Guidelines and Best Practices for Describing Educational Video
Description Key
These guidelines are a key for vendors who perform description for the DCMP. The information is also applicable to anyone providing audio description of all types of media at verious levels.
Captioning Key
DCMP also provides guidelines for captioning educational video in our Captioning Key.
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Welcome to the Description Key
Description is the key to opening a world of information for persons with a vision loss, literacy needs, or loss of cognitive abilities. The American Foundation for the Blind reports that 21.5 million adults have vision loss and 94,000 children with a vision loss are being helped by some kind of special education. While description was developed...Read More
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Description Key - About the Key
Originally developed through a partnership between the Described and Captioned Media Program (DCMP) and the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB), the Description Key began as recommendations, suggestions, and best practices culled from an extensive literature search and meta-analysis [PDF] in 2006. An expert panel in media description and edu...Read More
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Description Key - Preparation
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Description Key - What to Describe
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Description Key - How to Describe
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Description Key - Technical Issues
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