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What They Say About Us
I have been thinking about how discussions of museum accessibility shift based on the lived-experience of a majority of participants. When a group of blind people discuss museums, they talk about the limits of visual presentation and the scarcity of tactile objects. When a group of museum people discuss accessibility, they talk about everything from…
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Design Considerations for Creating Sonification
This post concludes a series of blog posts that I wrote about a presentation that I gave introducing museum people to the concept of sonification, representing data with nonspeech audio. Earlier posts in the series are Introducing Sonification, in which I discussed using sound to enhance storytelling. And Exploring Scientific Concepts And Data With Sonification…
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Tour of the FDR Memorial
In July 2023, I led two tours highlighting the braille and tactile exhibits that were installed at the FDR memorial last year. The tours were for 60 K-12 teachers who participated in professional development workshops focused on the disability history of the FDR Memorial and FDR presidency. The workshops were supported by a grant from…
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Tactile Exploration Helps People Remember Objects
I have written about the importance of tactile exploration for blind people who gather information about objects using their sense of touch. I think that tactile exploration also benefits sighted people. In this post, I discuss a study showing that people remembered more details about an object when they were encouraged to touch it. The…
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Commentary How Tactile Graphics Can Help End Image Poverty
An excellent article by Chancey Fleet was brought to my attention after I published a recent post. Tactile Drawing and Spatial Thinking. Chancey Fleet describes image poverty as the lack of tactile graphics. Read her excellent article, linked below. She discusses: • Attitudinal and bureaucratic barriers that limit the availability of tactile graphics. • The…
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