Audience: Sight loss

Practical help: Film

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Here’s everything you need to know about watching films in cinemas, on DVD and Blu ray discs if you’re blind or partially sighted.

Equality Guide

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The aim of this guide is to give you practical ideas about how to increase diversity in both those who experience the arts (audiences) and those who participate in making art (creators).

Do’s and Dont’s of Designing for Accessibility

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The dos and don’ts of designing for accessibility are general guidelines, best design practices for making services accessible in government. Currently, there are six different posters in the series that cater to users from these areas: low vision, D/deaf and hard of hearing, dyslexia, motor disabilities, users on the autistic spectrum and users of screen readers.

Working with Blind and Partially-sighted Colleagues

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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

An Accessible Arts Marketing Guide

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Explore 20 simple ways to make your marketing more accessible. Accessibility most directly helps disabled and older people but, in fact, all audiences benefit from inclusive design: people watching videos on noisy trains need subtitles, simple use of English helps those who don’t use it as their first language, and clear design aids readability for … More

Accessible Communication Formats

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To reach all your audience, you need to make effective use of accessible communication formats (also known as alternative formats). A guide to developing and reviewing strategy for producing information in accessible formats.

Guidance on Making Websites Accessible

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When websites and web tools are properly designed and coded, people with disabilities can use them. However, currently many sites and tools are developed with accessibility barriers that make them difficult or impossible for some people to use. Making the web accessible benefits individuals, businesses, and society. International web standards define what is needed for … More