Easy-to-integrate solutions for accessible media experiences.
From complete visitor guides to mobile captioning for complex, multi-channel audio visual installations, accesskit provides the tools to create a frictionless and immersive synchronized experience for a full spectrum of accessibility, captioning and language needs.
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accesskit includes a suite of tools for your team’s entire production pipeline, from deploying complex, multi-channel, synchronized audiovisual presentations to making visitor experiences accessible to all. Save time and increase production agility while reaching a wider audience.
- Easy Integrations: Integration scripts for a number of common media players, including BrightSign, Raspberry Pi, and Mac mini: no need to replace your existing infrastructure
- No-Hassle Connection: Works entirely in the browser, so visitors need only a mobile phone to connect to your custom guide.
- Multilingual Captions and Audio: An easily manageable CMS for multiple caption and audio tracks.
- Trusted: See accesskit in action at some of New York's premiere cultural institutions, like the Shed and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
We (Sam Wolk and Patrick Steadman) started accesskit because we believe that the experience of art and media should be accessible across all sensory modalities conveniently and without restrictions. So, as artists, designers, and programmers ourselves, we were looking for ways to expand the reach of art and media presented at cultural institutions. We felt that solving the challenges of providing synchronized, accessible, real-time captions and audio was a great way to do this! In doing so, we realized that there was also a major need for affordable, reliable tools for producing complex multimedia experiences. And so, accesskit was born out of the idea that these two problems could be solved through unified solutions.
Patrick is a software engineer and writer, while Sam is a technology consultant for artists and galleries. Together, they've worked on projects for organizations like the Shed, the Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA, ArtForum, Frieze London, Frieze New York, Oda, Giphy, VidVox, Bortolami Gallery, Theta Gallery, Bodega Gallery, Andrew Kreps Gallery, the DiMenna Center, and more.