Global Accessibility Awareness Day top tips

Less Obvious Tips for Better Access at Your Arts Events. So you’re putting on an accessible arts event. You’ve considered all the basic access requirements: you’ve booked interpreters, printed large print hand-outs, uploaded the audio description to your audio guides, and made sure the accessible toilet isn’t full of buckets and mops – what else … More

Creating accessible documents

Writing with accessibility in mind means that you are trying to ensure that your content can be read and understood by as wide an audience as possible. This factsheet presents some helpful tips on improving the accessibility of your publications, for both print and reading online. It focuses primarily on producing accessible material using Microsoft … More

5 Ways Your Venue Can Do More For Mental Health

The cinema can be a place to find escapism and solace when struggling with mental health. Mental health is sometimes harder to be aware of for venues than physical disability, but there are still ways to be considerate, welcoming and sensitive. To coincide with World Mental Health Day on 10 October, the ICO spoke to Mickey Fellowes from HearFirst about how your venue can do more to … More

Wychavon Rural Cinema Toolkit

A Guide to setting up your own rural cinema screenings. This document will cover the following topics to help you get started: • Models of operation • Licensing • Accessing films • Ticketing • Marketing • Programming & presentation • Other critical success factors • Equipment

Planning and Access for Disabled people: A Good Practice Guide

The primary objective of this guide is to ensure the planning system in England successfully and consistently delivers inclusive environments as an integral part of the development process. An inclusive environment is one that can be used by everyone, regardless of age, gender or disability.

Working with Blind and Partially-sighted Colleagues

Sometimes it can be difficult to understand how someone with sight loss is able to do certain things in the workplace, for example, read documents or share written information. What do you do if you want to ask someone about their sight loss, but don’t want to offend? How can you better understand how a … More

Alzheimer’s Society – The Dementia Guide (YouTube)

The dementia guide is for anyone who has recently been told they have dementia. This could be any type of dementia, such as Alzheimer’s disease, vascular dementia or mixed dementia. It will also be useful to close friends and family of someone with dementia, as it contains information for anyone taking on a caring role.