{"id":2440,"date":"2019-05-20T23:02:13","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T04:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/?p=2440"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:03:47","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:03:47","slug":"140365-description-caption-keys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/140365-description-caption-keys\/","title":{"rendered":"140:365 | Description &#038; Captioning Keys"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I took a closer look today at <a href=\"http:\/\/keystoaccess.org\/\">two resources from the Described and Captioned Media Program (DCMP) Key for Access website<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/descriptionkey.org\/background.html#1\">The first is The Description Key <\/a>&#8211; recommendations, suggestions, and best practices for &#8220;verbal depiction of key visual elements in a television program, video, DVD, or other multimedia presentation&#8221;<\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.captioningkey.org\/\">The second is The Captioning Key<\/a> &#8211; recommendations, suggestions, and best practices for converting the audio content&nbsp;into text.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These sites get deeeep into the weeds on description and captioning, but they also provide a great overview for those dipping a toe into designing for accessibility. Good stuff!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took a closer look today at two resources from the Described and Captioned Media Program (DCMP) Key for Access website: The first is The Description Key &#8211; recommendations, suggestions, and best practices for &#8220;verbal depiction of key visual elements in a television program, video, DVD, or other multimedia presentation&#8221; The second is The Captioning&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[194,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2440"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2444,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440\/revisions\/2444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}