Museophile accessibility web server

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. Web Access to Cultural Heritage for the Disabled . In James R. Hemsley, Vito Cappellini and Gerd Stanke (eds.), Digital Applications for Cultural and Heritage Institutions: Selected Papers from the EVA Conferences , Chapter23, pages 215-225. Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2005.
   
   
2. Cultural Heritage Online . Ability, 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.), EVA 2003 London Conference Proceedings, University College London, UK, 22-26 July 2003, pages s1:1-11. Keynote address. ISBN 0-9543146-3-8.
   
   
4. Disabled Access for Museum Websites . Conference poster. WWW2003: The Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference, Budapest, Hungary, 20-24 May 2003.
   
   
5. Internet: A question of access . New Heritage, 04.01:58, August 2001.
   
   
6. Tackling web design & Advice on accessible website design , Museums Journal, 101(9):41-43, September 2001.