Browse Media Learn More

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.
Visit Learning Center

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.

See All

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.
Help Center
Continuing Education and Professional Development

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

QuickClasses

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

See QuickClasses

Workshops

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

Modules

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

Students

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

See Student Courses
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.
Learn More

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.

Meet our partners

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.
Contact Us
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

Read More

Earth Sciences

Within Science

A photograph of cirrus clouds. On screen text, cirrus. Caption: Cirrus clouds are thin, white clouds.

Blue sky with beaming suns peeking out from behind clouds, while rain falls from some and lightning strikes from others. Text reads, "Weather for Kids."

Two cars are partially submerged in flood water.

Vehicles driving on a road with a funnel-shaped cloud descending from the sky. Caption: Tornadoes are smaller, very powerful storms

Close-up shot of a person squatting down and picking up a handful of dry debris of leaves and dirt off the ground, crumbling it in her hand.

Slide shows red, orange, and gold streaked text on a black background that reads, "Weathering."

Rocky streambed between snow covered banks. Caption: eventually causing them to split apart.

Dark gray text on a black background reads, "Weathering and Erosion."

Waterfall greenery in the background. Caption: Weathering occurs all around us.

Tall trees rising from standing water and mud. Caption: wetlands are harder to define than other biomes.

Still image from: What Is a Volcano?

Still image from: What Is Lightning? for Kids

Water erupting from the ground. Caption: there's something unusual about how they work.

Person in a reflective heat-protecting suit crouches next to a pit of glowing lava. Caption: (narrator) Protected now, he moves closer and fishes for fresh lava.

Person in scuba gear swimming in a cave. Caption: Little by little, they are mapping this labyrinth

Aerial view of a steeply descending hillside that ends in water. A cruise ship in in the water at the foot of the hillside. Caption: But the Santorini volcano puts Vesuvius to shame.

SUV stopped in the path of a funnel cloud. Caption: By positioning himself in the path of monster storms,

On a split screen, a man stands inside an archeological dig site, his arms wide open. On the right side is a digital art depiction of a green dinosaur, standing on its back legs. Below it is the text, “Allosaurus.”

Silhouette of the cone of a volcano in the distance with billowing clouds around in the red light of a sunset. White text in the center of the screen reads, "Volcano Nation."

Still image from: Wildfires 101

Satellite looking down the surface of the Earth over a large storm system. Caption: a new storm gathers strength, churning towards land.

Small rodent curled in a ball and sleeping in a nest with acorns. Caption: Some animals go through a similar state of dormancy

Still image from: World Oceans Day

Artist sits in front of a painting that depicts a globe split in two. The right side shows an industrial scene with smoke pluming from stacks. On the left, an eagle flies in front of a mountain while orca whales swim in the waters beneath.

Surfer rides a massive wave in a deep blue ocean.

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Awesome Hawaii

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Awesome Iceland

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Canadian Rockies

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Canyons

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Colors of Earth

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Croatia

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Deserts

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Earth Communication

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Earth in Motion

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Earth's Views

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Evolving Earth

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Extinction Earth

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Fire and Ice

Up-close shot of a green, blue, and orange insect with bulging eyes.

Person holds the invasive black and white tegu lizard up in a presentation.

Against snowy mountains, a red, arch-shaped rock formation stands amongst a desert mesa.

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Microscience

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Natural Disasters

Boat speeds along a tree-lined coastline in a bright blue sea.

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: New England

Rocky New Zealand beach sits below rugged mountains under a cloudy sky.

Wide river with white rapids rushes away from us, lined by green bushes.

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Rumbling Earth

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Sites and Sights

Zoomed-in map of the terrain of Europe, with Slovenia highlighter in orange at the center. The surrounding countries of Italy, Austria, Hungary, and Croatia are featured and labeled, with their borders highlighted in bright green.

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Strange Planet

Student leans over an open laptop on a desk while typing.

Teenage student crouches next to an orange bucket, holding a sample bottle. Her classmate works behind her along the rocky landscape.

Row of large houses looks over a vast sandy beach, lined with sandbags.

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Tides

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Time Machine

Beneath a dark brown cloud, a tornado rages through farmland. In the distance are low, stormy clouds pouring rain.

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Winter Wonderland

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Yosemite

Still image from: Xploration DIY Sci: Fluids

Peering through the helmet of an elaborate space suit, a scientist experiments with magnetic poles.

Still image from: Xploration Earth 2050: Water

Digital rendering shows a ship pulling up to a floating multi-family residence amongst floating bio-domes accompanied by rows of solar panels.

Against a backdrop of twinkling stars in a black night sky, we see text that reads, “Life 2.0, ‘Surviving the End.’”