I probably won’t be posting much on Captivate going forward. Since I left Adobe I haven’t had the opportunity to stay current on the software.

Some advice I can give you on accessability and flash content in general though…

Flash by default is meant to be a rich VISUAL experience, and in almost any output that uses Flash content the user experience for visually impared users is going to be very poor. Depending on what content you are producing, one option to make a better user experience for visually impared customers is taking your Captivate file and publishing it to Word, then adding a description of the screens in the Word document and distribute that to 508 users as an alternative.

I am not a 508 expert but my understanding is that you can achieve 508 by providing an alternative that is 508 compatible. So the logic would be that you would create a Captivate demo, and provide a link to other 508 users for the published word document.

Thanks for the great blog on the live presentor, this will be valuable to use for the on-line courses that we do!
Thanks again

Unfortunately what you are looking for is not possible. Flash has a 16,000 frame limit, so if you tried to bundle an AP presentation in one single SWF your max presentation size could only be about 9 minutes.

I’ve already asked Articulate support about this, but the response I got wasn’t helping much. I really like the output and ways to customize the interface, but my problem is that I need one (or very few) SWF file(s) instead of the chunk of files that Articulate generates. If that req can’t be met, it’s a no-go, which would be a shame. Any idea? Compiling into an EXE was the suggestion from support, but that didn’t sound too appealing … thanks.

Actually I am not too sure. I haven’t worked with Moodle much since 1.5. I tried upgrading to 1.6 at one point and it didn’t work, and I could never get moodle running with my hosting provider (Dreamhosts) with any version of moodle.

You might do a search on the moodle forums and see if anyone has any recommendations for hosting providers that moodle works with.

Sorry I can’t be of more assistance on this one.

Sorry about the delete, i had a typo on that one…

Wonder if you could help me out here. I have been trying to unsuccessfully put an articulate presenter SCORM output to work in moodle 1.8 hosted on godaddy. Not sure what the problem is – i have provided the url below – it appears to be a situation where moodle is not able to find the location of the flash file and therefore is throwing this blank page – could this be similiar to the query posted on the moodle forum http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=41568 ?

The weblink of the error is http://www.shantipark.com/ibe/mod/scorm/player.php?a=1¤torg=Merchant_Acquiring_Business_ORG&scoid=2

Or should i try to change the webhosting provider – maybe it is a godaddy issue…

Thanks for your time,

You will want to copy all the files that are published to your ouput folder. If you go to Articulate>Publish>Web you should see the publish location listed. The folder you want to copy to your website is going to be the same name as your ‘Published Title’ also listed in this same dialg.

Also, I would recommend using the ‘Launch Presentation in new window’ option in the Player Template builder. This will create a launch page which should give you the code for creating a launch button. Also, I would suggest turning on the option to ‘Display window with no browser controls’. This will ensure that the player will launch at the optimal size.

Dumb question, I know, but I used/am using Dreamweaver to build my website: http://www.professionalservicespr.com. I want visitors to launch an Articulate presentation from my home page by clicking a flash button.

I’ve created the presentation and published it to my hard drive using the web option. Can you tell me which files I copy into a dreamweaver flash folder, please? There are flash files for each slide, a player, etc.

Thanks!

File Size

and:

Blog post

Those should get you through the basics of how to avoid the problem with file dimensions being to large for the PPT slide size with Captivate.