Some shortcut keys don't work when publishing to HTML. Can this be fixed?

Report · Aug 25, 2015

I'm working in Captivate 8, and I have several buttons that have shortcut keys assigned to them, so the user can either select the button with their mouse or hit the shortcut key.

All of the shortcut keys appear to work fine when publishing to SWF, but some of them are problematic when publishing to HTML. Like F1, which brings up a Windows help file instead of activating the button in the presentation. Same thing with a TAB key. I have it set to advance the slide on success with the button, but using TAB as its corresponding shortcut key doesn't work.

I think this is related to how web browsers interact with keyboards. Is there any way I can fix this?

Thanks!

Report · Aug 25, 2015

You generally can't hijack the F keys as they are reserved for the browser functions. A Tab key is almost the same thing. Think of it terms of accessibility, how would a blind user use anything if you hijacked all of their keys?