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How to create exciting and accessible tactile tours

The key to creating successful tactile tours is preparation, treating visitors with respect and not overloading them.
6 Mar 2024 9:00
Fiona Murphy
Tactile tours. Image is a hand touching the lips of a plaster cast of the bottom half of a face.

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Francois Jacobs from Arts Access Victoria says that the inclusion of tactile tours in museums, art galleries and stage shows has been welcomed by the disability community, as it ‘can really bring a performance or exhibition to life’.

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Fiona Murphy

Fiona Murphy is an award-winning deaf writer. Her work about accessibility has appeared in The Guardian, The Saturday Paper and Sydney Morning Herald, among many other outlets. She is the founder of The Accessible Communications Collective, which teaches people about digital accessibility.

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