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Access Hound

Museum Accessibility

Grow Audiences By Improving Inclusion

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What We Offer

Website / Mobile App Accessibility Improvements

Refine and future-proof your website and mobile app to meet WCAG standards, reaching legally compliance and the spirit of the laws.

Audio Description Production and Review

Professional production and review by experts with real lived experience of vision loss, fixing workflows and eliminating backlogs.

Physical Site Evaluations

Our accessibility audits focus on finding opportunities to increase inclusion while also surfacing barriers, prioritized responses, and clear action plans.

Robust Customized Training

Hands-on training and workshops are available to build your team's accessibility literacy and skills, from fundamentals to advanced AD techniques.

Tailored Software Solutions

We create white-label software solutions to improve or replace current content management issues or unsupported hardware, such as Durateq.

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Two brown-skinned young women stand near a small bronze sculpture of a Japanese Zero plane on a pedestal, with a painted version of the same plane on the wall behind them. The woman on the left, in an orange safety vest with a camera strapped to her chest and long black hair in a high bun, holds an audio-recording device toward the second woman. The woman on the right, with sunglasses pushed up on her head and dark hair in a ponytail, listens intently to the audio description playing about the plane.
Access Hound researcher Kira Swearingen, left, works with a low-vision research participant at one of Pearl Harbor National Memorial's museums, testing Audio Description of a tactile model of a Japanese Zero airplane at the Honolulu site.

We train staff, fix workflows, and eliminate backlogs.

Describing: A horizontal color photograph showing three white men standing near a museum display. Description: Access Hound's Matt Bullen, center, with short gray hair, stands talking with two young men, one to his left and one to his right, both holding white canes, indicating that they are blind. Bullen holds an audio recorder to capture their comments as he talks with them about their museum surroundings. Behind the group is a wall with a partially obscured display that reads 'A Glacier Story,' with another wall decoration saying, 'The Cadillac Hotel.'
Matt Bullen of Access Hound, center, talks with two research participants who are blind about the exhibits at the Klondike National Historic Site museum in Seattle, WA.

“We are really trying to get to the core of what our shared stories are … and the complexity of these stories, and then how they shape our national identity … and include everybody in the public discourse.”

Brett Oppegaard portrait is shown. He is a white male in his mid-50s, with medium-length brown hair, and a smile on his face.
— Dr. Brett Oppegaard
Executive Director, Access Hound
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29%

Of adults in the U.S. have a disability, more than 1 in every 4 people

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8,800

Lawsuits about inaccessibility of public places filed just in 2024

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95+ Percent

Of websites in the world have significant accessibility issues

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200+

Public attractions currently using our AD production software and mobile apps

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