Glossary

Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.

4 results found in Museum Accessibility.

Cultural Heritage (Heritage, Digital Heritage)
Cultural heritage is the inherited tangible and intangible expressions of a community’s history, including buildings, monuments, artefacts, landscapes, oral traditions, performance, ritual, and langua…
Cultural Heritage Accessibility (Heritage Accessibility, Accessible Cultural Heritage)
The practice of making cultural heritage sites, monuments, museums, and artifacts accessible to people with disabilities through physical modifications, assistive technologies, and alternative formats…
Formal Analysis (Formal Analysis (Art))
An art-historical method that examines an artwork's observable formal attributes — composition, color, line, light, texture, scale, space, and style — and how they are organized, independent of biogra…
Interpretive Alt Text
Alt text that goes beyond objective, functional description to convey interpretive dimensions of an image such as mood, symbolism, narrative, and aesthetic effect. It is most relevant for images where…