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Free Membership - Access to more than just media

Families and school personnel (including those in training) who have at least one student with a disability can sign up for free membership.

Accessible Media

Standards-aligned videos with high-quality captions and audio description.

Teaching Tools

Create lessons and assign videos to managed Student Accounts.

Training Videos

Educator and sign language training videos for school personnel and families.
Learning Center

Find resources for providing equal access in the classroom, making media accessible, and maximizing your use of DCMP's free services.
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Accessibility Information

DCMP's Learning Center provides hundreds of articles on topics such as remote learning, transition, blindness, ASL, topic playlists, and topics for parents.

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Accessibility Guidelines

DCMP offers the only guidelines developed for captioning and describing educational media, used worldwide.
Captioning Key
Description Key

Help Center

Learn how to apply for membership, find and view accessible media, and use DCMP’s teaching tools.
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Continuing Education and Professional Development

DCMP offers several online courses, including many that offer RID and ACVREP credit. Courses for students are also available.
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QuickClasses

Asynchronous, online classes for professionals working with students who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind, low vision, or deaf-blind.

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Workshops

For interpreters, audio describers, parents, and educators working with students who are hard of hearing, low vision, and deaf-blind.
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Modules

Modules are self-paced, online trainings designed for professionals, open to eLearners and full members.
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Students

These self-paced, online learning modules cover the topics of transition, note-taking, and learning about audio description.

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Make your educational content accessible and broadly available.

DCMP can add captions, audio description, and sign language interpretation to your educational videos and E/I programming.
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Accessibility

Captions are essential for viewers who are deaf and hard of hearing, and audio description makes visual content accessible for the blind and visually impaired.

Distribution

DCMP can ensure that your content is always accessible and always available to children with disabilities through our secure streaming platforms.

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DCMP partners with top creators and distributors of educational content. Take a look
About the Described and Captioned Media Program

The DCMP provides services designed to support and improve the academic achievement of students with disabilities. We partner with top educational and television content creators and distributors to make media accessible and available to these students.
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Services

Captioning, audio description, and ASL services

Professional training for school personnel

Distribution of fully accessible streaming media

Projects

Media Center

Television Access

We Describe the World

YouTube Audio Description

Privacy and TOS

Privacy Statement

Terms of Service

Accessibility Policy

Mission and Funding

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Man wearing a hard hat and safety goggles stands in an equipment room, attaching a chain to a metal pipe.

Closeup of a person's hands reaching over a large square of black material on a cutting table.

Man sits at a workstation and types on a keyboard while looking at 2 computer displays.

Man sits at a desk looking down at papers, computer display and keyboard in front of him. Caption. Sometimes I'll send it to them, and they tweet it.

A woman's left hand types on a computer keyboard as she uses a large stylus in her right hand.

Closeup of 2 hands holding and working on a prosthetic metal pole.

Middle-aged man with a beard and glasses looks just off camera like he is in an interview.

Closeup of hands typing on a black desktop keyboard.

Woman wearing a lab coat sits at a computer desk looking at 4 images displayed on the monitor.

Person lying on their back with a second person holding a device that covers their mouth. A valve from the mouth covering leads to a plastic chamber. Caption: My job is to then ventilate, meaning get the bad air out,

Closeup of hands wearing clear disposable gloves placing squares of food in a black container on a stainless steel food preparation table.

Man wearing a collared shirt and necktie holds a letter size notepad in a back-of-house restaurant setting.

Closeup of a person wearing a blue and white striped tee shirt. Person leans forward on table top and holds a pen in writing position in their left hand.

2 women walk and talk down a hallway; 1 wears glasses and a pink suit and beaded necklace, mouth is open in mid-speech. The other woman is smiling, wearing a dark suit with a colorful pink scarf. A man walks behind them.

Modern transport train carrying multiple tanks moves along the tracks. Caption. Female as narrator. Logistics includes the movement of goods.

Dark room with open blinds in the background emitting dim exterior lighting. In the lower left corner of the frame, a computer monitor displays a white background with gray text boxes and black lettering.

Man wearing dark polo shirt looks forward and speaks to camera.

Closeup of 2 side-by-side black and white sonogram images of the heart.

Man wearing glasses and a black jacket over an open collared shirt talks to camera like he is in an interview. To his side, a computer monitor displays application thumbnails.

Closeup of a woman wearing a white and pink striped scarf. She speaks and looks slightly to the side of the camera.