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From: Dominic Capuano (gmail)
Date: Nov 30, 2015 7:18AM


Hello Allan;

I have found that Captivate 9 output is not accessible "as is". I am able to
add accessibility with post processing. I will be posting a demo of this
shortly on my website. I will send you and this list a link shortly. In the
meantime if you have a sample course that you can send me I will apply my
methods to that for your review.

Dominic Capuano
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-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Zaitchik [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2015 3:54 PM
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Subject: [WebAIM] Captivate questions

I'm taking the liberty of reposting an earlier note which didn't trigger any
responses, to see if I can get a response from someone with hands-on
experience with Captivate 9. I apologize for the noise, but I really need
some input. The marketing information on the web is unclear at best, maybe
misleading.
Original post:
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I've been unable to get a very clear answer about the following, and I hope
that someone on this list has direct personal experience that can put my
mind at ease.
A customer has insisted that we develop in Captivate 9, despite well-known
(or at least reputed) shortcomings of C9 regarding accessibility. After our
team developed a few screens I ran them through various tests and I believe
that we have the following 508 non-compliance results. But perhaps we just
do not know enough about C9 ? That's why I am hoping someone will read this
and respond with what we have to do in order to satisfy accessibility
requirements in general or 508 requirements in particular- or say "no way-
cannot be done!"

What I have found:

1. No skip links are possible.
2. No H1... H6 headings detected by browser accessibility toolbars
(tests). Screen reader (JAWS, NVDA) could not list headings.
3. ONCLICK events defined for TOC elements- and I think elsewhere, too-
cannot be given a Role attribute.
4. Lists are apparent only as visually formatted elements but are not
processed as lists by screen reader
5. Tables cannot be given headings (column and row headings) and screen
reader cannot navigate tables as tables nor announce headings when reciting
data cells.

Any and all real answers are welcome! I keep finding marketing-quality
information about these matters, but I would like to hear from someone with
hands-on experience, if that's possible.
Thanks in advance,
A
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Thanks,
Alan