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Q&A: New Content Formats — Guides, Decks, Interactive Video, & Scenarios
Hi Maryna_K,
Thanks for explaining how you’re using Interactive Video with German-speaking learners, and for sharing why this matters for accessibility. It sounds like you’d like the player text, including the labels screen readers announce, to appear in German without using the paid translation feature.
At the moment, Interactive Video doesn’t have a setting to change the label language. The Labels settings you use in Rise courses, which also cover screen reader labels, aren’t available for this format, and I don’t have a timeline to share.
I’d love to understand your setup a bit more. Are your videos and checkpoint content already in German, so the labels like Chapters and the start button are the only things that need to change?
Hi,
Thank you for your response!
Yes, my video content is already in German, including the video itself and the content used in checkpoints.
The main issue is that I can't customize the default English labels in the Interactive Video player.
For example, I'd like to change:
- Chapters → Kapitel
- Start Video
- Resume Video
- Paused at
The same issue applies to checkpoints. When I add quiz questions, labels and messages such as:
- Submit
- Please answer the question to continue
- Take Again
are also displayed in English by default, with no option to edit them.
Since the entire learning experience is designed for German-speaking learners, having these interface elements in English creates an inconsistent experience and can also affect accessibility, particularly for learners using screen readers.
Ideally, I'd like to be able to customize these labels manually, as is already possible in Rise courses, without having to use the paid translation feature.
Thank you again for your help!
Best regards,
Maryna
Hi Maryna_K,
Thank you for the detailed examples, and I appreciate you taking the time to list the exact labels. Having Chapters, Start Video, Resume Video, Paused at, and the checkpoint messages like Submit and Take Again appear in English next to German video and checkpoint content makes for an inconsistent experience, and I can see why that matters for your learners who use screen readers.
What you’re after is a way to edit those player and checkpoint labels yourself, the way you can in Rise courses, without using the paid translation feature. At the moment, there isn’t a way to do that, since the Labels settings aren’t available for Interactive Video, and that applies to the checkpoint messages as well. Your examples make it clear how much this matters for your German-speaking learners.