• YOUR leader Comment (Disability rights have been granted – then routinely ignored, July 20) is spot on, they are not just ignored but flouted.

Elsewhere in the newspaper it was reported that some councillors went on a walk with blindfolds. This is reminiscent of TV’s racist The Black and White Minstrel Show (1958-1978).

If they want to know what it is like to be visually impaired let them talk to us who are and not pretend they are. I find such behaviour grossly offensive.

There is, however, a growing movement of those of us who are disabled no longer to accept the denial of our rights. We have a “disability oversight panel” chaired by councillors Larraine Revah and Kemi Atolagbe which is beginning to address some of the grossest issues of disablism.

We also have a band of councillor “champions”. The one for visual impairment is Sylvia McNamara. Rather than the council admonishing restaurants, it should look much nearer home. There are many examples raised at the disability oversight panel of council gross disablism whereby officers make things worse.

Two of my recent examples include a threat to tow away my car because I could not upload on the council website a document proving I lived where I said I did.

Currently I am being refused a blue badge because I cannot upload medical documents with evidence of my various medical conditions. Nowhere is the council addressing the issue of internet access for disabled and other residents.

The Equality Act 2010 requires “reasonable adjustments” to be made. In both my cases I suggested an officer visit my home and examine and photocopy documents on their phones. This was rejected. Both cases were purely bureaucratic and did not have any financial implications, say like a financial benefit.

The council needs to address its own widespread disabalism rather than point its fingers at others. Hopefully the disability oversight panel will do this.

MICK FARRANT, NW5