Resources
[A Non Exhaustive List]
Digital Accessibility (general)
AccessThat: Digital Accessibility Basics – Rooted in Rights
NYU’s Digital Accessibility Resources
A List of Books on Digital Accessibility – TPGi
Disability & Film Production (Part 1) – Ophira Calof, Disabled Producers Lab | The Pulse
Be My Eyes “Inclusive Language” Guide
What Every Engineer Should Know About Digital Accessibility, Sarah Horton & David Sloan
Captioning
Captioning Key (excellent guide to best practices in captioning)
Artist Christine Sun Kim Rewrites Closed Captions | Pop-Up Magazine
Audio Description
Best Practice – Superior Description Services (Anti-Racist Audio Description)
Meet Roy Samuelson, the Voice-Over Artist Helping the Blind & Visually Impaired Experience Films
Audio Description for the Arts | A Linguistic Perspective | Elisa Pere
Flipping the Script on Audio Description: We Are Worthy
Audio Description Project — LIZA SYLVESTRE
“Disability as a Method of Creative Practice: Audio Description as Blind Intervention”, a research-creation video by Arseli Dokumaci (2018)
Video Games
I Have my Dream Job: Making Video Games Accessible – BlindNewWorld
Gaming Without Sight: We Wanna Play Too (Brandon Cole) (25min video Brandon Cole presents)
Every Trailer from the Access-Ability Summer Showcase 2024
Alt-Text
No More Excuses – The Definitive Guide To The Alt-Text Field
How to Write Alt Text and Image Descriptions for the visually impaired
WebAIM Alternative Text (an excellent detailed guide)
Image/Visual Description
Making Images Accessible – DIAGRAM Center
My Thoughts On Visual Descriptions With Low Vision | Veroniiiica
Plain Language
What makes writing more readable? (plain language)
Podcast Production
Making Podcasts Accessible: Tips for Engaging a Diverse Listener Base
ACCESSIBLE SOCIAL MEDIA
Accessibility & Creative Practice
Alice Sheppard: Disability as an Art (video)
Accessibility As A Creative Practice, Patricia Kalidonis
Disability Poetics – introductory essay & a great collection of poems
The Future of Design Is Designing for Disability | The Nation (link to google doc)
Cripping the Arts: It’s About Time
28 Movies, Books, TV Shows (and More) That Explore Disability Culture – The New York Times
Podcast: Accessibility as a Radical Creative Practice
Long Live the Disabled Artist, Long Live the Disabled Artist(s), Alison Bergblom Johnson
Disability Visibility, Alice Wong
Assistive or Artistic Technologies? Exploring the Connections between Art, Disability and Wheelchair Use, Giulia Barbareschi and Masa Inakage
Mixed Feelings (Radio Show Series – interviews with many disabled artists)
Diverse Artists, Diverse Audiences, Mariana Lemos
Criptech and the Art of Access, Leonardo Journal, MIT Press, Vol 57, No. 2
Tactile Graphics
Brazilian Artist Creates Graffiti for the Visually Impaired
Life: A Tactile Comic, by Philipp Meyer (2013)
Making Quick and Easy Line Drawings
Inkscape (as an alternative to Adobe Illustrator)
Touch Objects & Tactile ARt
Bell Bronzes: Reflections on a Blind Visual Arts Practice, Aaron McPeake
The Art of Touch: Lending a Hand to the Sighted Majority, Georgina Kleege
Lenora Rosenfield, Relief (2018)
Please Touch the Art: This Artist Creates Tactile Portraits for the Blind