Art Beyond Sight guide

The Art Beyond Sight Institute website has a PPT entitled Verbal Description Training which explains how to use verbal description during group visits and how to integrate it into the interactive nature of the live presentation with blind and partially sighted museum visitors. On the website, we can also find a PDF called Writing Verbal Description Audio Tours which explains how to proceed to create a suitable content for your public.

Training in verbal description is crucial for making museum visits accessible to blind and partially sighted visitors. By providing detailed verbal descriptions of works of art, guides can help to create a mental image for visitors who cannot see the works for themselves, enabling a visit experience equivalent to that of sighted people.

This initiative promotes inclusion and equality by offering blind and partially sighted people an opportunity to participate fully in cultural experiences that would otherwise be less accessible to them. By facilitating access to art and culture, it helps to break down barriers and reduce discrimination based on visual ability.

Adopting techniques such as verbal description can stimulate innovation in the way information is presented to the public. This can lead to experimentation with other forms of adaptive mediation, such as audio description or interactive technologies, enriching the experience for all visitors.

https://www.artbeyondsight.org/mei/verbal-description-training/writing-verbal-description-for-audio-guides/

English

Museum professionals

Free

The site is easy to read for dys- users because the pages are not overloaded and the font used is sans serif.

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This is a textual description of how to produce an audio description of different types of artworks.

They explain how to use audio players and also how to use audio descriptions on smartphones.

WCAG compliant

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