Accessibility - Information on your website about accessibility

Separate page

It is best to create a separate page on your Web site with information about accessibility. Place an easy-to-find link to this page on your homepage so that visitors can find this information without having to search very far.

Overview important information

Here is a list of important accessibility information to include on your Web site:

• Voorzieningen
• Accessibility
• Hospitality
• Admission tickets and costs
• Program and light shows
• Bringing items for medical care
• Contact details

Voorzieningen

People with disabilities often prepare extensively for a visit so that there are no surprises. A map of the venue helps with this. Make sure that stages, catering but also accessible toilets, (disabled) parking spaces and any wheelchair spaces are marked with pictograms.

Ook voor mensen met een visuele beperking is het belangrijk dat zij zich voorafgaand aan het evenement zich een beeld kunnen vormen van hoe het terrein is ingericht. Daarom is het belangrijk dat er een kaart met goede contrasten beschikbaar is, waarop de belangrijkste routes helder zijn aangegeven (van ingang naar toilet, podium, horeca etc).

Mensen die blind zijn, kunnen de kaart niet zien. Door het terrein in tekst te beschrijven kunnen zij zich toch voorbereiden. Maak als het ware een virtuele audiotour over je evenemententerrein. Bijvoorbeeld: ‘Je komt binnen en volgt het pad rechtdoor voor het podium. Het pad dat bij de ingang naar links gaat, komt eerst langs de horeca en komt vervolgens uit bij de toiletten.

Visual accessibility

To ensure that visitors who are visually impaired and therefore blind or visually impaired can also participate in an event, there are various provisions you can make. Think of things like using blind interpreters or walking routes that can be felt. On this page you will find information about the possibilities to ensure that this target group can visit your event.

Accessibility

Getting to an event easily is less obvious for visitors with physical disabilities. Therefore, provide the following information on your accessibility page, and also include it on your map of the festival site:

• Location of disabled parking spaces (car)
• Location parking area for bicycles, scooters and mobility scooters. Please indicate if there is also space for adapted vehicles such as tricycles and scooters for wheelchair users.
• Kiss & Ride, place where people can be dropped off close to the entrance
• Nearest public transportation stop and distance to entrance
• Address that people can pass on to the regional cab to be dropped off, such as the address of the kiss & ride

Hospitality

By placing menus and price lists on your Web site as accessible PDFs, people with visual impairments can hear (via their phones) what they can order and how much it costs. For some people, it is also possible to scan a QR code on site, which leads them to information read aloud.

Admission tickets and costs

Information on admission tickets and costs relevant to visitors with disabilities includes at least the answers to the following questions:

• How do you get maps?
• Do you have to buy separate tickets as a wheelchair user?
• Do you get a discount through the Gelrepas?
• What is the cost of a companion ticket?

Program and light shows

Vermeld op je website en in het blokkenschema welke onderdelen van je programma wel of niet geschikt zijn voor bezoekers met een beperking, bijvoorbeeld voor bezoekers in een rolstoel. Er is een specifiek deel van de ruimte gereserveerd voor bezoekers met een beperking? Geef dan ook aan waar deze zich bevindt.

For people with epilepsy, for example, it is important to know if there are light shows where flashing lights are used. Also mention it if there are no light shows or flashing lights, so people know they can come.

Bringing items for (medical) care

People sometimes carry things for (medical) care. For example, things for toilet use or for ventilation. Because of this, they sometimes have a large(er) bag with them, or items that are not allowed from other visitors such as bottles of water for flushing or special food. This also applies to children with disabilities. It is annoying and sometimes embarrassing to have to explain this when entering the event. Therefore, mention which items are in principle not allowed, and how people can contact you to make arrangements for exceptions.

Contact details

Make sure that (potential) visitors to your event have somewhere to go if they have additional questions about accessibility, and include phone number and email address.