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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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View of the Cape Town skyline with mountains in the distance, from the perspective of a boat sailing past. Caption. Would have been a welcome beacon for those early sailors.

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Still image from: Stripes: The Art of Transformation (Spanish)

Group of seniors wearing exercise shorts or pants are standing and doing steps in an exercise room. Their exercise instructor models movements at the front of the class. Caption. By what we do in terms of physical activity.

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English soldiers march through the fog, moving towards a distant blaze. Caption. Mad Anthony's troops indiscriminately destroy.

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Grocery store produce department with stacks of different fruit. Caption: Many fruits are better for us than candy and cookies.

2 middle aged men stand inside a front door entry. 1 man looks downward and uses a drill on the door's lock area as the other man watches him. Caption. To rebuild their homes which have been destroyed.

Airport security screening area with people walking through stanchion belts to a security check-in officer. 2 other officers stand near him. Security metal detectors, metal tables, and x-ray detectors with conveyor belts appear behind the officers.

Closeup of a person's midsection as they remove a tote bag from their arm to put it in the open trunk of a car.

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2 teenage girls stand outdoors in front of a concrete block wall. 1 girl's arm rests on the shoulder of the other girl who holds a microphone while speaking. Both look towards the camera.

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Still image from: The Double Root: Alicia Gregorio. Chinanteco. San Antonio Analco, Oaxaca. (Spanish)

Still image from: The Double Root: Angela Marcos. Nahuatl. Tlamacazapa, Guerrero. (Spanish)

Still image from: The Double Root: Aurora Vera. Spanish. Tepetzintla, Veracruz. (Spanish)

Still image from: The Double Root: Epilogue. Peripheral Flavors. (Spanish)

Still image from: The Double Root: Evaristo Mar. Nahuatl. San Martin Chalchicuautla, San Luis Potosi. (Spanish)

Still image from: The Double Root: Isabella de la Cruz. Ñomndaa (Amuzgo). Xochistlahuaca, Guerrero. (Spanish)

Still image from: The Double Root: Louis Perez. Maya mom. Motozintla, Chiapas. (Spanish)

Still image from: The Double Root: Luis Manuel Amador. Binnizá (Zapotec). Juchitan de Zaragoza, Oaxaca. (Spanish)

Still image from: The Double Root: Marahi Lopez. Binnizá (Zapotec). Juchitan de Zaragoza, Oaxaca. (Spanish)

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Still image from: The Double Root: Prologue Peripheral Flavors (Spanish)

Still image from: The Double Root: Rocio Pascual. Ayuujk (mixe) San Pedro and San Pablo Ayutla, Oaxaca. (Spanish)

Still image from: The Double Root: Sebastián Guzmán. Tseltal. Tenejapa, Chiapas. (Spanish)

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

Still image from: The Sound of Fusion: Adventure and Tradition (San José del Guaviare, Guaviare) (Spanish)

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Still image from: The Sounds of Fusion: The Sounds of the Llanos (Villavicencio, Meta) (Spanish)

Digital illustration of an ancient Indian city with the snow-dusted mountains in the distance. In the foreground, people are wading in a body of water. Caption. Where each drop, just like each person.

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Native American woman dressed in a tan fringe top, colorful scarf and hair piece holds a child in her arms. Caption. Were foods like corn, potatoes, turkey.

Still image from: This Is How The Earth Sounds: Garagoa, Boyacá (Spanish)

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Still image from: This Is How the Night Sounds: Cowboy Songs (Spanish)

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Close up of a young girl looking down and facing a senior person in a headscarf whose back faces camera. Caption. And if he was, all you have to do.

Still image from: Two Out of Three Falls: The Arena Mexico (Spanish)

Men in military uniform sit amongst civilians in a crowd of people. Caption. Man 2 as narrator. That at Iwo Jima, all those who fought.

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Gilded art image of a man walking along a stream wearing a mask over his face. Birds and tree branches fill the image. Caption. Were thinking about some of the same ideas.

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

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Black and white photo of Yogi Berra in a catcher's uniform, squatting and holding up a mit in front of his face. Caption. To the now-legendary "it ain't over till it's over."