The best images of nature from the world’s most prestigious wildlife photography competition are now accessible for visually impaired users at the Natural History Museum in London. The Natural History Museum, London is taking a large, innovative step towards ensuring accessibility for all with the help of audio guided tours from tonwelt!

Wildlife Photographer of the Year, one of the Natural History Museum’s most popular annual exhibitions is proud to introduce a new integrated visitor audio-guide.  The exibitiion showcases the best images of nature from the annual international competition which this year received more than 43,000 entries from 94 countries.

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The new visitor feature includes comments from photographers and judges about select exhibition images, furthering user understanding and insight into some of the very best images of nature. In addition, the guide also features comprehensive descriptions of 30 photographs, the architecture of the room, exhibition space and the audio guide handset itself, especially created for visually impaired guests, giving them access to a high quality experience which they can share with friends and family. Experts in access issues  were engaged to write the audio scripts, which were carefully conceived to make both the exceptional nature of the photograph’s subject as well as its emotional tone vivid in the mind’s eye.
 

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The personalguide from tonwelt features a simple control panel with raised marks on the ‘5’ and ‘play’ buttons so that blind and partially-sighted visitors can easily orientate themselves on the keypad without further assistance. With the removal of this decisive obstacle, all visitors are now free to enjoy this brilliant exhibition together!