Website Accessibility
The Fundamentals and Principles of Web Accessibility, for Designers and Developers - Black Disabled Creatives
A collection of links to projects, tools, guides, and ongoing discussions about the fundamentals and principles of web accessibility, including Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA), design, development, tools, assistive technologies, and media players.
A quick checklist of website accessibility - National Disability Association
Not only inaccessible websites for arts organizations, but also inaccessible grant applications, fiscal sponsorship platforms, and booking procedures.
Web Accessibility Initiative has an Easy Check and Evaluation Toolkit - World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
The W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) develops standards and support materials to help you understand and implement accessibility.
The leading standards for web accessibility guidelines.
Alt-Text as Poetry - by Shannon Finnegan & Bojana Coklyat
Livestreaming, closed captioning, audio description, lighting and flash recording
Audio Description: An Art Form In Its Own Right - Mandy Redvers-Rowe
“Blind theatre-maker and performer Mandy Redvers-Rowe is on a campaign to get Audio-Description (AD) accepted as an art form in its own right. She talks about approaches to creating the additional description that is offered on TV and via headphones at the theatre, as well the range of approaches that incorporates AD, or integrates it, or plays with it, to challenge our perceptions.”
Disability Drives Innovation - Shira Ovide
This article dives into the history of the audiobook to show how many inventions – from Siri to the computer chip – come from products originally designed for people with disabilities. As she explains, this framing flips the script on how people think of technology and product design.
BAX Tech, Production, and Access Guide for Resident and Grant Artists - Brooklyn Arts Exchange
A technical guide to virtual presentation and digital media in performance and education at BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange For 2020/21 BAX Space Grant artists and Artists in Residence (AIRs). It includes what is available to artists for their performance or presentation, and a collection of accessibility practices/resources
BAX Tech, Production, and Access Guide for Teaching Artists - Brooklyn Arts Exchange
A technical guide to virtual presentation and digital media in performance and education at BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange for 2020/21 BAX teaching artists. Technical, production, and access options and tools impact how your students’ performances will be experienced. We encourage you to begin building performances in terms of the capacities and possibilities of these options. We welcome you and your students to compose, build, choreograph, script, and perform with these options.