Exhibit Design Relating to Low Vision and Blindness: What Visitors with Vision Loss Want Museums and Parks to Know about Effective Communication

Context

Objects need a connection and a context to the story being told by the map. Shapes of landscape features such as mountains were easily identifiable but unexpected elements such as a sailboat were not. The fact that there was train tracks on the map helped make the train an understandable object. The tracks provided context for the train but a steamboat floating in a gap between the railroad tracks didn’t adequately convey the change in transportation modes.