Consider time and cost

Ensure you allocate appropriate time and resources to successfully design and execute your project or event.

Time

Allow time to plan or design a fully accessible activity. You should give yourself enough time to:

Obtain ethics approval if your activity needs it.
Recruit a representative sample of participants across your target cohort.
Give people with disability enough information and notice about your activity so they can prepare.
Find appropriate and accessible venues.
Arrange services to assist with accessibility.
Create accessible materials.

Allow time to run or deliver a fully accessible activity. You may need to:

Think about how your activity meets the diverse needs of your participants, especially people with disability.
Include more breaks throughout the activity and allow for the costs and resources required to support more breaks.
Communicate in different ways.
Allow time and offer different ways for participants to give feedback. You will also need time to respond to different methods of feedback.
Give yourself and your team time to create and respond to follow-up communication.

Allow budget to facilitate activity that is appropriate for and accessible to people with disability. You may need to:

Pay participants for their insight and expertise as people with disability, and pay their support people.
Employ additional team members, partners, or disability experts, including trauma-informed facilitators, disability advocates, or facilitators with disability.
Arrange accessibility services from outside your team, such as live transcription, captioning, and Auslan interpreting.
Contract services (such as auditors or recruiters) through disability or other specialist organisations.
Provide additional equipment, such as hearing loops and specialty keyboards or software.
Provide accessible materials, such as resources in Easy Read or braille.
Consider the accessibility of physical locations.