Captions and Slide Notes - Adobe Captivate 9

Rod;

Could not agree more - simply reading the text already present is not advantageous to any learners. I've been to too many "death by PowerPoint" presentations in person to want to participate in any more of them online. Accessible design does not, and should not, diminish the overall interactivity and effectiveness of an online project.

That said, the problem is the lack of understanding regarding adult learning theory, design efficacy, and what accessibility really means among those charged with developing or meeting the policies that create legal mandates regarding training and accessibility. There are uninformed policies and mandates that block effective techniques and restrict developers. I can get paid and maintain my standard of living by creating "GIGO" (garbage in - garbage out) projects that meet all these poorly designed and rigidly implemented guidelines for the client who cares only about protecting itself from possible lawsuits with only a minimal interest in whether or not there's any value added by the training. While I maintain an income stream, I can also pursue more engaging and challenging projects I can then use to try and "move the needle" with my less involved and interested clients - showing them examples of best practices that also meet their baseline need to not get sued and simply present mandatory information to their employees or intended audience. If I don't engage, I don't get a chance to make a difference, even incrementally, downstream, right?

Why do you need to put already visible text into close captions? Unless you have an inflexible requirement that states all audio files must be close captioned, this is not something that needs to be done to make the course accessible - in fact, it could create a more cluttered and distracting environment. Your text captions are visible to a hearing impaired learner (the reason you need close captioning).  If your audio is a voice reading exactly what is on the screen, you don't need close captioning because there is no content presented there that is not visible on the screen. If you want to sync up emphasis with your audio, use a highlight box or some other graphic to emphasize each section as it is being read, or fade in each caption as it's read to meet accessibility requirements. Check with your accessibility certification shop on this one, but it's basically overkill and duplication of effort.

No, I'm sorry. You can copy the text from the captions to slide notes. and check the CC option for those notes. There is no automatic way.