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Guidelines and Best Practices for Describing Educational Video
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Description Key
These guidelines are a key for vendors who perform description for the DCMP. The information is also applicable to anyone providing audio description of all types of media at verious levels.
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Captioning Key
DCMP also provides guidelines for captioning educational video in our Captioning Key.
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Welcome to the Description Key
Description is the key to opening a world of information for persons with a vision loss, literacy needs, or loss of cognitive abilities. The American Foundation for the Blind reports that 21.5 million adults have vision loss and 94,000 children with a vision loss are being helped by some kind of special education. While description was developed...Read More
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Description Key - Preparation
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Description Key - What to Describe
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Description Key - How to Describe
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Description Key - Technical Issues