Alabama News Center — Auburn students work to create more inclusive environment at Jule Collins Smith Museum

By: Ainsley Ehlers

With more than 3,000 collection objects and counting, the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art is striving to further accessibility to art through the use of alternative text.

Alternative text, also known as alt text, is a written description about a piece of artwork that provides visually impaired audiences with descriptive aids to better experience art on a digital platform.

Katelyn Zeeveld, a sophomore majoring in art history at Auburn University, has been working on the project for nearly two years, analyzing artwork from the database of the university art collection and writing alt text descriptions for each.

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