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Making Art Accessible Blind or Low Vision audiences.wav
There are a number of ways to make your show accessible to blind and low vision audiences, including venue considerations, tactile tours and audio description. Whether you are interested in creating an accessible service for the blind and low vision community (e.g. Audio Description of an event) or whether you would just like to take some easy steps to ensure your event does the best it can to engage with more potential audience members, please read on for more info.
“Everyone who is blind and have low vision, we are all very different - in how we use our vision and how we use our technology and services.” - ****Maysa Abouzeid, Comedian and Melbourne Fringe Alumnus
A great way to make Blind and Low Vision audiences feel welcome to your work is to create image descriptions for any media or material that you use to advertise the work. Through the use of screen readers, it lets blind or low vision users understand what’s happening in the image through text to voice functions.
The inclusion of an image description below any photos – especially if the image includes text – ensure that people know what’s in the photos. It’s important to post images that everybody is able to engage with!
Keep image descriptions as short yet detailed as you can, a few sentences max. Describe what you see in the photos. Some items to consider when writing your image descriptions include: