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) 

Samples of 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

Reid My Mind

Audio Description Described 

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

Access-Ability

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 

“Person, Shoes, Tree. Is the Person Naked?” What People with Vision Impairments Want in Image Descriptions

“It’s Complicated”: Negotiating Accessibility and (Mis)Representation in Image Descriptions of Race, Gender, and Disability

Plain Language 

What makes writing more readable? (plain language) 

Podcast Production 

Making Podcasts Accessible: Tips for Engaging a Diverse Listener Base

ACCESSIBLE SOCIAL MEDIA

Accessible Social: a free resource and education hub that shares best practices for creating accessible and inclusive social media content.

Accessibility & Creative Practice

Alice Sheppard: Disability as an Art (video)

Accessibility As A Creative Practice, Patricia Kalidonis

Access as a Creative Tool 

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

Tactile Graphics, Polly Edman

Art Beyond Sight

Brazilian Artist Creates Graffiti for the Visually Impaired

Life: A Tactile Comic, by Philipp Meyer (2013) 

Making Quick and Easy Line Drawings

Tactile Graphics on the Fly

Cardboard Construction 

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