Changing the colour of the closed captions and its background ?

Hi Lori!

We don't have an update to share, but when we do, we'll report back to this discussion! Thank you for checking in on this request!

Up, up, up with this thread.

I'd be interested in CC customisation as well.

Hi,

Yep, it would be great to have the ability to change the CC background color and the CC fonts in Storyline. We have more than 70 videos for which we needed to add CC. As Storyline couldn't help us out we used Kapwing for the same. It was a useful tool.

Thanks

Sajna

 I worked on this last year and made my captions white on dark grey with a rounded rectangle (see attached image). However, now I can't remember how I changed the color and shape!

I'd like to change it to a black  background and rectangle and so it matches standard television closed captions.

Does anyone have a suggestion?

Hello,

Any progress on CC customisation? Its been 2 years this thread is open.

Hi, Chirag!

I'm sorry that I don't have an update to share about customizing closed captions at this time.

We're closely tracking requests for this option and are continuing to target several accessibility improvements. We'll keep in touch with any news.

Let me know if there's anything else I can do. I'm happy to help!

📕 Related Resource: Articulate 360 Feature Roadmap

Is there any update on CC customization?

Hi Vimal,

We don’t have currently have plans for this feature in our roadmap yet, but we’ll remain active in our tracking of this request and be sure to update this discussion if anything changes!

This is something we need for my company as well. Can you please add me to this feature request? Seems like a very basic thing that people should have the ability to modify. 

There are some work arounds if you're willing to go to the trouble of creating your own captions.  It's a little more tedious, but actually not too bad once you get it set up.  

- Put text boxes on your slides in whatever size, color, font, and position you like. 

- Synch to audio on timeline.

- Cover text boxes with a shape that blends in to background to hide them.

- Create a CC button that toggles a True/False Variable

- Use a combination of triggers for "on click of CC button" and "when timeline starts" that change the state of the covering shape from normal to hidden (and vice versa) conditional to the state of the CC Variable.  

- For example, to make captions "appear"  (Change state of "CC Cover Shape" to hidden, when user clicks "CC Button" , If "CC Variable" = True)

You may need to play around with it to get it to work like you want, and it's definitely not as easy as the standard caption tool, but it is an option...