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How to Access Audio Description on Your TV and Through DCMP

Television, movies, and videos are made accessible to people who are blind or visually impaired through the addition of audio description. Audio description is a secondary audio track with additional narration that describes important visual information in a video. It can be accessed in a number of ways, including through your TV remote through a button or voice controls. Instructions specific to many television providers and television sets can be found at the following link on the Audio Description Project (ADP) website:
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DCMP Awarded Federal Grants for Making Educational Media and Television Content Accessible to Persons With Disabilities

August 17, 2021
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Converting YouTube SBV Subtitles to SubRip SRT Format

One of the most intriguing CIY-related developments in captioning has been Google’s automatic accessibility features for YouTube channels. Most of the buzz surrounded the auto-caption feature; based upon the speech-to-text engine that powers Google Voice, auto-caption allows individual viewers to access a machine-generated transcription of a video’s speech content, which is then automatically synchronized with the video’s sound track and displayed as individual captions. However, it is the auto-sync feature that figures to be—at least in the short term—a real game-changer for serious CIYers.
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Media for Purchase

If the DCMP does not have an item you need, or if you'd like to purchase something the DCMP has in the collection, you may search our database of accessible educational media available for purchase from educational producers/distributors.
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Finding Deaf Herstory and History: Resources for the Classroom

A few years ago, the great-great-granddaughter of the Deaf pioneer and National Association of the Deaf (NAD) supporter, Edmund Booth, told me a story about her great-niece learning about the California Gold Rush in her social studies class. The young girl excitedly shared the fact that she was a descendant of a "Forty-Niner," but her classmates and her teacher did not believe her. She called her dad and asked him to bring the book Edmund Booth, Deaf Pioneer when he picked her up that day. During a subsequent "show-and-tell" activity, she was thrilled to use the book to explain about her proud heritage that included Edmund Booth and his wife Mary Ann Walworth Booth, both Deaf.
From Harry Lang about consumers, history
Going Pro: Using YouDescribe in the Classroom and Beyond

This 60-minute webinar, the fourth in a series, features a live panel discussion about how YouDescribe, a tool anyone can use to add description to YouTube videos, is being used to provide access to content beyond the K-12 classroom.
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YouDescribe – How You Can Add Audio Description to Any YouTube Video!

This an archive video of the Video Description Research and Development Center webinar #3 - YouDescribe – How You Can Add Audio Description to Any YouTube Video!. The webinar occurred May 30, 2013. Learn about YouDescribe, the exciting new tool developed by the Video Description Research and Development Center (VDRDC). YouDescribe is a free tool that anyone can use to add description to YouTube videos. YouDescribe includes everything needed to create description; all you need to provide is a microphone. In addition, YouDescribe has a free embeddable player which can be used to include described videos on your own site.
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Captioning Timeline Highlights

Reviews major events in the history of captioning
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Who are the Bright Spots in Your Community?

Raise the topic of child maltreatment and a common response is often "Oh, that is just too horrible to think about, I'd rather discuss something else." I usually respond, "Yes, it is a tough topic, but the less we discuss it, the more likely children with disabilities are to experience it."
From Harold Johnson about consumers
Plenty to Worry About: Children and Stress

The Health Resource Network has designated April as Stress Awareness Month. During this 30-day period, health-care professionals and health-promotion experts across the country join forces to increase public awareness about both the causes and cures for our modern stress epidemic. These experts teach that stress has many causes and affects people of all ages, from all walks of life.
From Jennifer DeGeorge about consumers, parents
Child Abuse and Neglect: CA/N

Stories of child abuse and neglect (CA/N) represent a horrific reality that is difficult to comprehend, much less accept. Unfortunately, such difficulty does not stop people like the Wisconsin "Predator Priest" from abusing over 200 boys at the St. John's School for the Deaf. In reality, the best available research indicates that CA/N is experienced by children with disabilities at a rate that is three times that experienced by their nondisabled peers (Sullivan & Knutson, 2000). CA/N destroys lives, devastates families, and damages organizations.
From Harold Johnson about consumers
Described Movies at Local Theaters

If you're the movie-watching type, you know that you get to enjoy great films the way they were meant to be enjoyed: on the big screen. Watching a movie in a theater allows you to enjoy technically illustrative audio and be mesmerized by bigger-than-life visuals. It allows you to fully empathize with the characters, lose yourself in the dialogue, and fully engage with and follow the plot. But what if you couldn't see? You couldn't be mesmerized by these visuals. You wouldn't be able to empathize with the characters as well if you couldn't decipher what they looked like, especially if a character has a particularly important feature used to identify and differentiate him/her from others. Could you differentiate between voices? Would you be able to follow the plot as well as if you had sight?
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Hear Me

A worldwide epidemic affecting the young is among us, and it is called child abuse and neglect.
From C. Paige Brooks about consumers
A Deaf Heritage Celebration

Gary E. Wait describes the American School for the Deaf museum’s collection of essays and letters reflecting the social and cultural life of the Deaf community, as well as documentation related to the origin of Captioned Films for the Deaf.
From Gary E. Wait about consumers, history
Read Captions Across America

The National Education Association (NEA) annually sponsors an event called Read Across America. Originally created as a one-day celebration of reading on March 2, Dr. Seuss's birthday, the activity has grown into a nationwide initiative that promotes reading every day of the year. The result has been a focus of the country's attention on how important it is to motivate children to read, in addition to helping them master basic skills.
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How to Access Audio Description on Your TV and Through DCMP

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

Converting YouTube SBV Subtitles to SubRip SRT Format

Media for Purchase

Finding Deaf Herstory and History: Resources for the Classroom

Going Pro: Using YouDescribe in the Classroom and Beyond

YouDescribe – How You Can Add Audio Description to Any YouTube Video!

Captioning Timeline Highlights

Who are the Bright Spots in Your Community?

Plenty to Worry About: Children and Stress

Child Abuse and Neglect: CA/N

Described Movies at Local Theaters

Hear Me

A Deaf Heritage Celebration

Read Captions Across America