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How to change the position of closed captioning on a screen
Hi,
We're using the accessible player and we want the closed captioning to show on top of the video and at the bottom of the video, as shown in the screenshot attached here. Is there a way to do t...
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.
One 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.
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.
Hi Articulate
I have to ask this.
Why could you not simply make a video player that works like all other video players on the web?
Why are the closed caption shown at the bottom of the screen and not part of the video player?
Why pretend to care about accessibility and then make things difficult when surely creating a video player that works in the way we would expect would have been easier?
It feels like every day we have to come up with workarounds to fix bugs or increasingly what feels like oversights on your part.
I'm increasingly frustrated by Storyline 😔
Thanks for reading.
Cannot agree more with Barry's comment. For the video player to not follow the standards set by the world's biggest video hosting platforms is incredibly frustrating. We want to move away from using a third-party video host so we can utilize Storyline's timing/trigger functions, but this caption placement directly contradicts accessibility recommendations. It also complicates our template design due to needing extra white space at the bottom, needlessly taking up space.
