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Autumn Newsletter
Welcome to our newsletter for autumn 2025. We hope you’re keeping cosy and enjoying the crisp days and crunchy leaves.
Oct 30


Raising Awareness Through Campaigns: Why Accessibility and Easy Read Matter
Awareness campaigns play a vital role in creating inclusion and understanding, especially for people with learning disabilities. Discover why accessible communication and Easy Read materials are key to ensuring everyone can take part.
Oct 15


Why we should include disabled people in all issues
Everyone deserves to have a say on issues that affect them. Here’s why we should include disabled people in ALL issues - not just disability issues.
Sep 25


Bringing Inclusion to Life: Translating the United Nations’ Disability Inclusion Strategy into Easy Read
In 2019, the United Nations shared its Disability Inclusion Strategy. The strategy is a plan to make the United Nations inclusive and accessible to disabled people. But why is it important that its progress is available in Easy Read?
Sep 11


Easy Read and intersectionality
In this blog post, we explore intersectionality and how it helps us to create more inclusive and effective Easy Read documents.
Aug 21


How to make your organisation accessible
Are you doing enough to make your organisation more accessible? Find out how you can level the playing field for disabled employees and people you support.
Jul 22


Why accessible information is important to disability pride
In this blog post, we will focus on the link between disability pride and accessible information. Every July, Disability Pride Month celebrates the history and achievements of disabled people, while also challenging the different types of ableism that disabled people face.
Jul 3


Making your information accessible
A guide to commissioning and sharing accessible Easy Read versions of your organisation’s information.
Jun 8


Learning Disability Week 2025: Why visibility matters
Learning Disability Week shines a light on the lives and experiences of people with a learning disability. Here's why that's so important - and how you can help.
Jun 2


Exploring the Future: Easy Read Online and AI
At Easy Read Online, we're always thinking about how to improve our services, to better support our clients with making their information...
Jul 26, 2024


Voting in the General Election - Easy Read Resources
The My Vote My Voice campaign is on a mission to encourage people with learning disabilities and autistic people to vote in the 2024...
Jun 17, 2024


Easy Read and Digital Accessibility
Digital accessibility is all about making sure online content is accessible to people with different needs...
May 16, 2024


What is the Learning Disability Register?
You can see Easy Read information about the Learning Disability Register from Mencap here: The Learning Disability Register is a list...
Jan 31, 2024


Easy Read - Is there a better way?
A report into how we can improve the quality of Easy Read material.
Jul 31, 2023


Learning Disability Week 19th - 25th June 2023
Learning Disability Week 19th - 25th June 2023
A learning disability is a reduced intellectual ability and difficulty with everyday....
Jun 8, 2023
Accessible Information for Neurodivergent People
Many of us have encountered the words ‘neurodiversity’ or ‘neurodivergent’ at some point in our lives, but many people are unsure of what they actually mean.
Mar 16, 2023


What is the difference between Learning Disabilities and Learning Difficulties?
Many people will have heard the terms learning difficulty and learning disability but it can be difficult to know what the difference...
Feb 3, 2023


Easy Read: A Brief History of Making Information Accessible for People with Learning Disabilities
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, a group of people with learning disabilities in the United Kingdom collaborated to make it easier for...
Jan 26, 2023


What is Easy Read?
Easy Read is an accessible format designed to make information easier to understand for people with learning disabilities, and others who have difficulty using standard versions of information...
Jan 18, 2023


Developing disability inclusion in your organisation and how we can help.
“On this day and every day, let us work together in finding innovative solutions to build an accessible and equitable world for all.”...
Dec 2, 2022
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