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According to recent study, there are almost 10 million disabled citizens in Great Britain alone. One of the most helpful acts allotted for them is the Disability Discrimination Act or the DDA. Basically what it does is allow them to live life like normal people do such as special tours in museums, libraries, and other public and private places that they want to visit in group or alone. Most of these establishments however find it a challenge to provide such service to them because one: it’s expensive, two: time consuming, and three: they lack personnel to guide them.

Great thing we have 360 degree virtual tours available today!

 

Not just our disabled friends can enjoy this digital platform; anyone can absolutely enjoy 360 degree virtual tours of different places. Although this type of medium is not mandatory, there are plenty of the historical places today that have 360 degree virtual tours. Virtual Free Sites for example offer about 300 museums all over the world that you can visit interactively online.

Here are some case studies we found on eZine:

 

•The Canal Museum in Kings Cross, London have a Victorian Narrowboat as part of their collection. The limited space inside the boat meant that people with mobility issues were not able to see inside the boat. The boat itself as an item of historical interest could not be altered to meet these requirements, so in order to gain DDA compliance, The Canal Museum commissioned a kiosk virtual tour to run outside the boat. The virtual tours give disabled visitors the chance to thoroughly explore inside the boat.

•A prominent aircraft museum needed a way to display the interior of a 1930's British racing aircraft, the Percival Mew Gull, to disabled and non-disabled visitors to the museum. The craft itself is displayed hanging from the roof of the museum, so access to the single cockpit is not possible for visitors. The museum commissioned a 360 degree, interactive, high-definition virtual tour which was placed in a kiosk by the exhibit, thereby giving all visitors, both disabled and non-disabled, the opportunity to thoroughly explore the inside of the cockpit, and see for themselves what the original pilots would have seen.

 

 

The 360 degree virtual tour has not only help our disabled friends but also the whole industry as a whole.

 

Reference: http://ezinearticles.com/?Virtual-Tours-and-the-Disability-Discrimination-Act-(DDA)&id=1571489