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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Dec 19, 2007 9:30AM

We have Adobe Captivate which does screen casts and more. It also supports captioning.

General info: http://www.adobe.com/accessibility/products/captivate/
Screencast demo (showing one way to add captions): http://www.adobe.com/accessibility/products/captivate/Adobe_Captivate_cc_tutorial_demo.html

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> Jing is more or less a subset of Camtasia with a limited
> production preset designed for short quick captures. The full
> version of Camtasia hers support for captioning as well as a
> choice of output formats. http://techsmith.com.
> I use it for my order tutorials (not all of which are
> currently captioned but I'm adding captions as time permits.)
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John E. Brandt
>
>
> I recently used the free service Jing
> http://www.jingproject.com/ to create some "screencasts" only
> to realize that they are not accessible. I tried to figure
> out if there was a way to caption them, but was not able to
> accomplish this. I believe Jing creates content in Flash video.
>
> Does anyone know of an accessible alternative. I guess I am
> willing to pay for something, but would prefer open source.
>
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