Source: Good News Network
As a means of making art more inclusive and available to everyone, this city has just installed tactile plaques that allow blind people to “see” the many murals decorating the streets.
The plaques were recently installed throughout Chile’s capital city of Santiago. The installations feature raised reliefs of the street art, as well as braille descriptions of the work.
A downloadable app that corresponds with the plaques even has audio descriptions of the artworks.The miniature artworks will benefit the 2.8 million Chileans who have been diagnosed with some sort of visual impairment, which is about 16.7% of the population.
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