Access & Awareness
Access
Looking for an audience…?
One fifth of South Australia’s arts audiences are people with a disability.
How able are you to make your show and services welcoming and accessible?
Making your venue and services accessible is relatively easy with a few easy steps. Not only can you grow your audience, but you can gain reputational benefits by being an inclusive organisation.
To find out how you can start making what you do accessible, download a few of the checklists.
When it comes to websites, making them accessible can be a little challenging. However, to find out how you can do it, visit. www.w3.org. W3C are the international experts and have useful guidelines when it comes to making one’s website accessible.
Arts Access SA can presently provide limited assistance in helping arts and community organisations with improving their disability access. However, it is anticipated in early 2008 that we will commence providing disability access and awareness training. To express your interest, send an email and your contact details to: info@artsaccess-sa.org.au
Want to go out tonight?
If so and want to find out how accessible a venue is, search the Disability Information Resource Centre’s Access Database.
We are in the midst of building with the assistance of DIRC a brand new series of web-pages featuring regularly updated information about accessible venues which will include virtual building tours.
Access nightmares or issues?
While hoping that building and services in the arts are disability accessible and friendly, from time to time, we realise that’s not always the case. If you have a brickbat or perhaps, even a good news story about accessing the arts, please send them to: info@artsaccess-sa.org.au
Case Studies about making the Arts Accessible
During the last decade, the Adelaide Festival Centre have undertaken quite a bit of work to make their venues more accessible. Read about it here.
If you have a case study to share about making your events or buildings accessible, please send an email to: info@artsaccess-sa.org.au
Disability Access Suppliers & Services
Accessibility Equipment
Hearing Loss & Auslan
Deaf SA
262 South Tce
Adelaide SA 5000
Tel: (08) 8223 3335
Vision Impairment & Braille
Royal Society for the Blind
Knapman House
230 Pirie Street
Adelaide SA 5000
Tel (08) 8232 4777
Guide Dogs SA
Mobility & Sensory Services
251 Morphett Street,
Adelaide, SA 5000
Tel: (08) 8203 8333
Fax: (08) 8203 8332
TTY: (08) 8203 8391
Toll Free: 1800 738 855
Independent Living Centre
11 Blacks Road,
Gilles Plains SA 5086
Tel: 1300 885 886 (Cost of a local call in SA & NT) /08) 8266 5260
Fax: (08) 8266 5263
Email: ilcsa@ilc.asn.au
Companion Card
National Disability Services
Tel: (08) 8338 0733
Companion Card website
Download information on the Companion Card (Word doc)
Disability Access Audits & Auditors
Find out more information and to locate a South Australian auditor
Awareness
Arts Access SA through its communication arm is striving to keep South Australians with a disability and the arts industry aware of arts and disability projects, issues and opportunities.
Find out what’s on or add something to the what’s on listing.
Each fortnight, Arts Access SA distributes an eNews Bulletin which features a wealth of detail. As well, our volunteers produce the weekly one-hour radio show, Radio Cool which you can hear every Sunday at 1pm on Radio Adelaide 101.5FM. Read more about Radio Cool.
Access Awareness Resources
Below are some links to useful resources which can help you with making your services accessible and disability friendly. Arts Access SA thanks the organisations for granting us permission to link these sites
Accessing the Arts – thanks to Accessible Arts
A set of downloadable checklists to help make arts events more accessible for people with disabilities.
aarts.net.au/mod.php?mod=userpage&page_id=67
Universal Disability Access Symbols
A page of downloadable logos for use on promotional materials and signage
gag.org/resources/das.php
Website Accessibility
A website jam-packed with advice how to make your website comply with W3C guidelines, making your website user-friendly for people with vision impairment.
w3.org/WAI/
Do you have resources you’d like Arts Access SA to share, send an email with some information about them to: info@artsaccess-sa.org.au