Cultural Heritage

Cultural heritage is the inherited tangible and intangible expressions of a community’s history, including buildings, monuments, artefacts, landscapes, oral traditions, performance, ritual, and language. In digital contexts, cultural heritage work covers the documentation, preservation, reconstruction, and re-presentation of these expressions through scanning, photogrammetry, virtual reality, augmented reality, and multisensory installations. From an accessibility standpoint, cultural heritage access raises specific obligations: physical sites are often inaccessible to wheelchair users, visually-rendered VR reconstructions exclude blind and low-vision visitors, and audio guides and tours often lack captioning or sign-language interpretation. Inclusive cultural heritage design therefore pairs digitisation with audio description, captions, haptic and olfactory channels, plain language interpretation, and co-design with disabled communities.