The Hepworth Wakefield
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A Changing Places toilet for The Hepworth Wakefield

The Hepworth Wakefield was initially contacted by Changing Places campaigner Alison Beevers in 2016, who visited with her family to talk to […]

South East Museum Development Programme
Exhibitions, Special Educational Needs and Disabilities in Schools and SEND families

Special Schools and Museums Toolkit: A Practical Guide to Accessible and Inclusive Museum Experiences

This toolkit is developed by South East Museum Development Programme in support of Arts Council England. It contains practical advice and case […]

Sensing-Culture
Accessibility and Inclusive Practice, Multi-sensory, Special Educational Needs and Disabilities in Schools and SEND families

Sensing Culture: Resources and Information supporting blind or partially sighted visitors

Sensing Culture has been a three-year multi-partner project with the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) as the lead partner, and […]

Disability Co-operative Network
Accessibility and Inclusive Practice

Creating Accessible Conferences and Presentations

Accessible Conference Guidance These guidelines and tips come from Government Digital Service: https://accessibility.blog.gov.uk/2018/03/13/advice-for-making-events-and-presentations-accessible/ Evacuation Plans What evacuation plans do you have in […]

Accessibility and Inclusive Practice, Resources, Setting up a Disability Advisory Group

Setting Up a Disability Advisory Group: Horniman Museum and Gardens

The external Access Advisory Group (AAG) at the Horniman Museum and Gardens has been running since 2007. In 2013 we re-recruited a […]

cropped sinks in public toilets
Accessible and Changing Places Toilets

AROUND THE TOILET: A research project report about what makes a safe and accessible toilet space (2018)

This new report was published in May 2018 and written as part of the AHRC funded Connected Communities project: ‘Around the Toilet’. […]

Accessibility and Inclusive Practice

I Need Straws: The importance of the availability of plastic straws on request

There has been a great deal of discussion about banning single use plastic straws to reduce waste and toxins in our seas […]

Social media symbols in a mindmap
Accessibility and Inclusive Practice, Digital, Social Media, Social Media

Inclusive Social Media Content

The importance of inclusive social media messaging: Inclusive social media messaging is vital for any organisation in its communications to its employees, […]

Eureka Museum
Exhibitions, Multi-sensory, Projects, Special Educational Needs and Disabilities in Schools and SEND families

Feeling The Future – Access To Arts and Culture For People with Visual Impairments Trizia Wells, Inclusion Manager at Eureka! The National Children’s Museum

Feeling the Future: Access to Arts and Culture for People with Visual Impairments tells how Eureka! has developed a series of sculpture […]

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Dyslexia Adult Network News: No 7 Spring 2018

Website www.dan-uk.co.uk                      Twitter @DyslexiaAdult Email via website www.dan.co.uk OR join our jiscmail list www.jiscmail.ac.uk/dyslexia-adult-network-dan THIS 7th EDITION OF NETWORK NEWS […]

Accessibility and Inclusive Practice, Digital, Social Media, Social Media

Redesigning Pinterest for better access

Very interesting article regarding the redesign of Pinterest for use as a desktop and as an app to be more inclusive for […]

Digital, Social Media, Social Media

How to create alternative-text on images posted on twitter

These are instructions for creating alternative text on your images when posting on twitter. https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/picture-descriptions

Vocaleyes
Accessibility and Inclusive Practice, Audio-Visual Equipment

Vocaleyes: Guidelines for Digital Accessibility

Guidelines for Digital Accessibility (including Audio Description on film): 
http://vocaleyes.co.uk/services/museums-galleries-and-heritage/resources/guidelines-for-digital-accessibility-film/

See also Stagetext guidelines for adding captions to increase further access: https://www.musedcn.org.uk/2017/11/19/captioning-your-films-and-videos-stagetext/

Vocaleyes
Accessibility and Inclusive Practice

Vocaleyes: Guidelines for making your conference presentation more accessible to blind and partially sighted people

https://vocaleyes.co.uk/services/resources/guidelines-for-making-your-conference-presentation-more-accessible-to-blind-and-partially-sighted-people/

Accessible and Changing Places Toilets

Why Are Changing Places Toilets important? The Art of exLOOsion by Alison Beevers – Retford Changing Places Campaign (facebook)

You visit an Art Gallery. You may visit the gallery café or the gallery shop. You may also visit the loos, after […]

Changing Places
Accessible and Changing Places Toilets

Changing Places toilets information for museums and heritage organisations

DCN has worked with families and the Changing Places Consortium to support museums and organisations to increase the number of Changing Places […]

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Report Launch: Neurodiverse voices: Opening Doors to Employment – WACReport

This is a groundbreaking report by the Westminster AchieveAbility Commission.  We are proud to be associated and quoted with this important report […]