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

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

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Accessibility Information

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Accessibility Guidelines

DCMP offers the only guidelines developed for captioning and describing educational media, the Captioning Key and Description Key, used worldwide.
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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 deaf or blind. Full membership is required for most.
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Modules

Modules are selfpaced, 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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Accessibility

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

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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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Trace Dominguez

Trace Dominguez is an award-winning science communicator, video producer, YouTube creator, story writer, and host.

Black and white photo of the aerial view of the hurricane. Caption: But it's not the increased wind speed.

Trace holds reusable bottles and coffee mugs in his hands. Caption: I think reusable bottles might be bad for the environment,

A golden black spider crawls on a wooden log. Caption: In true comic book fashion, the spiders absorbed the graphene.

C, G, I image of a low wall of ice on the ocean in low light. A much bigger and taller perpendicular wall of ice juts out from it. Caption. What's under the sand and what's under the ice?

Host Trace Dominquez, a man with short black hair, brown glasses, and a black shirt, sits and talks in front of a busy bookshelf. Text on screen reads, "Modulator. Demodulator." Caption. Modem is actually a compound word for modulator slash demodulator.

Trace wears safety goggles and has a hammer in his hand. Caption: Ow.

Trace is standing in front of a book shelf. Caption: Genetic engineering is complex, and it's wide reaching.

Chemical notation. The header reads, “Standard Model of Particle Physics.” Below are two columns. The first is labeled, “Fermions.” with two tables of six particles below, labeled “quarks” and “leptons.” The second column is labeled “Bosons,” with a table of five particles illustrated below.

Animation of red blood cells in a blood vessel. Caption: Red blood cells are eight picometers,

Trace is standing in front of a book shelf. Caption: Also, how does it adjust that temperature once it knows it.

Trace is standing with his right shoulder facing the book shelf. Caption: A la the Scully effect, which is just the best, but is it real.

A specimen of a wild cat. Caption: It's a sculpted animal that the skin is then glued to.

Trace wears scarfs around his shoulders and talks. Caption: We are here, today, to lay to rest the kilogram.

A mouse nibbles the food particle holding it in its claws. Caption: The nanoparticles gave the mouse the ability to see infrared.

Closeup of host Trace Dominquez wearing a red polo shirt and clear glasses smiling and looking up. A bright, square light on a stand is in front to his left, angled upward. Caption. So they would sit under a light.

Split screen interview. One man wearing eyeglasses appears in a black ski mask in a dark room. On the right side is a man reacting, holding up a hand and squinting his eyes.

Man sits at a podcasting desk with a large microphone in front of him. He holds out his hands as if he is explaining something to us.

Man sits at a podcasting desk with a large microphone in front of him. He points two fingers together on the desk as if he is explaining something to us.

Astronomy photo. In a telescopic shot, we see a ray of light at the edge of the universe shining brightly amidst blue clouds of stardust reaching out towards glowing red.

Podcast video. Raising his eyebrows, a man sits at a podcasting desk speaking into a large microphone.