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ANU – Museum of the Jewish People Welcomes Visitors with Special Needs
ANU – Museum of the Jewish People Welcomes Visitors with Special Needs
The Museum of the Jewish People provides visitors with special needs with the facilities and understanding to make their visit to the museum as enjoyable and meaningful as possible.
This includes tour guides trained in guiding people with a variety of special needs.
Enjoy your visit!
For any help please contact us: Hadas Engel | hadas.e@anumuseum.org.il | 03-7457924
The Museum of the Jewish People is equipped with:
- Lift that accommodates wheelchairs
- Parking for visitors with special needs. Please contact: adiel@anumuseum.org.il 03-745-7813
- Audio guides accompanied by written texts, for hearing impaired visitors
- Exhibits at sight-level for visitors in wheelchairs
- 3D Synagogue models for people with visual impairments
- Accessible desk
- Wheelchairs on demand at desk
- Accessible cloak room
- Accessible Aroma café
- Accessible toilets fitted for people with wheelchairs
OrCam MyEye
OrCam MyEye
ANU – Museum of the Jewish People – the largest Jewish museum worldwide – is the first museum to use this new technology, that attaches to glasses, and can instantly read text from any surface.
Kindly note, we have a limited number of devices, please order at least one week in advance: tours@anumuseum.org.il
The OrCam appliances were purchased thanks to the generous donation made by the Israel Friends Association.
Accessibility Statement
Accessibility Statement
July 1, 2025
ANU - Museum of the Jewish People recognizes the importance of making both the physical and digital aspects of the public space accessible to persons with disabilities, and views this as an integral part of our service philosophy and social responsibility.
The accessibility of our website complies with the provisions of Regulation 35 of the Service Accessibility Regulations, including Israel Standard 5568 Part I - Accessibility of Internet Content, which relies on the WCAG 2.0 guidelines at Level A and AA.
The website is accessible to a wide variety of persons with disabilities and includes accessibility assistive technologies, such as:
- Website infrastructure that is accessible to keyboard users with or without screen reading software, both from a design as well as a navigation standpoint
- An accessible design that is reflected in the choice of a set of colors that meets the minimum contrast ratio between the text color and the background color
- Keyboard navigation through interactive elements that enables tracking of the keyboard focusable elements
- Keyboard navigation alone, with or without screen reading software
- Support for the most commonly used screen readers in a desktop environment, such as NVDA and JAWS, in addition to navigation with the most commonly used screen readers in a mobile browsing environment, using screen readers such as VoiceOver for IOS and TalkBack for Android
- Support for a number of browsers, including both desktop browsers and mobile browsers
- A hierarchical and organized structure of the user interface components, including the uniformity of the design, the location and the spatial organization
- An organized and consistent heading hierarchy for screen reader users
And more
Despite our efforts to oversee the input of the content, and in view of the fact that websites are by nature dynamic, there may on occasion be slight irregularities in some of the content uploaded by different content editors. This may, for example, manifest itself in the absence of suitable alternative text for images and link images.
You are welcome to provide us with any feedback that you see fit to share with us regarding the website's accessibility and usability. We will look into your inquiry and get back to you as soon as possible, up to 60 days after receiving the inquiry. Contact us: info@anumuseum.org.il
