Accessibility

Stories of Inclusion: Responding to Visitors who are Deaf, Hard-of-Hearing, Blind or with Low Vision

By American Alliance of Museums

In this recorded webinar, accessibility experts and advocates explore the issues, challenges, and successes of addressing the needs and expectations of visitors and other facility or program users who are deaf, hard-of-hearing, blind, or …
Stories of Inclusion: ADA@25 and Universal Design at Cultural Institutions

By American Alliance of Museums

This recorded webinar will help guide you in finding approaches to sharing information and telling compelling stories that can help audiences make meaning of their museum ex…
Futurist Friday: The Sound of Color

By Elizabeth Merritt

Meet Neil Harbisson. He is one of the 1 in 30,000 or so people born each year with a form of complete colorblindness. You might think of Neil as having a disability–one that impairs, for example, his ability to experience art.But …
Museums and ADA@25

By Beth Bienvenu

This article originally appeared in the September/October 2015 issue of Museum magazine. Progress and looking ahead These artworks were on display in “The Art of the Lived Experiment” at the DisArt Festival, which aims to change …
Turning Museums Inside Out

By Winifred Kehl

This article originally appeared in the September/October 2015 issue of Museum magazine. Opening collections, engaging audiences On a corner near the north entrance of the University of Washington in Seattle, set back from the road and …
Museums and ADA@25

By Greg Stevens

This article originally appeared in the September/October 2015 edition of Museum magazine. A look back July 2015 marked the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), a federal law intended to guarantee equal access for …
Meet Emma, the Docent Dog

By Elizabeth Merritt

I’m having a great time following the many and various discussions on Museum Junction—the Alliance’s conversation forum for members and non-members alike. One recent thread explored service dogs in museums—their role, the regulations that …
Handy Bionics

By Elizabeth Merritt

#robotics #prosthetics #disability Follow the link in the photo caption to the associated story. You can find more glimpses of the future (and links) on CFM’s Pintere…
Throwback Thursday: the Coming Dementia Epidemic

By Elizabeth Merritt

This past Tuesday, Lisa Eriksen blogged about museum programs for people with dementia and how staff address the thorny challenge shifting focus from impact to engagement, and assessing programs that explicitly do not expect to impart new …
Older Adults and Programming for People with Dementia

By Elizabeth Merritt

I’ve been planning a workshop for the Alliance’s Accreditation Commission, helping them explore evaluation programs that focus on impact, and how that may translate to our field. Bill Gates’ blithely sets numeric goals for eliminating …