diff --git a/src/dash/DashAdapter.js b/src/dash/DashAdapter.js
index 262193445e..5618573ef0 100644
--- a/src/dash/DashAdapter.js
+++ b/src/dash/DashAdapter.js
@@ -51,7 +51,8 @@ function DashAdapter() {
         patchManifestModel,
         voPeriods,
         currentMediaInfo,
-        constants;
+        constants,
+        cea608parser;
 
     const context = this.context;
 
@@ -72,6 +73,9 @@ function DashAdapter() {
             constants = config.constants;
         }
 
+        if (config.cea608parser) {
+            cea608parser = config.cea608parser;
+        }
         if (config.errHandler) {
             dashManifestModel.setConfig({ errHandler: config.errHandler });
         }
@@ -1031,6 +1035,9 @@ function DashAdapter() {
         mediaInfo.subSegmentAlignment = dashManifestModel.getSubSegmentAlignment(realAdaptation);
         mediaInfo.viewpoint = dashManifestModel.getViewpointForAdaptation(realAdaptation);
         mediaInfo.accessibility = dashManifestModel.getAccessibilityForAdaptation(realAdaptation);
+        if (mediaInfo.accessibility.filter(function (accessibility) {
+            if (accessibility.schemeIdUri && (accessibility.schemeIdUri.search('cea-608') >= 0) && typeof (cea608parser) !== 'undefined') return true;
+        })[0]) mediaInfo.embeddedCaptions = true;
         mediaInfo.audioChannelConfiguration = dashManifestModel.getAudioChannelConfigurationForAdaptation(realAdaptation);
         if (mediaInfo.audioChannelConfiguration.length === 0 && realAdaptation.Representation && realAdaptation.Representation.length > 0) {
             mediaInfo.audioChannelConfiguration = dashManifestModel.getAudioChannelConfigurationForRepresentation(realAdaptation.Representation[0]);
diff --git a/test/unit/dash.DashAdapter.js b/test/unit/dash.DashAdapter.js
index 0566052020..08b1b93419 100644
--- a/test/unit/dash.DashAdapter.js
+++ b/test/unit/dash.DashAdapter.js
@@ -752,6 +752,8 @@ describe('DashAdapter', function () {
                     expect(mediaInfoArray[0].accessibility[0]).to.be.instanceOf(DescriptorType);
                     expect(mediaInfoArray[0].accessibility[0].schemeIdUri).equals('urn:scte:dash:cc:cea-608:2015');
                     expect(mediaInfoArray[0].accessibility[0].value).equals('CC1=eng;CC3=swe');
+                    expect(mediaInfoArray[0].embeddedCaptions).equals(true);
+
                     expect(mediaInfoArray[1].accessibility.length).equals(0);
                 });