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Interactivity Leader Raptivity Announces Support for Section 508 Guidelines

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New Release 5.6 Enhances Essential Pack Interactions, Supports Videos Among Other Media Types

Raptivity from Habinger Knowledge Products
Raptivity from Habinger Knowledge Products 

Harbinger Knowledge Products has recently revamped Raptivity learning interactions for supporting Section 508 guidelines. Raptivity, the award-winning eLearning software, allows trainers, educators and subject matter experts to create learning interactions quickly and easily.

The new release 5.6 provides accessibility support for all the interactions in Raptivity Essential Pack. Now the users buying the Raptivity software will get a set of 35 interactions which provide support according to Section 508 compliance guidelines. Apart from this, the new release also includes support for videos along with text and other media types such as pictures and audio for the interactions in Raptivity Essential Pack.

"It's a tough task to follow the long list of guidelines for making eLearning courses Section 508 compliant. When it comes to visually appealing and meaningful interactions, the task is even harder. Raptivity has yet again proved its leadership in the area of interactivity by offering pre-built interactions which are compliant with Section 508 guidelines. Thousands of eLearning designers worldwide, especially those in the federal government agencies, will surely find this very useful", said Seema Chaudhary, President, Harbinger Knowledge Products, Inc.

About Raptivity

With Raptivity, users can create interactivity rapidly and add it conveniently to their eLearning content. With interactive content, learning experiences become memorable and drop-out levels go down.

Raptivity provides a pre-built library of rapidly-customizable interaction models. These interaction models are based on best practices in instructional design. Users can customize them to create any number of variations. The content published by Raptivity is a single flash file so it fits right into hundreds of eLearning tools and can be used anywhere. With its patent-pending technology and open architecture, Raptivity is at the forefront of rapid interactivity technology.

In 2007, Raptivity was winner of the eLearning Guild Platinum Award for highest user satisfaction in Simulation tools category. Raptivity also won the Gold Award under Games tools category.

Raptivity was voted number one in two categories: Time to proficiency and Complex practice and assessment interaction building, according to a global survey by eLearning Guild. Another Guild survey ranked Raptivity number one in ease of use and integration with e-Learning tools.

Raptivity also won the prestigious Technology & Learning's 2007 Award of Excellence, adjudged by a panel of eminent educators in San Francisco.

For more information on Raptivity, visit http://www.raptivity.com.