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Let's make it accessible

Let’s make it accessible has been written to help you and your colleagues develop a strategy to meet the needs of your disabled customers. We hope that it will encourage the adoption of good practice across the public sector and will promote a more uniform standard of service of which we can all be proud.

It is also available as in PDF format [1300kb] and plain text [200kb]

Contents

Improving customer service

Let’s make it accessible

The Disability Discrimination Act

People who need information in alternative formats  

Language issues 

Accessible formats 

Categories of information

Information which should be given priority 

Developing a strategy to help you 

Checklist 

Typesize and legibility

Case studies 

Comparative costs and turn-around times

Useful sources of advice

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