Easy Read Translations
Australia's trusted Easy Read Service
Get best-practice Easy Read, co-designed 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.
Work with Embrace Access on your next Easy Read translation project
Cost-effective
Easy Read services
We offer Easy Read document translations 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.
Rapid and reliable 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.
Evidence-based
Easy Read practice
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.
Co-designed with people with disability
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.
Co-design
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 needs Easy Read documents?
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.
Easy Read customer testimonials
Rosemary Butera
Department of Communities & Justice, NSW
“We have had a very positive experience working with you at Embrace Access on the Easy Read version of our Complaint Management Policy Framework. You and the team have been incredibly responsive, collaborative, and thoughtful in translating complex content into clear, accessible information. The quality of the work and attention to detail has been excellent throughout the process."
Jeremy O’Halloran
Glen Eira City Council, VIC
“The Easy Read translations and process Ruby has delivered for Council have been outstanding. Regardless of size or complexity, the translations are clear, respectful, and genuinely easy to understand. Ruby and her team at Embrace Access bring invaluable lived experience to their work, generously sharing their knowledge and making what can be a complex process accessible and easy for any organisation to undertake."
Tim Wedding
National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA)
"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."​​
Lakshmi Neelakantan
The University of Melbourne
"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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