
The original of this portrait of the Madonna is in Wolverhampton Museum and Art Gallery. Here it is presented in three visual forms; each of which is overlaid by a transparent tactile representation. This tactile form is depicted in the bottom right, the white representing the raised tactile elements.
As many blind and visually impaired people consider themselves as "merely being very short-sighted" they often do not take advantage of the material help available for them. The idea here was to present a single image in three versions: a straight forward reproduction, a simple high contrast colour interpretation and an ultra high contrast black and yellow version; each overlaid with the transparent tactile representation. In this manner a user would naturally be drawn to the version most appropriate for their actual sightedness, while at the same time becoming acquainted with the "language" of tactile representation.