Design and Disability at V&A Museum
Design and Disability is a major exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London celebrating design for and by disabled people. Spanning DIY inventions, grassroots organising, and individual contributions from disabled, deaf, and neurodivergent practitioners, it showcases the shaping of social change from the 1940s to the present day.
In keeping with this ethos, the exhibition offers a wide range of accessibility features, including a British Sign Language (BSL) video tour, an audio tour, audio descriptions and a dedicated Braille guide. The exhibition captions are written in short, accessible sentences and set in Zed Text Semi-Wide and Zed Icons. Section titles are shown in CirrusCumulus.
Zed Text was developed and tested in collaboration with visually impaired readers to ensure optimal legibility, with inclusivity at its core. Zed Icons, a companion typeface, provides over two thousand symbols designed to transcend language barriers. The accompanying Braille guide is also set in Zed Text and incorporates Braille characters informed by research into tactile readability.
