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and style of the font, and changing the background color. There is also a transcript
feature that allows teachers to download the transcript of the captions and/or the
audio description, which makes the videos accessible to students who are both deaf
and blind. The transcripts can be read through refreshable or print braille.
Teachers can set up accounts for their K-12 students and then assign
usernames and passwords to each student. The teacher sets permissions for the
account and assigns media. This allows the teacher to monitor the students'
activity. It also allows teachers full access to the Clips and Lessons feature. This
feature assists teachers in pulling clips from one or multiple videos in the DCMP
library and creating a complete lesson with them. The system allows teachers to
insert video clips, questions, and external resources into an online platform to
develop comprehensive lessons that can be shared with students. These can be used
for homework, remote, or in-class activities.
User feedback suggested that Clips and Lessons needed a way for teachers
to include their own videos in lessons as a customized teaching tool. Enabling
video uploads was relatively simple, but those teacher-created videos also needed
to be accessible. From this user and developer feedback, the media accessibility
tool was born. DCMP started building a fully accessible tool that would allow
teachers to upload their own videos, then add captions, audio description, and
