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Guide to Cable Providers and Streaming Services for People With Disabilities

This guide outlines cable, satellite, and streaming TV accessibility. It covers companies such as DirecTV, Spectrum, Netflix, and Amazon Prime. Last but not least, it touches on automated live captions to make ads, news, sports, and user-generated content more accessible.

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DCMP Awarded Federal Grants for Making Educational Media and Television Content Accessible to Persons With Disabilities

The Described and Captioned Media Program (DCMP), a leader in developing and providing accessible media, has been awarded two five-year federal grants by the U.S. Department of Education. DCMP will continue its mission of making educational videos accessible to children with disabilities and expand into broadcast television content. The grants were awarded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education and total $13.3 million.

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First Educational Series Utilizing YouTube’s New Native Audio Description Support

SPARTANBURG, SC, August 6, 2021 – The Described and Captioned Media Program (DCMP) is excited to announce the debut of Emily Graslie’s “Art Lab,” the first educational video series on YouTube to feature audio description through a new pilot program. Audio description is a secondary audio track with additional narration that describes vital visual information for people who are blind and visually impaired.

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Accessible Videos and Teacher Tools for Teachers Who Have Students With Disabilities

Families and educators who have at least one student with a disability can sign up for free membership to gain access to DCMP's accessible educational resources. DCMP has thousands of videos with captions and audio description (and many in ASL) and teacher tools for building lessons. Lessons can include clips you make from DCMP videos and materials that you create at myASLTech. Educators can use DCMP's accessible videos for all their students, online and in the classroom, ensuring an equitable learning experience. There are no charges for membership or any of DCMP's services.

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Pepnet 2

Pepnet 2 (pn2) was a federally-funded project to increase the education, career, and lifetime choices available to individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing. Funding for the project ended in 2016. However, many of the resources created by this project are still available through DCMP.

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Using myASLTech with Clips and Lessons

myASLTech, a unique suite of assistive technology tools for creating educational materials, offers a membership discount through DCMP. If you're a DCMP member, you can import educational materials created with myASLTech into DCMP's Clips and Lessons.

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Interactive Transcripts for Captions and Description

DCMP videos include transcripts of the caption and description files. Interactive Transcripts scroll "live" as the video plays, with words highlighted in yellow as they are captioned or spoken so that students can follow along. Interactive Transcripts are accessible by screen readers.

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ASL Pop-up Player

DCMP members often request the addition of American Sign Language interpretation as an accessibility feature. To this end, we're excited to present the ASL Pop-up! Select videos now include ASL interpretation through a pop-up window.

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Clips and Lessons

Clips and Lessons allow you to select portions of DCMP videos, create clips, and then use those clips as stand-alone videos or as part of a Lesson. A Lesson can include clips, full videos, quizzes, text, and user-submitted files.

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How to Share a DCMP Video in Zoom

Teachers can use video conferencing apps like Zoom to share DCMP videos with students. Sharing DCMP videos in Zoom appears to work fine on Apple computers, but some Zoom users report issues with Windows. While we recommend creating Student Accounts for reliability, we have found a solution that may work if you are using the Chrome browser in Windows.

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QuickClasses

QuickClasses are facilitated, asynchronous, online classes for professionals working with students who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind, low-vision, or deaf-blind. They are approved for RID (Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf) CEUs, ACVREP (Academy for Certification of Vision Rehabilitation & Education Professionals) credit, and general professional development credit. They are free to our members.

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Access: Description Module Student Edition

Access: Description Module Student Edition is an overview of description and why it is essential to providing access for individuals who are blind or have low vision. Students will learn what makes up high-quality description and what they should expect from description. They’ll learn about the history of description and what laws promise them equal access to media. The module contains interactive components to engage students as they learn.

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Access: Description Module

Access: Description Module is an overview of description and why it is essential to providing access for individuals who are blind or have low vision. The module reviews guidelines for description, discusses laws pertaining to description, and explains the unique requirements for educational description. Many examples of description are included.

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RCAA Dr Seuss Videos With Captions

DCMP offers several captioned Dr. Seuss videos for your Read Captions Across America event. Members can use the videos in the classroom or assign to students via Student Accounts. Videos can also be embedded and/or shared with students via conferencing apps like Zoom.

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How to Embed DCMP Videos

DCMP videos can be embedded in any secure web page or learning management system (LMS) that accepts HTML embed code and has a valid TLS/SSL certificate. If you see a "padlock" symbol in the address bar while using your website/LMS, this indicates the site is secure, and should work with DCMP video embeds.

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Guide to Cable Providers and Streaming Services for People With Disabilities

DCMP Awarded Federal Grants for Making Educational Media and Television Content Accessible to Persons With Disabilities

First Educational Series Utilizing YouTube’s New Native Audio Description Support

Accessible Videos and Teacher Tools for Teachers Who Have Students With Disabilities

Pepnet 2

Using myASLTech with Clips and Lessons

Interactive Transcripts for Captions and Description

ASL Pop-up Player

Clips and Lessons

How to Share a DCMP Video in Zoom

QuickClasses

Access: Description Module Student Edition

Access: Description Module

RCAA Dr Seuss Videos With Captions

How to Embed DCMP Videos