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Updated 2005.12.11

Accessible DVDs

Is DVD the most accessible home-video format there is?

The answer is yes, with some provisos. Learn all about DVD captioning, “subtitling,” audio description, and dubbing here.

• NEW! Comments on published guidelines for making DVD menus accessible
• Capabilities: What can DVD do that VHS and laserdisc cannot?
  • Basic capabilities
  • Finer points
  • Sexy feature comparison table available as a separate printable document
• DVDs with audio description
  • Listings were previously moved to Wikipedia, where a vote was held and they were deleted. I do not maintain current listings of DVDs with audio description, and neither does anyone else, to my knowledge
  • Old listings are available for historical interest
• Somewhat older, but the advice is unchanged: DVD subtitling on Macs: Don’t try this at home