Demanding Description.

The article discusses the moral and legal issues in the efforts to describe artworks so that blind and low-vision persons can access them online through a screen reader. Also cited are the lawsuits filed against art galleries in New York in 2019 due to the absence of alt text descriptions in their o...

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Published in:Art in America Vol. 108; no. 2; pp. 32 - 35
Main Author: Watlington, Emily
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Published: Penske Business Media, LLC Feb2020
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