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  1. Captivate User Guide
  2. What's New in Adobe Captivate
  3. Adobe Captivate System Requirements
  4. Download Adobe Captivate
  5. Frequently Asked Questions
  6. Adobe Captivate Updates
    1. Adobe Captivate (12.6 update) release notes
    2. Adobe Captivate (12.5 update) release notes
    3. Adobe Captivate (12.4 update) release notes
    4. Adobe Captivate (12.3 update) release notes
    5. Adobe Captivate (12.2 update) release notes
    6. Adobe Captivate (12.1 update) release notes
  7. Configure URL access for Adobe Captivate features
  8. Create and deploy Captivate packages in Admin Console
  9. Add a slide
    1. Slide navigator in Adobe Captivate
    2. Add a conversation slide
    3. Add characters to your Adobe Captivate project
    4. Edit the background image on a slide
    5. Add padding to content blocks and components
    6. Create a long scroll project
  10. Design options in Adobe Captivate
    1. What are design options?
    2. Parts of a design option
    3. Create custom design options
    4. Modify a custom design option
    5. Export a custom design option
    6. Import a custom design option
  11. Add text blocks
    1. Add text to a project
    2. Add Adobe fonts to a project
  12. Add media blocks
    1. Add images to a project
    2. Add videos to a project
    3. Add quotes
    4. Add SVGs to a project
    5. Add web objects to a project
  13. Interactive components
    1. Add a button
    2. Add an input field
    3. Add a radio button group
    4. Add a dropdown
    5. Add a checkbox
  14. Add branding blocks
    1. Add a header to a project
    2. Add a footer to a project
  15. Widgets
    1. Add a Card
    2. Add Tabs
    3. Add a Certificate
    4. Add a Carousel
    5. Add a Hotspot
    6. Add Drag-and-Drop
    7. Add a Timeline
    8. Add Click to Reveal
    9. Add an Accordion
  16. Create quizzes
    1. Add a Multiple-choice question
    2. Add a True or false question
    3. Add a Match the column question
    4. Add a Short answer question
    5. Add a Sequence question
    6. Add question pools and random question slides
    7. Import questions as CSV
  17. Add audio to a project
    1. Add audio
    2. Add closed captions
  18. Interactions
    1. Add interactions to a project
    2. Create interactive video with overlay
    3. Create a slide-level interaction
    4. Create an object-level interaction
  19. Animations
    1. Add animations to a project
  20. Accessibility
    1. Create accessible eLearning content in Adobe Captivate
    2. Make a slide accessible
    3. Make slide objects accessible
    4. Make an interactive component accessible
    5. Make a widget accessible
    6. Make a quiz accessible
    7. TOC and Playbar accessibility
  21. Customize the timeline
    1. Timeline panel in Adobe Captivate
  22. Customize TOC and Playbar
    1. Table of Contents in Adobe Captivate
  23. Edit project properties
    1. Variables in Adobe Captivate
    2. Preferences
    3. Project dimensions
    4. Themes
  24. Create a simulation project
    1. Simulation
  25. Preview a project
    1. Preview
  26. Share a project for review
    1. Share for review
    2. FAQs and Troubleshooting guide for sharing projects for review   
  27. Publish a project
    1. Publish your project

Learn how to make a slide accessible and set speech agent language at a project level.

Slide accessibility

When creating accessible eLearning content, providing descriptive and informative text for each slide is important. Adobe Captivate allows you to specify accessibility text for the key information presented on the slide. Then, a screen reader reads out the text to the learner.

  1. Select Accessibility in the right toolbar.

    Select accessibility on the right panel
    Select accessibility in the right toolbar

  2. Enter the accessibility text in the Accessibility Text field.

    Enter accessibility text inside the Accessibility text field.
    Enter accessibility text

  3. Select the speech agent based on the language used for the accessibility text. For example, if you enter text in German, select German in the Speech Agent dropdown so a screen reader uses the locale-specific agent to read the text.

    Select the speech agent from the drop-down
    Select the speech agent

Set speech agent at a project level

Authors can set the language for a speech agent at a project level. This helps authors set the language once and not set the language for each slide/ component separately. 

  • After setting the speech agent language at the project level, you can still change the speech agent for individual components. This will not affect the project-level setting.

  • If you have already changed an object’s language and later updated the global setting, the object will keep its assigned language and will not adopt the new global setting.

  1. Launch Preferences  

    • For Windows: Open the Edit menu > select Preferences. Or use Ctrl +, shortcut from the keyboard.
    • For macOS: Open the Adobe Captivate drop-down menu > select Preferences. Or use the ⌘, shortcut on the keyboard. 

  2. Select Project and then select Publish to Computer.

  3. Select the speech agent language from the Language dropdown. 

    This image shows how to set speech agent at a project level
    Select the speech agent language for the project from Preferences

  4. Select OK to apply the speech agent at a project level.

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