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DavidC-017df4ad
Community Member
9 years ago

Closed captions on video tutorials

I find the info and help here at elearning heros to be fantastic. The only thing I would suggest is that those making tutorial videos consider including captions. I am deaf and although I can get the drift of these videos by watching. Captions would take them to a new level.

  • Hi David; thanks for the kind words!  The video tutorials in the Getting Started with Storyline series should give you the option to select closed captioning once you start playing the video:

    If you click the CC down in the lower right corner, it will initiate captions that will look like this:  

    For right now, the Studio '13 Getting Started video tutorials are hosted without the ability to select closed captioning.  I'm sorry for the trouble on that.  I brought this situation up to our community teams so that they can consider making that function accessible.

    Thanks so much for sharing!

  • Hi

    I was wondering if there is any development on Captions available on video tutorials (as I see it was posted 4 years ago). I do hope so as many of our user will be Deaf.

  • Hi Martin!

    You're right, those videos and webinars don't have closed captioning options.

    Not to worry, our training team will be able to provide a better option. Would you mind contacting them at training@articulate.com

    I've already let them know that you'll be contacting them so they'll reply shortly after!

  • JennyFarrar's avatar
    JennyFarrar
    Community Member

    Could we please also have the option for CC to be ON from the beginning as a default option so that users have CC ON when they start and can turn it off if/when they decide  they don't need/want it on.

  • JoeFrancis's avatar
    JoeFrancis
    Community Member

    You can change the default value of the built-in variable Player.DisplayCaptions to TRUE. You can also add a trigger to the first slide which sets the value of the variable to TRUE when the course starts.

    • JennyFarrar's avatar
      JennyFarrar
      Community Member

      Thank You Joseph. Where do I find these settings?
      I would like the player to just always open and start with CC ON.

      Not just display the CC icon which there is a check-box for in player settings,
      but have CC ON and displaying the actual captions from the get go.

  • JennyFarrar's avatar
    JennyFarrar
    Community Member

    Thank you everyone!
    Where can I set this as a default for every slide?