Projects: MCA Chicago

Website Accessibility for MCAChicago.org

A desktop browser window open to the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago homepage. The design is clean and minimalist, dominated by a huge black "MCA" graphic across the top left and center. On the left side is a vertical navigation menu with the links Visit, Calendar, Exhibitions, Programs, Collection, Learn, Publications, Support, About, Buy Tickets, and Shop. Across the upper-right area are museum details, including "OPEN TODAY 10 am-5 pm," address information, ticket and membership links, and a search option. Below the large logo is a row of event cards with blue category labels like "TODAY," "THIS WEEK," and "NEXT WEEK," listing exhibitions, screenings, talks, and dates. Near the bottom, a large blue underlined heading reads "Current Exhibitions," followed by partially visible exhibition image thumbnails.
MCA Chicago

PAC worked with MCA Chicago and Tomas Celizna Studio on MCAChicago.org’s redesign, providing accessibility training, design and development support, a WCAG 2.0 evaluation, and the Coyote Project workflow that enabled visual descriptions for thousands of images and a public description layer.

A Scavenger Hunt Powered by Coyote

A close-up of a person with light skin tone holding a black smartphone in one hand. On the phone screen is a vivid magenta interface for "COYOTE," associated with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. The screen reads "YOU ARE CORRECT!" and shows "CLUE 2/8," along with a black-and-white image and a large "NEXT CLUE" button. Smaller text at the bottom includes timing and progress information. The background is softly blurred and colorful, with pastel blocks of green, yellow, blue, purple, and orange.
MCA Chicago

With support from the Knight Foundation, PAC collaborated with MCA Chicago on A Scavenger Hunt Powered by Coyote, improving the hosted open-source Coyote platform and creating a public web-based game that used image descriptions as playful interpretive clues.

The Coyote Project

The stage of a darkend theatre full of rows of white table tops and 12 people with light to medium skin tone seated at them working on laptops, some alone, and some in groups of two. The room is dimly lit with black stage curtains and equipment on our left, and auditorium seating and wooden wall panels on our right. Cables run across the floor and the tables are full with backpacks, drinks, and keypads.
MCA Chicago

PAC partnered with MCA Chicago to create The Coyote Project, a visual description workflow and hosted platform that enabled museums and cultural organizations to author, review, approve, and publish image descriptions and alt text across their digital products.

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