Community

Show your commitment to people with disability by improving the accessibility and inclusivity of your business, event or venue.

Engage and involve

Consult people with disability and seek their feedback to continuously improve your service.

Use resources like the Australian Government’s Good Practice Guidelines for better engagement and consultation.

Support carers

Participate in the NT Companion Card program, which allows carers of people with high support needs to attend events and venues for free.

Become an affiliate and promote that you accept the card.

Read more about the NT Companion Card.

Accessible communication

Improve communication by making your content accessible and inclusive.

The Australian Government Style Manual outlines key principles for design and language on their Accessible and inclusive content webpage.

Consider using:

• accessible symbols
• inclusive document layouts
• communication-friendly fonts.

Carpentaria provides training and workshops to support accessible communication. For more information, go to the Carpentaria website.

Consider converting written communication into an Easy Read format, ideal for people:

• with intellectual disability
• with low literacy
• from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

For Easy Read translation services and training to create your own Easy Read documents, go to the Inclusion NT website.

Accessibility audit

Use resources from Dementia Australia to audit your venue and make it more dementia and disability friendly.

Resources include:

• a community guide
• education toolkit
• assessment tool to assess a venue for use for people living with dementia or disability.

For more information, go to the Dementia Australia website.

Integrated disAbility Action Inc (IdA) can conduct an accessibility audit of your event or venue. For more information, go to the IdA website.

Become an accessibility champion

Disability Sports Australia offers a free online course to champion greater accessibility within local sporting clubs and leisure providers.

The course is for beginners in the disability space and provides simple steps to improve venue accessibility.

For more information, go to the Accessibility Champion webpage.

Hidden disability

Join the Hidden Disabilities Sunflower program to support customers with hidden disability.

The program offers training for employees to confidently assist customers wearing a sunflower lanyard, a symbol for hidden disabilities.

For more information, go to the Hidden Disabilities website.

Sensory resources

Carpentaria can create sensory bags for events, which include items such as:

• fidget toys
• communication aids
• simplified maps or leaflets.

For more information, go to the Carpentaria website.

Recognise excellence

Celebrate and support inclusivity by participating in the NT Disability Inclusion Awards.

To become a sponsor, nominate or to find out more, go to the NT Disability Inclusion Awards website.