Easy Read
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Inclusion starts with Easy Read
Get best-practice Easy Read, codesigned by people with lived experience of communication disability and reading support needs.
Easy Read helps more people:
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learn about your services and events
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participate in your programs
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understand your product
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have choice and control.
Reach more readers with Easy Read.
Affordable service
We offer Easy Read services at an affordable price. Our mission is for every organisation to share information that is accessible for people with reading support needs. By removing cost-related barriers, more Easy Read can be created, allowing more people to exercise their right to information access.
Express delivery
The UNCRPD states that people with communication disability have the right to receive written information in alternative formats without delay. That’s why we deliver codesigned Easy Read books within 5 business days, helping organisations reach more readers in a timely manner.
Informed by research
We use an evidence-based approach and speech pathology expertise to create Easy Read documents that are clear, engaging, and effective for people with a range of literacy support needs. Our Easy Read books use best-practices to help people with different communication access needs to read and understand.
Codesigned
At Embrace Access, Easy Read projects focus on the access needs and perspectives of people living with reading support needs. We design our Easy Read books with people who have lived experience. For example, First Nations peoples, seniors, neurodivergent people and people with CALD backgrounds.
Codesign
At Embrace Access, we don’t just create Easy Read documents — we collaborate with people with disability to choose words, images, and content that reflect real experiences and disability access needs. This approach balances power, amplifies disabled voices, and ensures communications are genuinely inclusive for people with reading support needs.​
Meet the team
Who benefits?
In Australia, 44% of people have low English literacy (ABS, 2013).
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Easy Read can promote the inclusion of:
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people with cognitive-communication differences
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people with mental health support needs
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culturally & linguistically diverse people
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seniors and people with Dementia
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people with intellectual disability
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people with learning disability
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many neurodivergent people
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many D/deaf people
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visual learners.
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Accessible information is a human right.
Tim Wedding,
National Disability Insurance Agency
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"We are extremely happy with the process and the levels of communication between our Agency and Embrace Access. Ruby is an excellent communicator and is super responsive to feedback and also keeping to timeframes. This has meant that our projects have been delivered on time, and to a very high standard with minimal to no rework required."​
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Children and Young People with Disability Australia (CYDA)
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"Having someone you can rely on to create (and adapt) easy read documents for a big program in a timely manner is such a huge relief, especially when you're juggling everything that a complex program requires."
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Lakshmi Neelakantan
The University of Melbourne
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"Professional, responsive, and so skilled! Ruby was fantastic to work with. We engaged Embrace Access to create a plain language version of a mental health and wellbeing research survey for adolescents. All of our revisions were also addressed in a timely fashion. Highly recommend Ruby and Embrace Access!"​
Easy Read or Easy English?
What's the difference?
Our Easy Read follows a Grade 4 reading level and uses the same best-practice features as Easy English, like clear images, simple words, accessible fonts, and plenty of white space. We are committed to codesign and usability testing. Every Easy Read document we produce is shaped by years of experience working alongside people with diverse reading support needs.
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Tagged PDFs
Our Easy Read documents are delivered as tagged PDFs to comply with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines or WCAG 2.2 level AA and PDF/UA. In most cases, we are proud to achieve level AAA compliance. These international standards are set by W3C helping websites to be accessible to people with disability. The Australian government is mandated to prepare web content that meets WCAG 2.2 Level AA standards.
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