Museophile accessibility web server

MW2005 workshop material: Making Museum Websites Accessible

This is the museophile.net accessibility server. Using this service you can access various museum sites through a filter which removes extraneous page detail and images, extracting the text in a form suitable for screen readers or speech synthesisers.

For example, you can visit the following sites:

• Main Museophile Limited website: www.museophile.com
• Virtual Library museums pages (VLmp): vlmp.museophile.org & vlmp.icom.museum
• Museum discussion forums: forums.museophile.net
• Demonstration shopping website: shop.museophile.net
• Educational information: www.museophile.lsbu.ac.uk
• The Rural History Centre, Museum of English Rural Life, Reading, UK: www.ruralhistory.org
• Virtual Museum of Computing: vmoc.museophile.org
• Prof. Jonathan Bowen, Museophile Director: www.jpbowen.com
• International Council of Museums (ICOM): icom.museum
• Index of museums registered under " .museum ": index.museum

For more information, please visit www.museophile.lsbu.ac.uk/access , including MCN 2002 conference workshop material , EVA London 2003 Conference Keynote Address slides (in PowerPoint format ), Phyllis Court July 2003 talk slides (also in PowerPoint format ) and MW2004 conference workshop material .

Selected publications by Prof. Jonathan Bowen :

1. (New) Web Access to Cultural Heritage for the Disabled . In (External) James R. Hemsley , (External) Vito Cappellini and Gerd Stanke (eds.), (External) Digital Applications for Cultural and Heritage Institutions: Selected Papers from the EVA Conferences , Chapter23, pages 215-225. (External) Ashgate Publishing Limited , 2005.
   
   

2. (New) (External) Cultural Heritage Online . (External) Ability , (External) Issue 53 , pages 12-14, January 2004.
   
   

3. Web Access to Cultural Heritage for the Disabled . In James Hemsley, Vito Cappellini and Gerd Stanke (eds.), (External) EVA 2003 London (External) Conference Proceedings , University College London, UK, 22-26 July 2003, pages s1:1-11. (External) Keynote address . ISBN 0-9543146-3-8.
   
   
4. (External) Disabled Access for Museum Websites . (External) Conference poster . (External) WWW2003: The Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference , Budapest, Hungary, 20-24 May 2003.
   
   
5. Internet: A question of access . (External) New Heritage , 04.01 :58, August 2001.
   
   
6. Tackling web design & Advice on accessible website design , Museums Journal , 101 (9):41-43, September 2001.
   
   

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