Visual arts play an important role in cultural life and provide access to social heritage and self-enrichment, but most visual arts are inaccessible to blind people. Researchers have explored different ways to enhance blind people's access to visual arts (e.g., audio descriptions, tactile graphics). However, how blind people adopt these methods remains unknown. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 15 blind visual arts patrons to understand how they engage with visual artwork and the factors that influence their adoption of visual arts access methods. We further examined interview insights in a follow-up survey (N=220). We present: 1) current practices and challenges of accessing visual artwork in-person and online (e.g., Zoom tour), 2) motivation and cognition of perceiving visual arts (e.g., imagination), and 3) implications for designing visual arts access methods. Overall, our findings provide a roadmap for technology-based support for blind people's visual arts experiences.

翻译：视觉艺术在文化生活中扮演着重要角色，为人们提供接触社会遗产和自我充实的途径，但大多数视觉艺术对盲人而言难以接触。研究人员探索了多种增强盲人接触视觉艺术的方式（如音频描述、触觉图形），然而盲人如何采用这些方法仍不明确。我们对15位盲人视觉艺术爱好者进行半结构化访谈，以了解他们如何参与视觉艺术作品以及影响其采用视觉艺术接触方法的因素。我们进一步通过后续问卷调查（N=220）验证访谈见解。本文提出：1）当前面对面及在线（如Zoom导览）接触视觉艺术作品的实践与挑战；2）感知视觉艺术的动机与认知（如想象力）；3）设计视觉艺术接触方法的启示。总体而言，我们的研究结果为基于技术的盲人视觉艺术体验支持提供了路线图。