Access Equipment & Services

Accessible Music
A resource on accessible music and emerging multimedia technologies.

Active Places Australia
Active Places is a search engine identifying physical recreation, sport and cultural activities, contacts and accessible facilities for people with a disability.

AI Media
Access Innovation Media creates innovative economic access solutions.

Assistive Listening
A guide for performing arts settings

Australian Sign Language Interpreters Association
Find an interpreter and relevant policies.

Better Hearing

Adaptive hearing technology.

Caption It
Caption It is an independent, Canberra-based company that specialises in the delivery of captioning services

Deafness Forum
Advice on best practice in captioning.

Dog Rose Trust
The Dog Rose Trust works to make all environments accessible to people with visual and other sensory impairments.

IDEAS
Provides an accessible web portal for people with disability and people with age related disability, their families, carers and other supporters to access and search for information that promotes their independence.

Independent Living Centres
This website provides a database of services, commercially available equipment and products designed to give people with disabilities more independence in their everyday lives.

Master Lifts

Media Access Australia
Media Access Australia is Australia's primary media access organisation.

Red Bee Media
Red Bee Media produce live and pre-recorded closed captions for Australian broadcast and subscription networks, DVD distributors and conferences.

SHHH (Self Help for Hard of Hearing)

Advice and information for the deaf and hearing impaired.

Sydney Opera House - Accessibility Information

Technical Aid to the Disabled
Source of advice and custom made assistive equipment

The Captioning Studio

The Substation

Vision Australia
Blindness and low vision services, including advice and provision of audio description, and tactile tours (primarily in NSW, VIC, ACT).

Web Access Guidelines
Guidelines by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC).

Word of Mouth technology
Assistive devices for the deaf and hearing impaired

International

Access Scottish Theatre
The Access Scottish Theatre guide provides audiences with information about accessible performances and access at participating venues.

Captioning and Subtitling International

 

Described and Captioned Media Program
Promotes and provides equal access to communication and learning for students who are blind, visually impaired, deaf, hard of hearing, or deaf-blind. Funded by the U.S. Department of Education and administrated by the National Association of the Deaf.

Milbat
Creates accessible and adapted technological resources for children and adults with a disability and the elderly in Israel.

Museums and Galleries in the Capital (MAGIC)

MAGIC is fourteen museums and galleries in London which provide events and facilities for deaf and hard of hearing visitors.

Preservation Brief: Making Historic Properties Accessible

Preservation How To: Making Historic Properties Accessible

Signed Performances In Theatre (SPIT)
SPIT is the leading national body for promoting British Sign Language (BSL) interpreted performances of mainstream theatre.

Stagetext

Stagetext delivers captioned performances and promotes the use of captioning in cultural venues throughout the UK.

US National Captioning Institute

Vocaleyes
Vocaleyes provides blind and vision impaired access to the arts through audio description in the UK.

VSA list of arts supplies and adaptive tools

Web Accessibility for users with intellectual disabilities

Article by the National Center on Disability and Access to Education in the US on increasing the usability of websites for those with cognitive disabilities.

World Health Organisation - ICF

The World Health Organization International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF)provides a conceptual basis for the definition, measurement and policy formulations for health and disability.

Your Local Cinema

Audio described and captioned cinema in the UK.


 

 

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