There are a thousand ways for your business to be accessible and inclusive to your customers with disabilities. Want to know the great news? Many of these accessibility offerings are free.
Making small changes to your business to ensure that your disabled community can engage with your business is going to increase revenue for you, support your corporate social responsibility and most importantly break down the community access barrier that people with disabilities are currently facing.
1. Clear Pathways
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Ensuring all pathways throughout your business are clear and accessible for persons that utilise mobility aids is important and a very simple way to make your space accessible. For example: ensuring there is enough space between tables for people to make their way through in hospitality venues.
2. Quiet section
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Having a quiet section in your space for those with sensory sensitivities means that those customers can engage without anxiety or overstimulation. Dimming the lights in a section, turning down the music, distancing a table from others and keeping overcrowding at a minimum is a fantastic way to achieve this.
3. Charging Stations
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If you have a power point socket in your business, you are accessible! Many people that have power wheelchairs may need to charge on the go. Having a clear space next to a power point means they can charge up while they engage with your services. Many people with disabilities also use various forms of assistive technology that will also need to be charged on the go.
4. Pureed Food
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The vast majority of hospitality venues out there have a variety of blending/pureeing/processing apparatus to make their food. Providing the ability to Puree food off the menu means that those customers of yours that have dysphagia (difficulty swallowing) can dine and enjoy the beautiful food at your venue.
5. Closed Captions on TV
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This has got to be the easiest way to make yourself accessible. Got a TV in your venue? Step 1: Turn on your TV; Step 2: Turn on Closed Captions; Step 3: That’s it - you’ve now made your venue accessible for the entire deaf community.
6. Clear & Pictured Descriptive Signage
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Putting up clear, easy to read signage throughout your venue is going to make your space more accessible to those in your community with vision impairments and language barriers. Displaying signage with descriptive pictures means that people who are unable to read or communicate through pictures stories will be able to understand what you’re displaying.
