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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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DCMP offers the only guidelines developed for captioning and describing educational media, used worldwide.
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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 are self-paced, online trainings designed for professionals, open to eLearners and full members.
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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 viewers who are deaf and hard of hearing, 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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Woman raises eyebrows and opens mouth in mid-speech. Painting with mounds of pottery and a figure holding up their fist as backdrop. Caption. That it was a time when the tradition of tolerance.

Series of black and white frames depicting a woman moving from standing to sitting. Caption. Muybridge took 100,000 images of animals and humans in motion.

Men in green military fatigues and helmets run towards camera with rifles in hands and waves crashing behind them. Caption. The men are left with virtually no cover on the beach.

Closeup of a stone building with 3 identical gabled roofs and arched windows. Caption. And can be seen in Germany's architecture.

Still image from: Crash Course World History I: Alexander the Great and the Situation...the Great?

Still image from: Crash Course World History II: Asian Responses to Imperialism

Black and white family photo of Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra, and 4 daughters. Caption. Thus ends 300 years of czarist rule.

Busy plaza with crowds of Japanese women and men. Caption. Overcrowding has become a serious issue.

Still image from: Museum Access: The Best of World History

Closeup of the entrance to Pabellón Real in Plaza Mayor with crowds of people in the foreground. Spanish caption. Fue durante ese periodo que España alcanzó.

Black and white still of men in turbans crowded together. Caption. Promises of Arab independence are never mentioned.

Black and white image of rows of men in suits looking down, some at papers. Long desk in front is labeled with the names of various countries. Caption. The U, N brokered frequent truces.

Black and white closeup of newspapers scattered on top of 1 another. Caption. For the first time, the power of the Arab countries.

Wide shot of 3 Egyptian pyramids in the desert. Caption. The middle pyramid of the three great structures at Giza.

Rear view shot of 2 men dressed in medieval clothing tilting their heads to the left and looking at a partially built leaning tower of Pisa with scaffolding around it. Caption. You just gotta lean a little to the left.

Black and white image shows the wreckage of a large building that was bombed during WWII. Caption. One of the worst moments came on November 9, 1938.

Black and white image of a mushroom cloud after impact in the distant background. Caption. In the New Mexico desert in 1945.

The Hindenburg zeppelin airship crashed on the ground, engulfed in flames. Caption. It's bursting into flames and falling on the mooring pad!