Training and Advice

Access2Arts offers a range of disability-led training programs and advice.

Disability Access and Inclusion Planning

Creating a Disability Access and Inclusion Plan (DAIP) will help your organisation increase disabled people’s engagement with all aspects of your organisation. DAIPs build on what you’ve already done, examine your capacity to do more and help your organisation move forward in a staged and strategic way.

Disability Access & Inclusion Training

Learn how to go beyond the bare minimum. Find out about the Social Model of Disability, examine the barriers disabled people face across the Australian arts sector, question stereotypes, myths and misconceptions about disabled people, and make a commitment to change.

A Caucasian, blonde-haired woman in a pink suit, sits at a table facing a group and talking while behind her is a screen.

Photo: Access2Arts Chief Officer, Bec, runs a training session for the exhibition staff at MOD. Museum.

Audio Description Training

Is your organisation interested in training your own in-house audio describers? Are you interested in becoming an audio describer yourself? Access2Arts developed Australia’s first professional live audio description service and are the leading national provider of live professional audio description training.

Upcoming audio description training courses for 2024:

Term 1: 5/2/24 – 29/4/24
Term 2: 8/5/24 – 30/7/24
Term 3: 5/8/24 – 8/8/24
Term 4: 29/8/24 – 21/11/24

Find more information and submit your expression of interest to join an upcoming audio description training course here.

You can learn more about audio description training in our Audio Description Training Frequently Asked Questions page here.

Consultancy and Advice

Need advice on your events, policies, action plans or communications? Want to know more about access audits and mystery shoppers? Or do you just want to get in touch with amazing disabled artists and companies? As an access expert and advocate, Access2Arts offers ongoing consultancy and advice to support arts organisations to increase access, inclusion and representation of disabled people.

It opens my eyes to the disability world. I came here knowing nothing about (the) disability world and now I feel great knowing what to do to fulfill some
people access requirements.

A WOMADelaide volunteer after our Access and Inclusion Training, 2023