font size of closed captions (SL360)

I'm also having trouble with the size of the captions. It's a great feature, but I don't understand how they can be so small and meet standards. If you are working on large slide size that doesn't allow for much expansion, they look really tiny on the screen. I have clients asking for these to be larger as well. Really hoping that caption size options get added soon. 

Thanks Matthew. I have mine set to 200%. My slide size (determined by client template) is quite large, and can't expand much and the captions still look small. I'm used to doing captions in Camtasia which has a larger font size by default. Thanks for the response! 

I'm interested in the hack, but the particular project I'm on now is big and not simple, and can't be broken (deadline is too soon). I'd like to know if there is a workaround though. I have had clients who publish only to HTML5 and it could be useful in those cases. 

Hi Matthew can you share the hack with me too :-) I need to increase the size of the captions independently of the rest of the font sizes in the player

Thanks for sharing that hack, Matthew. Unfortunately, we publish in Flash with HTML5 fall back, so it won't work for me.

Traci P mentioned captions in Camtasia. They have the captions set up a certain way that by default are apparently ADA compliant e.g. Arial, 24pt, left justified, and more. If you change any of the defaults, it will tell you you're no longer compliant.

Making the player font bigger does make the captions bigger but even at 140% it doesn't come close to 24 pt. Also, there are some side effects to making the player font bigger e.g. the lines that separate the Player Tab titles on the topbar do not increase in size and are not middle-aligned with the titles, so they are higher up toward the top of the player than the titles are.

Leslie mentioned that Soren submitted a feature request but I see he deleted a couple of posts so...could you please confirm that the request was submitted?

I put a feature request in for adjustable font size for suntitles in same day I made this post I think. That is not the same as it winning the attention battle for time and ressources. There are marketing wars to be won out there, and since the ‘Closed Captions’ tick box have been ticked (halfway useless or not) focus must be on the next ‘differentiating’ sexy feature to put on the comparisson charts.

New version landed yesterday, I didn’t test it but I saw no mention of adjustable font size for subtitles in the patch notes.

Thanks for the great discussion. As I work for a company that produce software, I feel Articulate's pain.

It took me a while to find the feature request link, so for those interested, here it is: https://articulate.com/support/contact/feature-request 

Same story. We just rolled out our first courses and this was the first comment we got: "please encrease font size of closed captions!". Very much looking forward to the release :-)!

2 years later still not possible to style subtitles? 

Hello,

I have the same problem with closed captions/subtitle font being too small.
Increasing the font size of all the player is not a good solution.
Please implement this feature rather than new components.