Using AD in education website launched

Tuesday, 10 November 2009 08:20

The US accessible education organisation the Described and Captioned Media Program (DCMP) has joined with the American Council of the Blind in developing a special website to promote the use of audio description (known as “video description” in North America) in education. The Listening is Learning website is a campaign to encourage the use of audio description by both vision impaired students and other students. 

The DCMP is a Federally-funded project that provides both captioned and audio described education resources across America.  MAA’s Accessible Education Database is based on the DCMP concept and provides a comprehensive listing of captioned education materials.  The database also allows users to add content, tags and other information.