The power of co-design: Why collaboration is key in creating successful Easy Read documents

Co-design means people with disability have a key part in your accessibility project from the outset, and throughout. As Australia's trusted supplier of Easy Read documents, we include our team of advisors with lived experience on every project.

Embrace Access Director, Ruby Yee and lived experience advisor Neville discuss solutions for a review of the Aurora Energy mobile app in a focus group in Frankston, Victoria.

How do our lived experience advisors co-design Easy Read?

• highlight important topics for your Easy Read document

• identify missing information in your Easy Read document

• brainstorm meaningful and accessible images to support each sentence and represent key concepts in an inclusive way

• suggest simple, clear and accessible words and sentences that are easy for readers with low English literacy to understand.

"We've moved away from a 'testing' model and onto something more exciting, more meaningful and more powerful for creating truly accessible Easy Read documents. By hand-picking images with an advisor on our team with lived experience, I feel so much more confident about the impact the Easy Read document will have for similar readers with low English literacy." - Ruby Yee, Director and Speech Pathologist at Embrace Access.

Work with us to create best-practice Easy Read that is developed with people who represent the needs of your target audience!

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