Decentering Sight: Enhancing Accessibility for Blind and Low-Vision Audiences
Event description
- Academic events
- Campus life
- Free
- Inclusion
- Open to the public
- Professional and career development
Banner image description
The banner image on this page shows two layered horizontal sections. On top, bold white text on a black background reads: "Making Accessibility Accessible." On bottom, black text on a gold background reads: "Strategies for Writing Image Descriptions, Alt-Text and Audio Descriptions." On the righthand side is a white circle with "Dec. 5th" in bold black text.
About the event
The School of Humanities, Arts & Cultural Studies (SHArCS) and the Disability Studies (DST) B.A. program invite you to a guest lecture and workshop on accessibility and image/audio description with Ellis Lane. Lane is currently a Curatorial Assistant at the Allen Memorial Museum of Art, Oberlin College. The title of his talk will be: "Decentering Sight: Enhancing Accessibility for Blind and Low-Vision Audiences."
In this event, Lane will discuss his experience developing multisensory exhibitions, expanding tactile and digital resources, and designing accessible public programs that engage diverse audiences. He will introduce core concepts in museum accessibility, outline foundational principles of description practices, and guide participants in generating their own vivid, inclusive descriptions of visual imagery using:
- Image description (Brief textual descriptions of visual images like photographs, paintings, and illustrations)
- Alt-text (Metadata used by screen readers to describe digital images)
- Audio description (Brief oral descriptions of visual imagery, including film/video, physical environments, human movements, and theatrical scenery)
This talk is a part of the new Making Accessibility Accessible speaker series. Led by Dr. Charles Eppley, this series invites field specialists to share their expertise on accessibility with ASU staff, faculty, students, and community members. All events are free to attend. This talk is sponsored by the ASU Committee for Campus Inclusion (CCI).
Accessibility
This talk will feature live ASL interpretation, image description, and automated captioning.
