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• Link to our blog: Accessibility guide for inclusive university events
• Download a PDF: Easy read accessibility guide (PDF, 3.6 MB)
• Link to a PDF : Inclusion and Sharing Best Practice for Academic Events Facilitation: WAARC Reflections on the ‘Critical Neurodiversity Studies: Directions / Intersections / Contradictions’ Conference  (at Durham University) (PDF 497.64 KB)

We want to normalise inclusive events. Our resources seek to address an overarching goal: to ensure that access is embedded, rather than treating access as an afterthought or as a response. Access is not only pragmatic: it is an intellectual phenomenon:

• Daniel P.Jones and Lauren White  published a blog on the  entitled . 

• Ryan Bramley (Education) and WAARC's Kirsty Liddiard, in collaboration with Sheffield-based company Paper, Beth Evans (SUBTXT Creative) and Josh Slack (Inertia Creative), won the ±¬ÁÏTV Knowledge Exchange and Impact Awards 2025 in the Outstanding Partnership or Impact in Creativity/Culture/Society category for their projects,  and  Poor quality, missing, and/or lagging captions lead to Deaf audiences feeling excluded from cinematic experiences. In response, these projects explored caption quality and accessibility, which resulted in the two short films above, as well as evidence submission to the British Film and High-End Television Inquiry and collaboration with Paramount Pictures to explore implementation of the project’s  into future UK releases. ;  

• Antonios Ktenidis's sets out some ideas and principles relating to anti-ableist pedagogy which are relevant to curating accessible events - available to read