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It can't be stated too often that access is the key to most good audience development work. If you think of what you need to do as removing any barriers, intellectual, physical or simply in terms of lack of familiarity, for any potential attender or participant, you are 90% there, and planning becomes much more meaningful.
This area of the ADSE site is about access for attenders and participants who have a specific requirement, and it begins with information on access for blind and partially sighted customers, and access for deaf or hearing-impaired customers. Further access considerations will be added soon.
There are two pieces of work exploring access currently underway with funding from Arts Council England, South East - one, in partnership with the Audio Description Association (see Audio Description pages), exploring raising awareness of audio description as well as standards of delivery in the region, the other, in partnership with Stage Text (see Signed and Captioned pages), looking to increase access to captioning.
For information on either project, contact Sarah Pickthall at Arts Council England, South East (sarah.pickthall@artscouncil.org.uk) or the project leaders.
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