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- Title
L'offre culturelle française à l'épreuve de la cécité: étude de cas de l'accessibilité au musée.
- Authors
Reichhart, Fréderic; Lomo, Aggée
- Abstract
Over the last thirty years, access to culture for blind and partially blind people in France has improved hugely. Based on analysis of websites and institutional documents and observations of access initiatives and activities, this article concentrates, from a sociohistorical perspective, on the emergence and development of access to cultural spaces and artefacts, more specifically on the analysis of the structures and components of accessibility initiatives which render culture accessible to blind people. We show that improvements in accessibility come, on the one hand, from disability associations who have campaigned for better access and on the other from institution- and state-driven access policies. Our detailed analysis of museum access for blind and partially blind people shows that as well as being able to locate, enter and move around buildings, blind people are increasingly given access to a wide range of cultural services.
- Subjects
FRANCE; BLIND people; SOCIOHISTORICAL analysis; CULTURAL rights; ENTERTAINERS; DISABILITIES
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 2019, Vol 8, Issue 6, p6
- ISSN
1929-9192
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15353/cjds.v8i6.577