Digital accessibility in cultural institutions

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Digital accessibility in cultural institutions, especially museums, means:

  • creating an accessible website, an accessible online ticketing system
  • providing an extranet and intranet, i.e. a website for internal use only
  • ensuring that content and materials are published on social media and the website in line with accessibility requirements
  • training webmasters on how to publish content in an accessible way, and on which methods and channels of communication are used by people with special needs
  • accessible software to make the arts and cultural heritage more accessible for people with disabilities
  • providing a service for people with hearing disabilities using communication aids or by using remote online access to the interpreter service via websites and applications
  • providing a device to serve the hearing impaired, in particular induction loops or FM systems
  • adding subtitles for the deaf to online multimedia
  • adding sign language to multimedia (on the web, in institutional spaces, exhibitions)
  • adding audio description for visually impaired persons to films on the museum’s website
  • adding alternative texts to published graphics
  • publication on the website of information about the scope of the cultural institution’s activities in machine-readable text and ETR – Easy to read.
  • accessibility of navigating the museum’s website