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ADA Compliancy
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a federal anti-discrimination statute designed to ensure equal
access to opportunities and benefits for qualified individuals with disabilities. The act seeks to remove barriers
preventing qualified people with disabilities from enjoying the same opportunities enjoyed by those without dis-
abilities.
Captions allow persons with hearing disabilities to have access to videos by displaying the audio portion of
the video as text on the screen.
In many state, government, or education institutions, videos must include ADA compliant captions. Camtasia
Studio helps you adhere to these standards by providing an ADA compliant captioning feature.
ADA compliant captions:
Are one to three lines of text that appear on-screen all at once, stay there for a few seconds, and are
replaced by another caption or no caption
Are timed to synchronize with the audio
Should not cover up graphics and other essential visual elements of the picture
Require the use of upper and lowercase letters
Must use a font similar to Helvetica medium
Must have good resolution
Fit the requested 32 characters to a line
See this Wikipedia article for more information.
Camtasia Studio and ADA Compliant Captions
By default, new captions are added using ADA compliant font settings. When the ADA Compliant but-
ton is blue, ADA Compliancy mode is on .
If a font attribute is selected that is not ADA compliant, the ADA Compliant button grays out and a tip
alerts you that you are out of compliancy.
Restore ADA Compliancy
To restore ADA compliancy to the captions, click the ADA compliant button.
This is a global setting. All captions return to ADA compliancy and all other formatting is removed.
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