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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, 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 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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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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Ornate, ancient building with columns carved out of orange stone in the desert. Caption. "Petra is in a league of its own."

Closeup of a busy walkway crowded with pedestrians during the day. Caption. "Merchants would have passed through here 2,000 years ago."

Elaborate casket draped in gold and jewels is on display against a red curtain backdrop. Caption. "The casket holding the tooth is a bell-shaped stupa."

Overhead view of the thousands of red clay sculptures of soldiers in China known as The Terracotta Army. Caption. "This formidable army of Terracotta Warriors."

Aerial view of a segment of the Great Wall of China with brown foliage on either side. Caption. "Work began on the Great Wall of China around 220 B, C."

Tan stone domes, pillars, and arches at top of the Taj Mahal against a gray sky background. Caption. "Of Indian, Persian, Turkish, and Islamic influences."

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Aerial image of a coral reef. Caption: is one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World,

Large stone castle sitting on top of a hill with trees in the foreground and mountains in the background. Caption. "It's a network of Moorish palaces--the Alhambra."

Silhouette of 2 gothic-style cathedral spires against bright pink clouds lit up by a sunset. Caption. "Chartres Cathedral is a great religious treasure."

Inside of an ornate chapel with carved stone columns, tile floors, and a stone sculpture of 3 people in different poses on display. Caption. "It was created by Michelangelo in the 1520s."

Silhouette of a large stone statue of a man wearing armor and a helmet on a rearing horse against a cloudy sky backdrop. Caption with male narrator, "St. Petersburg was the vision of one man."

External view of the ancient Pantheon, a circular Roman temple with huge stone columns at its entrance and a domed roof. Caption. "It's the best preserved Roman temple in the world."

Closeup view detailing the tan columns and stones that make up the ancient Roman Parthenon. Caption. "The Parthenon was built around 430 B, C."

Looking between 2 buildings at the watery streets and ornate buildings of Venice. Caption. "It's the main artery of Venice, the Grand Canal."

Modern chandelier hangs inside a large room made of dark brown bricks and white mortar. There's a statue near an archway, and some items against the opposing wall. Caption. "Everything here is carved out of salt by miners."

Aerial view of the ancient mud brick buildings and kivas of Mesa Verde under a sandstone cliff. Caption. "Mesa Verde rewrote the history of the west."

Ancient stone building with many stone staircases leading up to it and surrounded by jungle trees. Caption. "Palenque, the great city of the Mayans."

Closeup looking up at the face of the green Statue of Liberty against a blue sky. Caption. "She is, of course, the Statue of Liberty."