Rich Experiences for All Participants

Publication Type  Conference Paper
Year of Publication  2004
Authors  Nevile, Liddy; Lissonnet, Sophie; Treviranus, Jutta
Conference Name  Museums and the Web 2004: Proceedings
Conference Start Date  March 31 - April
Publisher  Archives & Museum Informatics
Conference Location  Washington DC / Arlington VA, USA
Editor  David Bearman and Jennifer Trant
Keywords  accessibility; user profiles; metadata; accessForAll; user needs and preferences
Abstract  

Museums are developing devices, portable and wearable that can, in many cases, be used to enrich cultural participants' experiences. These standard user access points may be made accessible to everyone equally through work by Assistive Technology Research Centre (ATRC) (http://www.utoronto.ca/atrc/) and now others to develop a user profile known in its IMS instantiation as the ACCLIP (http://www.imsglobal.org/accessibility/) . This paper aims to encourage museums to enable their information devices and systems to accommodate user needs as expressed in accessibility metadata profiles. In this way, these museum devices will be truly inclusive. There is also consideration of some extensions to the accessibility architecture that may have specific value in the museum context. Starting with achievements to date, we provide examples of how the accessForAll element and matching resource descriptions might be used and extended for museum purposes.

URL  http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/papers/nevile/nevile.html

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