The Victoria and Albert Museum offers via Photographs Described for Blind and Partially Sighted Visitors. Currently this online collections has four historical images with descriptions for perusal.
This section of the website looks at four very different historic photographs from the V&A’s collection. Each photograph is reproduced in colour and is accompanied by an explanation of the photographic process, the historical context of the image and a vivid description of the photograph to help blind or visually impaired visitors imagine what the image is like.
What we need is a grass roots effort to do this for all museum objects. An online, downloadable WikiArtDescription service. Just show download the collection for a particular museum onto your iPhone or other smartphone. ID the relevant piece and, voila, here’s your description. Like your typical museum $5 audioguide, but free, universal, ubiquitous and user-driven.
This would make a great iPhone app!
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Very cool Tom! I`m guessing that their site must be accessible to screen readers. Thanks for sharing. Trish:-)