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From: Keith Parks
Date: Oct 15, 2007 11:30AM

On Oct 15, 2007, at 9:07 AM, Karl Groves wrote:

>
> (Asking on this list because the info may benefit others)
>
> Andrew,
>
> I was wondering what you know about Adobe Captivate and accessibility,
> especially regarding the controls. I was recently shown a tutorial
> (on a
> Gov't site) created by captivate. The content producer did a pretty
> good job
> of narrating well, but the thing I immediately noticed was I could not
> activate the controls by keyboard. Is this a missing feature or
> something
> that was missed by the content producer? I'm unable to find
> anything about
> that on the Captivate 3 accessibility page:
> http://www.adobe.com/accessibility/products/captivate/index.html

Seems like keyboard access is doable...

<http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/video_captionate_06.html>;

Interesting that it looks like Captionate was recently purchased by
Adobe, since it's now called "Adobe® Captivate® 3". When I looked
into it only a few days ago it was still an independent product

< http://www.buraks.com/captionate/>;

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San Diego State University
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