Thanks for this contribution which was the only one from the MCG list. I've made a distinct point about accessibility in the report.
See you on Wednesday.
The Tate imap link isn't working by the way...
Best wishes
Bridget
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From: Marcus Weisen <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:55:41
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: helping strategic planning for culture online for children & young people
Hi Bridget,
you will probably have received info on the 'From the margins to the core?'
conference via GEM or MCG.
will be lovely to meet you on 2.12 at the Jodis.
In haste, a few thoughts below:
best,
Marcus
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Bridget McKenzie <
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> Dear friends
>
> I hope you don't mind me picking your brains, but I thought you might find
> this an interesting challenge and a chance to contribute to some important
> research. You can reply direct to me, or discuss with the list if you like,
> by 30th Nov ideally.
>
> Flow Associates is working for ACE on some research that will help the
> cultural sector plan future online provision for children & young people
> (CYP).
> It involves mapping what currently exists (or is in production) to enable
> CYP access to the arts in particular, and to culture more broadly.
> The provision we're mapping includes:
> - resources for carers and professionals who work with CYP
> - resources targeted at CYP about programmes
>
> - interactive provision, where CYP can take part in discussions or sharing
> creative work.
>
> - *direct web-based arts/culture*
> Question One: What stands out in terms of online cultural resources for CYP
> that:
>
> a) you use or recommend
>
www.tate.org.uk/imapi-Map: The Everyday Transformed, Tate Modern
Jodi Award 2006
Result: Winner
This site does what seems impossible to many people, by making modern art
(and its key concepts) accessible to blind and partially sighted people. It
is one of the few to describe collections for visually impaired people. The
images are highly contrasted and made visible to partially-sighted people.
it's outline drawings can be printed out as tactile drawings on 'tactile
printers'. The judges were unanimous in selecting the winning site, which
they agreed had yet more ground-breaking qualities and was destined to set
the standard in global best practise. The site is already the world leader
in making online collections accessible to blind and partially sighted
people.
Caro Howell, now Had of Education at Whitechapel got this off the ground -
shocked when a teacher said to a blind pupil when the class visited the Tate
'and now you will draw a dragon' whilst the rest got to see Picasso and
Matisse
British Museum for its BSL Schools Web Project.
Jodi Award Winner: 2008 Excellence in Web Accessibility
In this project young deaf people produced signed curriculum resources for
young deaf people, working with Frank Barnes School and media company
Remark.
This was an outstanding project; well thought out, carefully framed and
cleanly presented, bringing together a creative and appropriate mix of
users, artists and designers with expertise in the area of BSL.
The Jodi judges were so impressed with the way staff from Frank Barnes
school worked with Carolyn Howitt and the team from the BM, that a Jodi
statuette was also awarded to the school.
www.britishmuseum.org/learning/schools<http://www.britishmuseum.org/learning/schools_and_teachers/school_projects/bsl_project.aspx>
b) you are aware of but don’t use, or you think are not well used
>
> c) types you think are really lacking and should be provided
>
the great and shocking tragedy is that curriculum online and culture online
are very poor indeed at making content accessible to disabled children,
young people or adults. Irrespective of a raft of policies and legal duties
that should translate into a much much more pro-active attitude and
engagement with removing and not building new barriers for disabled people.
if Tate imap and BM BSL project are about all there is for young visually
impaired and young deaf people, we can truly talk of suffocating limitations
of choice. And with it wholly inaccepable levels of inequality and
opportunity.
>
> Question Two: Do you have any other views on how commissioning of culture
> online for this audience can be more strategic? For example, in terms of
> collaborative approaches to digital planning or uses of social media?
>
> none of the government or lottery funds in the cultural sector works well
for increasing accessibility of online cultural resources for visually
impaired people, deaf people, people with learning disability. Look at the
New Opportunities Digitisation Fund (£100, 000,000 around 2001-2003). What
did it deliver for disabled people? Nothing noteworthy whatsoever. Look at
how slow Culture Online was in getting to accept that accessibiliy should be
part of the agenda. Lots and lots of failed opportunities!
And all of that took place with the DDA in force!
The reason is quite simply that none of this is mandatory, that funding
criteria are so elastic that these areas of human and cultural engagement
almost always fall through the net.
Therefore, a strategic approach requires:
- ring-fenced strategic funding for this (the cultural funding system
won't like this, doesn't sound 'mainstream', but the price for not doing it
is to further entrench endemic discrimination
- make accessibility of content for young disabled people (not just
meeting Web Content Accessibility guidelines ) an essential funding
criterion
- involve young disabled people in service design
- doing one's homwework to begin with, meeting people and organisations
with expertise. Give oneself latitude for being creative.
Marcus
Marcus Weisen, Director, Jodi Mattes Trust, www.jodiawards.org.uk
> With many thanks and best wishes
>
> Bridget McKenzie
> Director, Flow Associates
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