Ensure your project is accessible - Captivate Tutorial

- [Narrator] Before sharing your completed project with others and publishing it, you'll want to ensure that everyone is able to access it. So in this movie, we'll explore some accessibility options as we continue with our Red30 Speak at Your Peak project, R30sayp0602. We're on slide number one here. We're going to start with something we saw moments ago, closed captions. Let's go down to the bottom right corner and click project properties. Scroll down to publish settings and show closed captions. We'll make sure that that slider is turned on. That way if there are any closed captions, people will be able to see them. Closed captioning is going to be used for people who have difficulty hearing things on the screen, such as narration. So if we want to add narration to a slide, all we do is select the slide over here in the top left corner. We'll go with our introductory slide, and then go over to the right to select audio. Here we've already added a special effect to the logo when it comes in, but we can also record audio right here. Recording audio, our voice will allow us to then apply closed captions. So let's click record, and down below you'll see a start recording button. You can do some calibrating if you wanted to, or simply skip this to go right to recording your voice. There'll be a countdown before you start recording. Speak at Your Peak is a Red30 production. We click stop recording, and if we wanted to, we could extend the slide display time if it's shorter than our narration. Now it really doesn't matter because as soon as we added navigation with the begin button, you can see the 5.7 seconds doesn't match the three seconds assigned to the slide by default, but it really doesn't matter. We can extend time knowing that it's going to sit there until someone hits begin anyway. Now we have some narration over here. We can edit that, clicking the edit button. You can see the narration. You can see it doesn't start for a couple of seconds, and that's good because we have a sound effect coming in. We can adjust that if we wanted to, trimming, for example. But I think we're okay with what we have, so we'll just click over here where we can fade it in, fade it out. You can loop it. What's most important, though, is down below where we can add captions. Click there, and as soon as you click there, you can see there's a type caption here section that you can double click to select and type in exactly what you just said. Speak at Your peak is a Red30 production, period. So we have exactly what we want. We can close this up now. Make sure that closed captioning is turned on. You'll see it down here at the bottom of the screen just above the timeline. And because we've enabled it in our settings, this is going to show up now, when we start playing this slide. We'll hear the narration and we'll also see this while the narration is happening. All right, some other accessibility options we can explore now are over here on the right hand side. There's an accessibility button you can click, and this is going to open slide accessibility and reading order. Accessibility text, if you wanted to, you could add it here. This is for the entire slide itself. I think everything on the slide, though, speaks for itself. So what's more important is that we see the tab order down below. When you click this slider, the tab order disappears. You can see it's just the begin button, but with its selected title text will be said. That's something that should be read out aloud to people who can't read it. As we hover down over title caption, you can see that that's going to be read out by a screen reader. The Red30 logo is a logo and it's not really text. So click it to expand it, and we can add label specifics to this image. So we can say Red 30 logo in red, like so. The other option is to simply hide it from the screen reader, if you didn't want screen readers looking at that image and try to read it, but I like adding that text so that it's described to the people who are accessing our project. There's the tap instructions. People will be able to read that in the begin button. I think we're ready to go on to the next slide. So you would continue doing this from slide to slide to slide, to ensure every single slide in your project is accessible. And keeping in mind that closed captioning need to be turned on from the project properties if you're going to be using them anywhere in your project.