It seems the project description, accessed in Captivate 3 by either by Project menu -->Skin --> Info or the Edit menu --> Preferences - General is only intended to be rendered by adaptive software. Here is what the Captivate 3 user guide states:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Captivate/3.0/captivate_3_help.pdf

"if you select the 508 option and you have filled in the project name and
project description text boxes in the Project Properties dialog box, a screen reader will read the name and
description when the Adobe Captivate SWF file is played".

Also from the user guide:
"All playback control styles contain an information button. When your users click this button, they receive project
information such as author, company name, and website address. You can add or change this information through
the Skin Editor dialog box. It is important to set global preferences if you are creating a 508-compliant accessible
project."

You can re-appropriate some of the other fields (author, copyright, etc.) to add a brief description instead, but you are limited to a certain number of characters. You might consider adding the description to one of the first several slides in the project itself, if it is that important to you.

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Gerry:

Check our FAQ section of the wiki (http://ants.wetpaint.com/page/FAQ/ ) The question comes up periodically, so we have our answer there.

In addition, we have been creating database tutorials for some time now and vendors have never complained. I explain why in the FAQ.

If you are interested in creating database tutorials we would love to see your content at this site. It is possible to create database tutorials that suit your local needs and ANTS needs. It just means omiting local information (screenshots of your library home pages for example, and not including link resolver screen shots.) If you are using Camtasia, RIchard Baer talks about how to do this using Camtasia in our Best Practices in Screencasting section (Camtasia uses video as opposed to the more powerpoint- like approach of Captivate and Viewletbuilder... So Richard thought it would be great if Camtasia users were given info about editing video tutorials for local and ANTS use.)

At any rate, I do hope the FAQ section helps answer your initial question! Hopefully we will see some of your creations here soon as well!

Cheers,

Carmen Kazakoff-Lane (Canada)

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