption thats it.
My eLearning developer is deaf. Readable closed captioning is key. She doesn't like the built in transcript feature in Storyline because it's hard for her to read that and see what all is happening on screen, so we keep a shape at the bottom of the slides and do manual Closed Captioning. Takes a bit of time and effort but is a better experience for learner's. Use caution if auto captioning with YouTube, most of the time it's quite off and we've had it put very unprofessional language in the captioning.
Yes, closed captioning, or simply put: subtitles, is the key.
Steve's example is the best way to build it. It's fairly easy but somewhat time consuming. Give it a try and make sure to plan for the additional time developing this setup.
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