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Control a Captivate SWF using JavaScript: The basics

Note: This post covers Captivate 2 & 3; Captivate 4 introduced new problems for JavaScript interaction. You can avoid the headache of writing your own code by using the free CaptivateController utility, which works with all versions of Captivate. JavaScript can control the playback of Captivate-generated SWFs. I posted some

Send Captivate Quiz Data to JavaScript

Adobe Captivate 3 doesn’t have a built-in mechanism for sending quiz results to JavaScript. Here’s a workaround you may find useful. The plan The basic premise of this workaround is to hijack Captivate’s ’email report’ functionality, replacing the original email-centered JavaScript with new JavaScript. This approach was

Target settles accessibility lawsuit for $6 million

Think accessibility isn’t a big deal, and is only one of those issues “the other guy” has to deal with? So did Target. And now they’ve lost $6,000,000 because of it. In case you hadn’t heard, Target was sued by the National Federation for the

IMS announces new QTI validation service

The IMS Global Learning Consortium announced a new Question and Test Interoperability (QTI) validation service a few weeks ago: IMS Global Learning Consortium Announces Question and Test Interoperability Conformance Community Common Cartridge Alliance will provide community tools for QTI conformance and online product catalog Download pdf (link no longer available)

Link: Opening Up the IMS

Good post from Michael Feldstein at e-Literate: There’s something fundamentally contradictory about open standards being developed behind closed doors. … Over the past 18 months, I have had the privilege of participating in the IMS work on a regular basis. During that time, I have mostly kept my mouth shut

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