Information for Media Producers and Distributors
General Information
The National Association of the Deaf has a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Education to evaluate and
select educational media to be described and captioned. Rights are negotiated to (1) describe/caption titles as required,
(2) make unlimited numbers of DVD copies and loan these at no charge to registered members, (3) deliver the content digitally
to registered members, and (4) broadcast to "remote areas" in Alaska and Hawaii.
DCMP Media Acquisition
Titles approved by the U.S. Department of Education are annually identified as high-priority
items for purchase and
inclusion in the DCMP collection. These titles are most commonly used in schools across the United States.
If the DCMP does not have a listing of your best-selling items, please contact us. We are also interested in information
you have regarding the alignment of your media with academic standards.
Making Your Media Accessible
Accessible media can benefit everyone. When your products are described and captioned, new markets are opened to you.
Visit the Clearinghouse section
of this site for information about accessible media, and contact us when you have questions.
Description is the verbal depiction of key visual components in a television broadcast,
webcast, film, video, CD-ROM, DVD, multimedia, live event or other production. Inserted
into natural pauses
in the program's soundtrack, the description provides information
that otherwise would remain inaccessible to someone who is blind or visualy impaired
without the assistance of a sighted person.
Captioning is a textual display of the audio information of a live television broadcast,
webcast, film, video, CD-ROM, DVD, multimedia, live event or other production.
Captions not only display words as the text equivalent of spoken dialogue or narration,
but they also include speaker identification and sound effects.