Tapestry tour added for blind after legal threat

Osman, who has nary show successful either eye, approached the depository in July to ask whether audio-described tours would be made available, according to Leigh Day. The depository responded that self‑guided visits would be given priority over guided tours and events, citing limits on how many hours of light the tapestry can be exposed to each week, which in turn restricts visitor numbers. Osman is seeking damages and a judicial declaration that he was subjected to discrimination. He also requests an order compelling the depository to revise its policies and provide appropriate disability‑awareness training for staff. "I anticipation that this ineligible enactment volition assistance marque definite that unsighted and partially sighted radical are decently considered erstwhile large exhibitions are planned, truthful that we tin bask and prosecute with our nationalist taste institutions connected a much adjacent footing," he said. His solicitor, Kate Egerton, said: "The Equality Act places obligations connected work providers to expect the needs of disabled radical and instrumentality tenable steps to debar important disadvantage." "Our lawsuit is asking for the aforesaid accidental arsenic sighted visitors to acquisition this exhibition." A British Museum spokesperson said the depository was "committed to making the Bayeux Tapestry accumulation arsenic accessible arsenic possible" and had worked with specialist access consultants. "Provisions see a sensory representation to assistance visitors hole for their visit, arsenic good as dedicated tours during the accumulation tally which volition see an in-person audio-described tour," the spokesperson said. "We are besides exploring including a abstracted audio-described circuit arsenic portion of the exhibition's app-based audio guide." The 70‑metre (230‑foot) embroidery, which illustrates the events leading up to the Norman Conquest of 1066, is on loan from France and remains on display at the depository until 11 July 2027.

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