Video captioning and Captivate

Hello guys,
I thought I could caption embedded video clips with Captivate
but the feature only applies to captioning the audio slides. Our
presentations will have video clips and because of 508 compliance,
we need to caption them. We also need a video player that is
accessible. Supposedly, JW Player is the most accessible.
So, my question is, has anyone had to display embedded
captioned movie clips inside Captivate And instead of using
Captivate player skin, using the JW player instead? I am new to
Captivate and don't know how to do this.
Thanks

I just looked at the JW Player website and from what I can
see it uses flashvars and javascript in order to work properly.
In it's current form I don't think it would be possible to
integrate JW Player in your Captivate projects. Since the code is
open source it would be possible to customize the JW Player to work
in Captivate, but that requires codingskills in Flash.

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