Description
This section examines accessible practices in ensuring that museum exhibits and materials are available to persons with disabilities.
Recommendations
Ensure that museum employees have guidance regarding how to make and provide accessible museum materials.
- This slide deck entitled Improving Communication with Disabled People addresses general communication access.
2. Provide training to museum employees on how to assist variously disabled museum visitors.
- Contact Derek Coates to schedule training on this topic for employees.
- Disability Etiquette: Tips On Interacting With People With Disabilities.
3. In order to facilitate maximum accessibility, incorporate alternative forms of communication for exhibits, e.g. audio-descriptors, braille, large print text, tactile exhibits, and/or haptic technology.
- Contact Steve Johnston to create a special project to implement these items.
4. Ensure that digital interfaces at the museum-film showings, kiosks, etc- are accessible.
- Contact the Web Access department if you have kiosks or other digital interfaces so they can conduct a review of the equipment;