This literature review surveys published research that aims to foster blind and visually
impaired (VI) people's engagement with cultural heritage. The reviewed papers cover a …

Museums aim to offer engaging and memorable visitor experiences, but their visuo-centric
bias can prove challenging for people both with and without sight. Audio Description was …

Museums present a myriad of source texts, which are often highly ambiguous. Yet museum
audio description (AD) is sited in an AD tradition that advocates objectivity. In screen AD …

The paper portrays a linguistic and textual analysis of a corpus of 18 museum audio
descriptions (ADs)(a fairly neglected area of accessibility and audiovisual translation …

The experience of visiting a museum exhibition is inherently visual. Although blind and
partially blind people are increasingly offered some access to collections through audio and …

This research describes the development of the Workshop for Inclusive Co‐created Audio
Description (W‐ICAD) model. Research from psychology and neuroscience explains why …

Exploring the potential of data sonification, our study focuses on enhancing accessibility to
oceanographic data for blind and low vision (BLV) students in museums. Five auditory …

The systemic dynamics of cultural identity accounts for the uniqueness of places and their
people and has become the driving force for the development of communities both in highly …

This study explored the impact of sound-enriched audio descriptions (AD) on the experience
and memorability of a digitally presented photography exhibition. Forty blind and partially …

Modern museum practice embraces equal access for all, but access for blind and partially-
sighted (BPS) audience remains problematic given the ocularcentricity of museums. Many …