Accessible Information Services

Personalised Symbol Content Design

Many people in the UK with learning impairments and literacy difficulties are developing skills to enable them to live more independently, to have more fulfilling lives and to achieve a degree of economic independence. There has also been a change in attitude towards people with learning impairments, particularly in looking at what they can do rather than what they cannot do. Key to their success and independence is providing information and enabling communication in accessible form. This has resulted from past legislation and actions, for example the closure of large, long-stay care institutions and the Disability Discrimination Act.

The UK's Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) places an obligation on all organisations to ensure that any services they provide for members of the public are extended equally to people with disabilities, including those who have difficulty in reading or understanding the meaning of words.

Widgit provide a personalised translation service that can provide tailored and unique symbol support to your website that will not only meet the specifications you give us, but also assist you to meet the targets set out by the DDA.

If your organisation is producing written materials, signage or electronic media, you could vastly improve your audience’s understanding of its content, and make significant advances towards compliance with the various accessibility guidelines, by supporting your text with Widgit Symbols.

There are many ways that our Accessibility Team can support your organisation, these include:

• Helping you choose the most appropriate language
• Applying the best use of symbols for your audience
• Taking on design work to produce brochures, leaflets and formal documents
• Providing symbols to design companies in a variety of formats
• Creating new symbols

If you would like to discuss a project with a member of the Accessibility Team, please contact symbols@widgit.com

There is also further information available to download in the
Accessible Information Services Brochure (PDF)