Designing for Accessibility

Understanding accessibility means we can build services that work for everyone, whatever their access need.

Posters

These posters, produced by Home Office Digital, show how you can make your service accessible for different access needs.

These posters give advice about how best to set out information for children, young people and adults who have additional needs: for users ...

on the autistic spectrum
of screen readers
with low vision
with dyslexia
with physical or motor disabilities
who are deaf or hard of hearing
with anxiety

The posters give advice about colour, text size and type, page layout etc.

Please click on the Downloads box to view all the posters.

Key Principles

This booklet outlines the five key principles for producing better information for disabled people.

The following five core information principles have been developed from the findings of the ODI’s review.

They are essential to underpinning good service and information design and delivery.

1. Ensure that disabled people are involved from the start

2. Provide information through a range of channels and formats

3. Ensure your information meets users’ needs

4. Clearly signpost other services

5. Always define responsibility for information provision

The five principles interrelate to reinforce each other, so ideally they should be approached as a package rather than in isolation.

They can be applied to:
• large-scale projects such as service designs, re-branding, positioning exercises and public consultations; and
• smaller information initiatives such as the design of leaflets, posters, advertisements, films, events, websites or newsletters.

It is never too late to incorporate these principles into your work.

But if you use them to drive service and information development from the outset, this will help to maximise coherence, use of resources and overall effectiveness.

Plain English

The A to Z of alternative words

Produced by the Plain English Campaign
The list contains hundreds of plain English alternatives 'to the pompous words and phrases that litter official writing'.

http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/files/alternative.pdf