Adobe Captivate 2019
Accessibility Conformance Report published by Adobe
Partial extraction. We read 25 of 31 Level A and 13 of 24 Level AA criteria from this document (69% coverage). The remainder are missing from our extraction, not necessarily from Adobe's report — their table layout defeated our parser. Treat the figures below as incomplete and read the source document for the full picture.
Conformance by level
Reported by the vendor. WCAG Level AA is the benchmark referenced by ADA Title II, Section 508 and the European Accessibility Act; Level AAA is optional and often left unevaluated.
Level A — 25 criteria
- Supports
- 16
- Partially supports
- 8
- Does not support
- 1
- Not applicable
- 0
- Not evaluated
- 0
Level AA — 13 criteria
- Supports
- 11
- Partially supports
- 2
- Does not support
- 0
- Not applicable
- 0
- Not evaluated
- 0
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All reported criteria (85)
| Criterion | Name | Level | Conformance | Remarks from vendor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.1.1 | Non-text Content | A | Partially Supports | Software: Text alternatives are provided for most instances of non-text content, with the following exceptions: The button text stylings provide icons displaying an effect without providing a text equivalent. The Shadow and Reflection buttons provide icons displaying an effect without providing a text equivalent. The bullet text stylings provide icons displaying bullet effects without providing a text equivalent. Authored Content (HTML): The product provides features to both auto label content as well as supply custom accessibility names and descriptions. |
| 1.2.1 | Audio-only and Video-only (Prerecorded) | A | Supports | Software: The product does not provide prerecorded audio-only or video-only content. Authored Content (HTML): When prerecorded audio-only or video-only content is included within Captivate projects, content authors must supply sufficient alternatives. |
| 1.2.2 | Captions (Prerecorded) | A | Supports | Software: The product does not provide prerecorded media that require captions. Authored Content (HTML): Authors can create and edit captions for audio content. |
| 1.2.3 | Audio Description or Media Alternative (Prerecorded) | A | Supports | Software: The product does not provide prerecorded media that would require audio description. Authored Content (HTML): Authors can provide separate audio description tracks for media. |
| 1.3.1 | Info and Relationships | A | Partially Supports | Software: Most user interface elements provide programmatic information about structure and relationships. Exceptions include: The Shadow radio buttons are not programmatically grouped. The Recent and New projects wizard visually renders page tab controls, but this information is not conveyed programmatically. Nested checkboxes within the Preferences dialog do not expose their hierarchical presentation programmatically. Authored Content (HTML): Authors can provide appropriate semantics for content elements, with the following exceptions: Heading and page title styles are created with a role of |
| 1.3.2 | Meaningful Sequence | A | Partially Supports | Software: Exceptions include: The Insert Questions dialog does not provide a meaningful reading order. Authored Content (HTML): Authors can present content in a meaningful sequence. |
| 1.3.3 | Sensory Characteristics | A | Partially Supports | Software: Exceptions include: The Rotate and RotateTo functions provide rotation angles to users, but rely on sight to indicate if rotation is happening clockwise or counterclockwise. Authored Content (HTML): Authors can ensure that content meets this criterion. |
| 1.4.1 | Use of Color | A | Supports | Software: The product does not use color as the sole means of conveying information. Authored Content (HTML): Authors can ensure that content meets this criterion. |
| 1.4.2 | Audio Control | A | Supports | Software: The product does not include audio that plays automatically. Authored Content (HTML): Exported content will automatically play when a page is loaded. Controls to play and pause content, as well as mute content, are provided. |
| 2.1.1 | Keyboard | A | Does Not Support | Software: Most product functionality cannot be operated through a keyboard interface. Examples include: Keyboard users do not have consistent methods to move between panels in the product. A mouse is required to adjust the position of slides within the filmstrip, or items in the timeline. Authored Content (HTML): Authored content functionality can be operated through a keyboard interface. |
| 2.1.2 | No Keyboard Trap | A | Supports | Software: The product does not include keyboard traps. Authored Content (HTML): The product does not introduce keyboard traps within the HTML output. Authors are responsible to ensure their content meets this criterion. |
| 2.2.1 | Timing Adjustable | A | Supports | Software: The product does not include time limits. Authored Content (HTML): Authors can choose to create content that does not present time limits to users. A feature is provided to supply time limits, in instances where they are essential to the activity. |
| 2.2.2 | Pause, Stop, Hide | A | Supports | Software: Moving, blinking, scrolling, and auto-updating information can be paused, stopped or hidden by the user. Authored Content (HTML): Content provided by the product meets this criterion. Authors can implement content that conforms to this criterion. |
| 2.3.1 | Three Flashes or Below Threshold | A | Supports | Software: The product does not contain flashing content. Authored Content (HTML): Content provided by the product meets this criterion. Authors can implement content that conforms to this criterion. |
| 2.4.1 | Bypass Blocks | A | Supports | Software: This criterion does not apply to non-web documents. Authored Content (HTML): No repeated blocks of content are present within the exported content. |
| 2.4.2 | Page Titled | A | Supports | Software: The product and modal dialogs contain programmatic titles. Authored Content (HTML): The product does not allow authors to specify a page title when content is created. Pages are created without a title. |
| 2.4.3 | Focus Order | A | Partially Supports | Software: Most components receive focus in a meaningful order. Exceptions include: The Insert Questions dialog does not include a meaningful focus order. Authored Content (HTML): Authors can specify the focus order of interactive elements in the Tab Order dialog of the Properties Inspector. |
| 2.4.4 | Link Purpose (In Context) | A | Supports | Software: The purpose of links within the product can be determined from link text and the link’s context. Authored Content (HTML): Authors can ensure that content meets this criterion. |
| 3.1.1 | Language of Page | A | Supports | Software: The language is programmatically determinable within the product. The language of the product is set based on the version installed by the user. Authored Content (HTML): For content in frequently used languages, authors can set the language for content. Exceptions include: Authors can only identify the language of web pages in German, English, Spanish, French, Japanese, and Portuguese. |
| 3.2.1 | On Focus | A | Supports | Software: The product does not initiate a change of context when components receive focus. Authored Content (HTML): Authors can design forms that do not initiate a change of context when components receive focus. |
| 3.2.2 | On Input | A | Supports | Software: The product does not initiate a change of context when a setting of a user interface component is changed. Authored Content (HTML): Authors can design content so that changing a user interface component’s setting does not automatically cause a change of context. |
| 3.3.1 | Error Identification | A | Partially Supports | Software: Most input errors are identified and described to users in text. Exceptions include: The Frames Per Second field automatically adjusts values to conform with an unspecified maximum and minimum, without alerting users. Authored Content (HTML): Input errors are detected when user submit quiz questions. Feedback is automatically provided regarding if a question was answered correctly or not. |
| 3.3.2 | Labels or Instructions | A | Partially Supports | Software: Exceptions include: The Effects Type dropdown contains no label or instructional text. Authored Content (HTML): Authors can ensure that content meets this criterion. |
| 4.1.1 | Parsing | A | Supports | Software: The software is not implemented using markup languages. Authored Content (HTML): Authored content contains appropriate start and end tags, unique ID values, and elements nested according to the HTML specification. |
| 4.1.2 | Name, Role, Value | A | Partially Supports | Software: Exceptions include: Most of the buttons within the Toolbar, such as Text, Shapes, and Objects, do not contain appropriate programmatic names. The Timeline slider does not contain appropriate role information. Authored Content (HTML): Exceptions include: The playbar slider does not contain appropriate state information. |
| 1.2.4 | Captions (Live) | AA | Supports | Software: The product does not provide live media that requires captions. Authored Content (HTML): The product does not include the ability to present live media. |
| 1.2.5 | Audio Description (Prerecorded) | AA | Supports | Software: The product does not provide prerecorded video content that would require audio description. Authored Content (HTML): Authors can provide separate audio description tracks for media. |
| 1.4.3 | Contrast (Minimum) | AA | Partially Supports | Software: Most text meets minimum contrast requirements. Exceptions include: The page tabs that are not currently selected within the Slide Audio modal dialogs are presented in dark gray on a gray background. Links within the Preferences dialog contain insufficient color contrast. Authored Content (HTML): The default player control templates contain sufficient color contrast. Additionally, authors can create slide content that contains sufficient color contrast ratios. |
| 1.4.4 | Resize text | AA | Supports | Software: The product supports native platform settings for magnifying displayed content. Authored Content (HTML): Authored content and player controls respond to browser magnification up to 200% without loss of information. |
| 1.4.5 | Images of Text | AA | Supports | Software: The product uses text instead of images of text. Authored Content (HTML): All text content in slides is presented as images of text. |
| 2.4.5 | Multiple Ways | AA | Supports | Software: This criterion does not apply to non-web software. Authored Content (HTML): The product does not create a set of web pages that would require multiple ways to locate a page. |
| 2.4.6 | Headings and Labels | AA | Supports | Software: Headings and labels are descriptive. Authored Content (HTML): Authors can ensure that content meets this criterion by providing headings and labels to describe content and identify user inputs. |
| 2.4.7 | Focus Visible | AA | Partially Supports | Software: The keyboard focus indicator is generally visible. Exceptions include: Buttons within the Advanced Actions and Variables windows do not have visible focus indicators. Authored Content (HTML): The media player provides visual indication of keyboard focus; however, the product does not allow authors to provide visual indication of keyboard focus on elements, such as links and buttons. |
| 3.1.2 | Language of Parts | AA | Supports | Software: Content is only presented in one language at a time. Authored Content (HTML): For frequently used languages, authors can set the language of individual phrases. Exceptions include: Authors can only identify the language of phrases in German, English, Spanish, French, Japanese, and Portuguese. |
| 3.2.3 | Consistent Navigation | AA | Supports | Software: This criterion does not apply to non-web software. Authored Content (HTML): Authored content does not contain a navigational mechanism that is repeated on multiple web pages. |
| 3.2.4 | Consistent Identification | AA | Supports | Software: This criterion does not apply to non-web software. Authored Content (HTML): The product does not create a set of web pages that would require consistent identification of components. |
| 3.3.3 | Error Suggestion | AA | Supports | Software: The product does not contain instances where automatically detected errors have known suggestions. For example, when the product detects an invalid location for file export, it is not possible to provide specific suggestions for correction. Authored Content (HTML): Authors can provide customized messages when users submit incorrect answers to questions. |
| 3.3.4 | Error Prevention (Legal, Financial, Data) | AA | Supports | Software: The product does not process legal commitments or financial transactions. Changes to user-controllable data can be confirmed before finalizing. Authored Content (HTML): Authored content does not contain legal or financial data and does not modify user-controllable data. |
| 502.2.1 | User Control of Accessibility Features | - | Not Applicable | The product is not platform software. |
| 502.2.2 | No Disruption of Accessibility Features | - | Partially Supports | The product does not disrupt most platform accessibility features. Exceptions include: The product does not support Windows High Contrast mode. |
| 502.3.1 | Object Information | - | Partially Supports | The product exposes most name, role, state, boundary, and description information of objects to assistive technology. However, as noted in 4.1.2 Name, Role, Value . Exceptions include: Most of the buttons within the Toolbar, such as Text, Shapes, and Objects, do not contain appropriate programmatic names. |
| 502.3.2 | Modification of Object Information | - | Supports | The product allows assistive technology to modify states and properties of controls. |
| 502.3.3 | Row, Column, and Headers | - | Not Applicable | The product does not use data tables. |
| 502.3.4 | Values | - | Partially Supports | The product exposes the values and range of allowable values of most controls; however, as noted in 3.3.1 Error Identification , some fields contain maximum values that are not exposed to users. |
| 502.3.5 | Modification of Values | - | Supports | The product allows assistive technology to modify values of controls. |
| 502.3.6 | Label Relationships | - | Partially Supports | The product exposes most label relationships to assistive technology. Exceptions include: Label relationships as noted in 1.3.1 Info and Relationships . |
| 502.3.7 | Hierarchical Relationships | - | Partially Supports | The product exposes most hierarchical parent-child relationships to assistive technology. Exceptions include: Hierarchical relationships as noted in 1.3.1 Info and Relationships . |
| 502.3.8 | Text | - | Supports | The product exposes text content to assistive technology. |
| 502.3.9 | Modification of Text | - | Supports | The product allows assistive technology to modify text. |
| 502.3.10 | List of Actions | - | Partially Supports | Most controls in the product expose programmatic role information and actions which can be taken on objects to assistive technology. Exceptions include: Slides within the filmstrip provide role information, but do not announce the additional actions available through activating a context menu. Most controls within the timeline have multiple available actions, but do not expose these actions to users. |
| 502.3.11 | Actions on Objects | - | Partially Supports | The product allows assistive technology to perform most actions on objects. Exceptions include: Accessing context menu actions for slides in the filmstrip. Adjusting the Timeline slider position. |
| 502.3.12 | Focus Cursor | - | Partially Supports | The product exposes focus, text insertion point, and text selection to assistive technology for most controls. Exceptions include: Some controls lack visible focus indication, as noted in 2.4.7 Focus Visible . |
| 502.3.13 | Modification of Focus Cursor | - | Does Not Support | The product allows assistive technology to move focus within an individual panel; however, navigating between panels and windows cannot be accomplished consistently. |
| 502.3.14 | Event Notification | - | Partially Supports | The product notifies assistive technology of most user interaction events. Exceptions include: Changes in preferences state may occur due to selection of related preferences. These events are not announced to users. |
| 503.4.1 | Caption Controls | - | Supports | The product provides user controls for closed captions. |
| 503.4.2 | Audio Description Controls | - | Not Applicable | The product does not provide controls for program selection. |
| 504.2.1 | Preservation of Information Provided for Accessibility in Format Conversion | - | Supports | When converting content, the product preserves the accessibility information of the source formats. |
| 504.2.2 | PDF Export | - | Not Applicable | The product does not create PDF files. |
| 4.2.1 | Usage without vision | - | Does Not Support | Software: Users without vision will face difficulties with most functions of the product. Examples include: The inability to move between panels within the application from the keyboard. Not all components contain programmatic labels. The product contains images without text alternatives for displaying visual effects. Authored Content (HTML): Most functions of the product will be usable without vision. Exceptions include: The playbar slider contains inappropriate state information, which may make it difficult to interact with when using a screen reader. As noted in 1.3.1 Info and Relationships |
| 4.2.2 | Usage with limited vision | - | Partially Supports | Software: Users with limited vision will be able to interact with most of the product. Exceptions include: As noted in 1.4.3 Contrast , some content contains insufficient color contrast. Users of screen magnification software who navigate through the keyboard will not be able to interact with all content. Authored Content (HTML): Users with limited vision will be able to interact with most authored content. Exceptions include: As noted in 1.4.5 Images of Text , the product renders text content as images. This prevents users from adjusting text properties such as color and font size. |
| 4.2.3 | Usage without perception of colour | - | Supports | Software: The product does not rely solely on color to communicate information. Authored Content (HTML): Authors can create content which is functional for users without perception of color. |
| 4.2.4 | Usage without hearing | - | Supports | Software: The product does not provide any information through audio that is not made available textually. Authored Content (HTML): Authors can create content which is functional for users without hearing. |
| 4.2.5 | Usage with limited hearing | - | Supports | Software: The product does not provide any information through audio that is not made available textually. Authored Content (HTML): Authors can create content which is functional for users with limited hearing. |
| 4.2.6 | Usage without vocal capability | - | Supports | Software: The product does not require speech for use. Authored Content (HTML): Authors can create content which is functional for users without speech. |
| 4.2.7 | Usage with limited manipulation or strength | - | Partially Supports | Software: Most of the product is functional with limited manipulation and strength. Exceptions include: Keyboard users do not have consistent methods to move between panels in the product. A mouse is required to adjust the position of slides within the filmstrip, or items in the timeline. Authored Content (HTML): Authors can create content which is functional with limited manipulation and strength. |
| 4.2.8 | Usage with limited reach triggers | - | Supports | Software: The product is functional with limited reach. Authored Content (HTML): Authors can create content which is functional with limited reach. |
| 4.2.9 | Minimize photosensitive seizure | - | Supports | Software: The product does not contain flashing content. Authored Content (HTML): Authors can create content which does not flash, or flashes within an acceptable threshold, in order to minimize the potential for triggering photosensitive seizures. |
| 4.2.10 | Usage with limited cognition | - | Supports | Software: Users with cognitive disabilities have varying needs for features that allow them to adapt content and work with assistive technology or accessibility features of the platform. The product provides icons in combination with words for many buttons. Additionally, the user interface can be customized to display more or less content, depending on the needs of the user. Authored Content (HTML): Authors can create content which is functional for users with limited language, cognitive, and learning abilities. |
| 4.2.11 | Privacy | - | Supports | Software: The product does not ask for legal, financial, or personal data. Authored Content (HTML): Authored content does not ask for legal, financial, or personal data. |
| 5.5.1 | Means of operation | - | Not Applicable | The product does not have operable parts. |
| 5.5.2 | Operable parts discernibility | - | Not Applicable | The product does not have operable parts. |
| 5.6.1 | Tactile or auditory status | - | Not Applicable | The product does not have locking or toggle controls. |
| 5.6.2 | Visual status | - | Not Applicable | The product does not have locking or toggle controls. |
| 7.1.1 | Captioning playback | - | Supports | The product provides caption playback. |
| 7.1.2 | Captioning synchronization | - | Supports | Authors can ensure captions and audio are synchronized. |
| 7.1.3 | Preservation of captioning | - | Supports | The product preserves caption data when recording video. |
| 7.2.1 | Audio description playback | - | Does Not Support | The product does not provide a separate mechanism for audio description, and a user cannot select separate audio tracks. |
| 7.2.2 | Audio description synchronization | - | Not Applicable | The product does not have a mechanism to play audio description. |
| 7.2.3 | Preservation of audio description | - | Supports | The product preserves audio description data when recording video. |
| 11.2.2 | Software success criteria (closed functionality) | - | Not Applicable | The product does not contain closed functionality. |
| 11.4.1 | User control of accessibility features | - | Not Applicable | The product is not platform software. |
| 11.4.2 | No disruption of accessibility features | - | Partially Supports | Most product functions do not disrupt accessibility features. Exceptions include: The product does not respect Windows High Contrast mode. |
| 11.6.3 | Preservation of accessibility information in transformations | - | Not Applicable | The product does not provide restructuring transformations or re-coding transformations. |
| 11.6.4 | Repair assistance | - | Not Applicable | The product does not have accessibility checking functionality. |
| 11.6.5 | Templates | - | Does Not Support | Templates in the product do not allow authors to create content which conforms to WCAG 2.0 Levels A and AA. |
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