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Make slide objects accessible

Last updated on May 16, 2025

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Learn how to make interactive and non-interactive slide objects accessible.

Make slide objects accessible

Using Adobe Captivate, you can define accessibility for images, text, SVGs, or videos on a slide

Select an image on the slide.
Select Accessibility in the right toolbar. The reading order displays all objects on the slide.

Reading order displays the sequence of objects in a slide

All objects on the slide are read in the order displayed in the Reading Order section. The sequence of the objects in the Reading Order is top to bottom and left to right.

For example, if you select a text object in the Reading Order, the speech agent reads the text on the slide.

Hide from screenreader toggle

Hide from screen reader

When you enable the option Hide from screenreader, the screen reader ignores the object.

Show tab order

If you enable the toggle Show tab order, it shows the navigation order of the interactive objects on the slide. You can reorder the interactive objects by dragging them to the required position.

Reorder objects by dragging them to a required position
Select an object, for example, an image on the slide.

Select an image inside a slide
If you've added any state to the object, you can add accessibility text and select a speech agent for each state.

View the next section for more information on adding accessibility to states.

Select the state of an object to add accessibility text

Make a non-interactive object accessible

You can make an image or any non-interactive object accessible.

Select Add media blocks > Image grid in the left toolbar to insert an image grid content block in the slide.
Insert an image from Assets or your computer. For more information on inserting images, view Add images to a project in Adobe Captivate.
Click Accessibility in the right toolbar.

In the Reading order section, you can add accessibility text for the image. If you want the screen reader to read out the text, keep the toggle Hide from screenreader disabled.

Note:

You can hide certain objects from the screen reader by enabling the Hide from screenreader toggle for each object.
If you want to add accessibility to any text, select the text in the reading order, and then select a speech agent or hide the text from the screen reader.

Make an interactive object accessible

In Adobe Captivate, you can make a button or an interactive object accessible to your learners.

Click Add Interactive Components > Button in the left toolbar to add a button.
Select Accessibility in the right toolbar.
In the Reading Order section, you can add the accessibility text as the button label, and select a speech agent.

If there are multiple buttons, you can reorder the tab order. Enable the toggle Show tab order, and rearrange the buttons.

The change in the reading order for an interactive object doesn’t change its actual position in the Reading Order section. However, a screen reader will read them in the order you've specified with the Show Tab Order toggle enabled.

Make the custom states of an object accessible

In this example, you'll make the poses of a character accessible using the custom states of the character.

Select Add media blocks > Characters and text in the left toolbar. Replace a character with multiple poses. View the document Add characters to your Captivate project to learn more about replacing a character with poses from Assets.
Click View in the Visual Properties panel to launch the States flyout and display the poses as states.

View the poses of a character as states
Select Accessibility in the right toolbar. In the Reading Order section, the object states display in the State dropdown.

Add accessibility texts for object states from the reading order
Select a pose from the dropdown and add its accessibility text.

Add accessibility texts for object states for various poses from the reading order
Repeat the steps to add accessibility text for the other states.