Need an easy way to edit the visual elements of question and answer slides
In Captivate 13.0, the UI lets you change fonts, colors, and other elements associated with question and answer slides. However, when you preview or publish, these adjustments are overridden by the CSS in the pre-defined Design Options. You can spend a lot of time making design adjustments that don't do anything.
While there appears to be a tech support article regarding editing the Design Option CSS and JSON files, we should not have to work at that level to simply make a visual change.
Also, many of the Design Options do not meet WCAG standards for contrast and accessibility, including light brown checkmarks on on tan background, or green text on a darker green background.
https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/
Recommendations and request:
- Allow direct changes to question and answer slide design elements through the Captivate UI.
- Allow the user to "Save as...." those changes to Design Options to easily create new and persistent variations on Design Options without dropping to text editing of JSON and CSS files.
Jeff McKune
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Jeff McKune
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Mayank,
Thanks for your note. Just choosing three of the five available Design Options for question slides (I did not take the time to test them all), all three have visual elements which fail the WCAG standards for contrast and readability. Please see the attached PDF which has screen shots from Captivate 13.0 showing the Design Option chosen, the visual elements in question, and the resulting WCAG Fail reports. Either the text is unreadable due to low contrast, the checkmarks are hardly visible due to low contrast, or both.
If we had the ability to make changes to the Design Options with the Captivate UI, instead of manipulating JSON and CSS files, such that we could "Save as...." a new Design Option, we could correct this ourselves.
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Hi Jeff,
Can you share the screenshot of the issue you described regarding discrepancies related to Fonts, colors etc? Please share the screenshot in Captivate vs Preview as I am unable to reproduce it.
