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kevin_stagg
kevin_stagg
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January 2, 2014
Question

Closed Captioning Repositioning

  • January 2, 2014
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Short of a paid widget - is there a way to reposition placement of where CC is located? Right now it is on top of where I have branding for a client template. I'd love to just have it moved up like 50px. I don't see anything in CC Project Settings showing any x or y alignment options. Nor do I see anything in the Style Manager or Skin Editor.

Many thanks -
Kevin

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kevin_stagg
kevin_staggAuthor
Known Participant
January 2, 2014

OK - here is the thing. If I can't reposition the CC, please tell me if this would work in the grand scheme of things. I just have a 5 minute video - what if I were to:

  • Insert a caption in a certain position on screen, where I'd like my text of the video (progressively loaded across one slide) to appear for the hearing impaired
  • Each caption would stretch across the width of the video and all would be uniform in height as well and in the same position
  • These would be timed with the corresponding text, on the timeline of the video
  • At the beginning of the video I place a colored block over those captions so that they would be immediately hidden from the beginning of the slide and it would stay thru the end of the slide
  • Next to the colored box would be a button saying "press for CC"
  • Pressing this button would hide the block and allow them to see the captions underneath, which are in-sync with the timeline
  • The videos wouldn't have to automatically launch - there could of course be a start button they'd have to push to play

Would this be acceptable for the hearing impaired, or would we have to follow the CC settings set within Captivate as it follows a certain govt standard I am not familiar with (which would not surprise me).

Thanks for your help with this -

Kevin

Justenuf2bdangerous
Justenuf2bdangerous
Inspiring
January 2, 2014

Kevin:

Not sure about the repositioning on CC, but your alternative would meet standards (at least with the departments of the gov't I've done work for). You definitely don't want videos with audio to auto-launch if accessibility is an issue - the audio recoding would be playing at the same time as the screen reader - automatic fail. Make sure your mute button is operational and set up your CC alternative (toggle button) and you should be good to go from that perspective. If you find a way to move CC around, I'd be really interested.

Justenuf

kevin_stagg
kevin_staggAuthor
Known Participant
January 2, 2014

So - so long as the video is paused at start and I give them a toggle for CC - then I'm good to go?

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