Accessibility Tools & Verbal Description Training Survey

Developed by Art Beyond Sight Museum Education Institute

2011 Art Beyond Sight/Art Education for the Blind, Inc.

Training participant:
Name: _______________________________________________ ____
Title/Museum Department: ____________________________________
Is this your first accessibility tools/verbal description training?

Yes No

Training Experience
1. Now that youve participated in the Accessibility Tools and Verbal Description
Training, how would you rate your agreement with the following statements?
Strongly
Disagree

Disagree

Agree

Strongly
Agree

a. This training was a valuable experience.

b. The training provided an opportunity for

me to practice verbal description skills.
c. The immediate feedback from blind
visitors was valuable.
d. The training demystified accessibility
tools and special learning tools for
people with vision loss.
e. I understand how touch elements can be
used/combined with other learning tools
to create a mental image of a work of art.
f. I understand how reenactment can be
used/combined with other learning tools
to create a mental image of an artwork.
g. I understand how verbal description can
be used to create a mental image of a
work of art.
h. I feel more comfortable about adapting
my teaching/tour approaches to include
visitors with vision loss.

2. What questions do you still have about using touch, sound, drama, verbal description

and art studio methods to make your museums collection accessible?

3. What do you see as a barrier that will prevent you from putting the ideas presented

during this workshop into practice?

Action Plan/Accessibility Pilot

4. How would you rate your comfort level doing the following (if this is a part of your role

at the museum)?

a. Practicing and refining verbal description

tours with a blind visitor or a group.
b. Adding touch elements (props, art-process
materials, etc.) to verbal description tours
c. Adding reenactment to your verbal
description tour.
d. Engaging visually impaired audience in a
discussion
e. Revising your verbal descriptions after
receiving your audience feedback

Uncomfortable

Somewhat
Uncomfortable

Somewhat
Comfortable

Comfortable

5. What is the likelihood that you will volunteer to be a part of the museums program for

visitors with vision loss in the coming year?

Unlikely

Somewhat
unlikely

Somewhat
likely

Likely

Rant & Rave

6. What was the most meaningful aspect of this training for you?

7. What would you change about the training?