Summary of Good Practice Recommendations

All parties have a responsibility to:

• meet legal obligations related to the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (Cth) and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

• follow the principles of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)

• identify and remove access barriers

Organisations have a responsibility to:

• develop and implement a Disability Action Plan

• plan and budget for accessibility

• discuss access requirements and costs with creatives (where the person is comfortable doing so)

• seek advice from d/Deaf and Disabled advisors when making their spaces and programs accessible

• consult and collaborate with people with lived experience

• include accessibility and disability awareness in training and inductions

• give everyone the opportunity to identify their access requirements

• discuss access in projects from planning to completion

• implement equitable application processes, see Equitable Application Processes

• pay d/Deaf or Disabled creatives commensurate with industry standards

• separate artist fees from access costs

• allow flexibility in processes, systems and deadlines

Artists have a responsibility to:

• consider accessibility in the early stages of making work

• contribute to the creation of accessible work when working with organisations

• advocate for organisations to support access provisions

• make their work accessible when presenting it independently and online

• outline their access requirements and costs when working with organisations (where comfortable doing so)

• separate their artist fee from access costs when preparing their own budgets