[community] Best Practices for Describing Art in Alt Text

[John W (personal)]

to add to John's comment: when I asked about alternative formats at the
show I went to last week, I was offered a tour three hours later for an
extra fee. Disappointing indeed.

On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 10:29 AM, John W (personal) <pickupwillis at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Caren, one possibility is that the show I'm referring to is a visiting
> exhibit from Sweden, so thei reasoning may be that the ROM is not wholly
> responsible for how it is put together. However, I am writing to the ROM to
> express my concern that the institution should be educating its partners
> around the world that here in Ontario we do not mount shows that cannot be
> experienced inclusively by all patrons.
>
> I would like to cc my comments to the Senior Advisor - do you have a name?
>
> j
>
> On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 10:23 AM, Caren Watkins <carenwatkins at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I'm wondering what happened to the position of Senior Advisor, Inclusion
>> at the ROM? Johanna Contreras, the accessibility advisor at the ROM
>> spoke at the Accessibility Conference in Guelph a couple of years ago and
>> the museum seemed to be heading in a very good direction!
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 9:52 AM, John Willis <pickupwillis at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I am afraid I have no expertise in this area, except as a user of
>>> alternative text - and I hope once these best practises are identified we
>>> can all send them to the Royal Ontario Museum, where the current show on
>>> Viking culture is an  apalling example of non-inclusive Design: very text
>>> heavy, no audio, no tactile, no braille. Really shocking for a publicly
>>> subsidized institution
>>>
>>> Good luck Andrea, your work is very important!
>>>
>>> John D. Willis
>>> Design & innovation in Public Services
>>>
>>>
>>> > On Nov 13, 2017, at 15:02, Andrea Lamarre <alamarre at uoguelph.ca>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Hello all,
>>> >
>>> > I am wondering if anyone has come across best practices for describing
>>> art in alternative text? I can find many examples of best practices for
>>> alternative text in general but not for art specifically.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > I want to do justice to the art but I am not always sure what the
>>> intention of the artist was in creating the piece, nor am I always sure
>>> myself what the elements of the art piece are. I am trying to balance
>>> respect for artistry and respect for accessibility. My words about the art
>>> will necessarily be coloured by my own interpretation of the piece.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Any thoughts would be very welcome.
>>> >
>>> > Thank you!
>>> >
>>> > Andrea
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Andrea LaMarre
>>> >
>>> > PhD Candidate, FRHD
>>> >
>>> > Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition
>>> >
>>> > University of Guelph
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Knowledge Mobilization Coordinator
>>> >
>>> > ReVision Centre for Art and Social Justice
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > alamarre at uoguelph.ca
>>> >
>>> > 519 993 6435
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>
>
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*CMRP, MDes *Inclusive design, strategy and research
Toronto CANADA

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