Accessible event planning checklist

Accessible Aalto event planning checklist

• Accessible Parking Spaces – accessible parking spaces should be placed close to venue entries and exits, accessible toilets, pay stations and lifts/ramps.
• Public Transportation – post local accessible routes and schedules using HSL route planner.
• Paths of Travel – provide wide, even, slip-resistant paths, without steps or barriers that lead to all the public areas of the event.
• Stages and Seating – provide a ramp for your stage, and ensure the stage is visible for someone watching from accessible seating or from a wheelchair.
• Food Services and Public Eating Areas – design food areas so that someone who needs mobility support can easily navigate them. Provide options for people using wheeled mobility devices.
• Washrooms and Temporary Toilets – provide accessible toilets or washrooms at ground level, away from crowds and sound systems.
• Rest areas and rain/wind/sun shelters – offer quiet areas and weather shelters.
• Signs – provide high-contrast signs in high and low positions, and make sure signs use fonts that are readable in all light conditions.
• Support Persons – a support person can go wherever the person they support goes. Post any admission fees for support persons in the same place general admission information is found.
• Service Animals – a person with a disability can be accompanied by their service animal to all areas available to the public.
• Training Staff and Volunteers – train staff and volunteers to welcome people with disabilities and on your festival’s accessibility features.
• Communication Supports – consider offering captioners, sign language interpreters, or individuals who can describe performances.
• Maps and Information – provide information about your festival’s accessibility features and consider people with disabilities in your emergency plans. Provide an accessibility information area. Servicemap is very practical for this.
• Other Accessibility Considerations – provide dedicated accessibility volunteers, rent/buy accessible equipment, provide accessibility information areas.
• Promote your event or party – tell people about the accessibility features in the same places you promote your event.
• Ask for Feedback – collect feedback before, during, and after the festival,

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