Tagged with Access
Kids in Museums: Welcoming families with special educational needs and disabilities
Read these top tips from Kids in Museums on how your organisation can become more accessible and welcoming to special needs families, created in partnership with Sam Bowen, Special Needs Mum and Museum Development Officer.
Making your conference presentation more accessible to blind and partially sighted people
Many of the tips within this article will help make your presentation more inclusive generally, including for people who are not fluent in the language you speak, and people with different learning styles.
Museum and Heritage Access 2020 Survey
From March to June 2020, VocalEyes along with Stagetext and Autism in Museums, ran a survey of museum and heritage site visitors who are also users of access facilities, resources and events. Though the UK had just gone into lockdown and museums and heritage sites around the country closed to the public, the survey asked […]
7 Principles to Ensure an Inclusive Recovery
We Shall Not Be Removed has worked in partnership with Ramps on the Moon, Attitude is Everything,Paraorchestra, and What Next? to create a new guide for the arts and entertainment sectors to support disability inclusion. Our Seven Inclusive Principles for Arts & Cultural Organisations working safely through COVID-19 is designed to complement the suite of […]
Inclusive Social Media Content
Inclusive social media messaging is vital for any organisation in its comms to its employees, visitors, and customers. During the lockdown, museums have an opportunity to reach out to people and potential visitors by being inclusive in content and message.
Guide to Accessible and Responsive Street Furniture
The guide offers lots of helpful information such as: An overview of how good street furniture design and public infrastructure planning, as well as careful consideration of accessibility needs, can significantly improve the lives of people with disabilities. Important facts and figures about disability and accessibility. Did you know that, of the most common disabilities […]
Kids in Museums
The Kids in Museums resources section.
Meltdown Tracker
Meltdown Tracker helps to make mainstream services more accessible for those who may find accessing mainstream services challenging, because of sensory overload, meltdowns and shutdowns.
State of Museum Access 2018
The State of Museum Access 2018 comprises guidance to help museums create or review the information that they provide online for visitors with disabilities.
Disability Co-operative Network
The Disability Co-operative Network promotes and embeds inclusive practice in the heritage and cultural sector.
