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From: Moore,Michael (Accessibility) (HHSC)
Date: Nov 30, 2015 7:49AM

Hello Dominic and Alan,

I am working with some of our trainers right now on a project with Captivate 9 and although I was very skeptical going in about the accessibility of the output, I was quite surprised by the initial output - particularly since the training developer had not had any training in accessibility but had done some research and experimentation. I have noted a few problems that still need to be worked out.

1. Descriptions are being read for background images - I am assuming that these can be hidden fairly easily.
2. When the slide changes focus is still at the end of the flash movie so a screen reader user must navigate to the top of the page. - This is a common problem with FLASH and I am not sure that it can be overcome.
3. The operating systems high contrast settings are ignored (Windows). This is another FLASH specific issue. I am not sure that we can get around this one either.
4. There is not any structure - the developer minimized this impact through organization - there are not any tables and only a single topic or sub-topic is presented on a single slide so the lack of headings is not a serious issue.

Positive improvements that I observed in this training versus others that I have seen produced with previous versions of Captivate:

1. The reading order of the content was correct for every slide.
2. There were not a bunch of cryptic "buttons" that did not do anything.
3. Keyboard navigation worked cleanly when you were not using a screen reader, including a clear indication of focus.

Captivate 9 can also be published as HTML 5. I am interested to see if that resolves the FLASH specific issues that I have seen.

Dominic, can you share your techniques through this forum, a blog post or other means?



Mike Moore
Accessibility Coordinator
Texas Health and Human Services Commission
Civil Rights Office
(512) 438-3431 (Office)