Accessibility

Accessible to every visitor.

If your school district or city puts this in a lobby, it is covered by the Department of Justice’s 2024 Title II rule. Most products in this category are a bare graphics canvas, which is invisible to a screen reader and unreachable from a keyboard.

A real path through, not a canvas

The whole roster exists as actual focusable content in the accessibility tree, not just as pixels. Every entry announces the person’s name, their class, what they were recognized for, their citation, and whether a photograph exists at all.

Keyboard and switch access

Arrow keys walk the hall, Enter opens a person, Escape backs out, and the list becomes visible when it takes focus so a sighted keyboard user can see where they are.

Reach

Every control lives in the bottom band of the glass — inside the 15-to-48-inch reach range, so a visitor in a wheelchair can use all of it. The upper two-thirds is display only, which is also why we recommend a 55" panel: on a 75" portrait screen, half the glass is out of reach for everyone.

Motion

The wall respects prefers-reduced-motion and stops drifting entirely rather than merely slowing down. Nothing flashes.

Contrast and type

Names are set at roughly an inch of cap height, which is the signage rule for a ten-foot read. That is not an accessibility feature bolted on — it is the same decision that makes the wall work for everyone.

What we can’t promise from here

Angular type size and reach depend on the panel you buy and how high it’s mounted. We’ll tell you exactly where to hang it and check the numbers against your actual screen. A vendor who claims compliance without knowing your mounting height is guessing.

We are also happy to be audited. If your district has an accessibility office, put them in front of it.

87% of visitors felt the kiosks were appropriate and beneficial for the museum. Only 26% actually used one. British Galleries visitor studies, 2002–3, cited in Burmistrov, Touchscreen Kiosks in Museums, 2015

That gap shaped the whole design. A screen mounted on a wall reads as a television, so the wall demonstrates itself: while nobody is using it, a portrait is chosen, comes forward and is named, then released. It is not decoration — it is the affordance, performed.