Making Your Performances Accessible to People With Hearing and Sight Loss

For many people, a meal out and a trip to see a voluntary arts performance is a night to remember. But what happens when you have hearing or sight loss and can’t follow what the performers are saying or doing? The whole experience could be a very disappointing, or perhaps something to avoid completely.

But all is not lost, this briefing gives you some simple and cost-effective ways of bringing amateur performances back to life for the 12 million people in the UK experiencing hearing and sight loss.

This briefing contains:- 

• Descriptions of Different types of Deafness 
• Descriptions of Different types of Sight Loss
• Performance Captioning
• Community Captioning
• Marketing Accessible Performances 
• Options for Increasing Accessibility 
• Further Resources 

Briefing 149: Making Your Performances Accessible to People With Hearing and Sight Loss