Exhibition design, music for the blind - see what other people have done to increase accessibility for individuals with disabilities.
See Instructional Methods and Media & Materials links for preparing materials that will be accessible.
Creating an Accessible Tri-fold Brochure
If you are using “Adobe InDesign Creative Suite 2” and “Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional” this document teaches you how make accessible brochures.
R2D2 Center at UW-Milwaukee
Creating an Accessible Tri-fold Brochure
EqTD's for Graphic Elements - Why & Where
Equivalent text descriptions (EqTD's) are extremely important and can be tricky. Here you will find a set of EqTD related documents that detail processes, purposes and levels of complexity. The origin of providing alternative text for graphic elements and a brief review of the R2D2 standard are included.
R2D2 Center at UW-Milwaukee
Equivalent Text Descriptions - Why and Where
Equivalent Text Description (EqTD) Tutorial for Graphics
This short tutorial provides examples and a structure for writing equivalent text descriptions for graphic elements.
R2D2 Center at UW-Milwaukee
Tutorial for EqTDs
No Manual Formatting
In word processed documents (that are not RTF files), formatting with the use of "B" or "I" or by manually organizing content with tabs, underlines, etc. provides structure and organization that is only available to sighted readers. Using the "styles" features of word processing software is essential to creating documents that are universally designed.
No Manual Formatting
Procurement for Accessible Goods & Materials
This posterette describes recommended steps to ensure maximum accessibility when acquiring goods and materials - custom or "off the shelf".
R2D2 Center at UW-Milwaukee
Good and Materials Procurement
Procurement Tips
Thesis/Project and Dissertation Accessibility Protocol
Graduate students in the Occupational Therapy Department at UWM are required to provide an accessible copy of their thesis, project or dissertation. This protocol explains the required "why" and "how". It is distributed in conjunction with a formatted template that includes all of the requirements of the graduate school at UWM.
R2D2 Center at UW-Milwaukee
Thesis/Project & Dissertation Protocol
Video Closed Captioning Protocol
This protocol will help you to create a video with a caption track. Videos captioned with this method will be playable by older versions of QuickTime, back to QuickTime 3 (depending on video and audio code used).
Video Closed Captioning Protocol
Video Descriptive Track Protocol (Draft)
This protocol will help you create a video with an additional audio track that attempts to describe the visual component of the video. Note that the file created from this document will always have the additional track playing. We are currently examining the possibility of adding a toggle button.
Video Descriptive Track Protocol (Draft)
Resource for purchasable art education materials. However, "The volumes are also available to legally blind students and their educators through the Federal Quota Program." A link to an explanation of the program is provided.
Art Beyond Sight
Link to a comprehensive website out of Australia that has as its vision, "A society in which people with disabilities fully experience and participate in the arts and cultural life." Lots of information, but lacking in website accessibility features.
Accessing the Arts (Australia)
A document that provides guidelines and design tools to make accessible exhibitions that work for people with disabilities as well as for the rest of the public.
Smithsonian Accessibility Program
Accommodation based approaches by disability type for students to have equal access to artwork, studio or performance educational activities. Includes a brief test of understanding.
DO-IT, University of Washington
"Camera for K is a photographic interface that maximizes independency of physically handicapped people who use wheelchair and cannot operate the interface of normal cameras. Any switches familiar to them can be attached to this interface so that they easily start to use."
YoungHyun Chung, Interactive Telecommunications Program, New York University
"Digital Wheel Art is an interactive system that helps individuals with disabilities express themselves in artistic ways. It also gives general audiences an opportunity to explore and rethink disabilities through art."
YoungHyun Chung, Interactive Telecommunications Program, New York University
"This checklist is designed to assist galleries, museums and exhibition spaces in putting on exhibitions that are accessible to all members of the disability community. This checklist can be used to evaluate the access of a pre-exisiting exhibition or as a guide to help prepare a new exhibition."
Accessing the Arts (Australia)
Link to the EUropean Design for All e-Accessibility Network (EDeAN) - Design for All site [see Major Players - UD]. There is painfully little information on UD of furniture on the web. This page of examples from Germany are very good. This site has some exemplary accessibility features and excellent information about products and services for people with varying abilities.
RSA - Removing Barriers to Social Progress
"Provides a focus for people-centred design and innovation at the RCA in London, the world's only wholly postgraduate university institution of art and design." Its programmes looks at how a people-centred and socially inclusive approach to design can support independent living and working for ageing and diverse populations, improved standards of healthcare and patient safety, and a flow of innovative ideas for business. Lots of good resources.
Helen Hamlyn Centre [UK]
While designed primarily for students who are deaf or hard of hearing, this page within the RIT website includes strategies to meet the accessibility challenges in lab and studio environments. The information has applications for all students.
Class Act: a project of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester Institute of Technology (NTID/RIT)
Touch Graphics products have been developed through a series of research grants from the National Science Foundation and the US Department of Education. These agencies have not explicitly endorsed these products.
Neither do we. But take a look at some amazing work, universally designed, to improve access to museums for all visitors. A few other significant products include UD way-finding systems and a "rugged and simple new computer peripheral device designed for use as a "viewer" for audio/tactile materials". This device allows visually impaired individuals access to gepgraphy. math and science constructs that have not been accessible
Touch Graphic, Inc.
"Over 500 songs taught in an All-Audio format for over a dozen instruments. Available in Tape, CD or as Downloadable MP3's. No Print. No Braille. No Problem! The number of 'Intro to' courses has reached a dozen and the 'by ear' song lesson list keeps growing from it's current 500+ mark. Almost all of Mr. Brown's offerings are available through the National Library Service as well."
Brown, Bill
