Back to school accessibility and inclusion training special offer

Annie Mannion | 08 Sep 2022

Book a bundle ticket for our Don’t Disable Me lived experience training series by 15 September for a great value option - attend all 5 courses in the Don't Disable Me series for the price of 4, for essential advice from disabled people about how you can create an accessible and diverse workforce.

Adi Latif standing smiling in garden areaIn the five separate courses, you will learn through real-life experiences of disabled people the unintentional barriers we can create, particularly in the workplace, and receive practical ideas about how to remove those barriers.

Book now for the following courses, back by popular demand:

Back to School special offer

Booking our 'Back to School' offer will save your organisation money. If you book by 15 September, when the first course in the series starts (Removing visual barriers) you will get all 5 live courses in the 'Don't Disable Me' series for the price of 4:

Not for profit bundle of all 5 courses for the price of 4: £396
For profit bundle of all 5 courses for the price of 4: £596
 

Book your Don't Disable Me bundle now
 

Watch a trailer about the courses for a taster of what to expect:

What previous attendees say about the courses

Attendees rated the Removing visual barriers course excellent. In the workshop, Adi Latif (pictured above, left), senior accessibility and usability consultant at AbilityNet, shares the tools and technology he uses to help with living as a blind person. Past attendees agreed that they were more knowledgeable and confident in the topic.

In the course you will pick up valuable tips, for example in online presentations and meetings that use slides, not using phrases like “as you can see here” or “I won’t bother reading out the slide”. In addition, the training course will cover how to break down visual barriers online.

Rina Wharton speaking on camera with Adam Tweed in the backgroundRina Wharton (pictured, right), accessibility and usability consultant at AbilityNet, leads the Removing neurodiversity barriers course. Of the many positive comments about the course, here's one:

"I found Rina's authentic and open conversation about her experience really insightful and helped my confidence in how to work better with people with neurodiversity conditions, and for my own disability. Thank you!”

Beyond Green attended the Mental Health barriers course and shared its 'top 3 take aways' from the course:

  1. Mental Health difficulties impact 1 out of 4 people each year; they're incredibly common, and likely to affect our co-workers and our clients alike
  2. Often, people just want to feel heard, and being a sounding board for someone can make the biggest difference
  3. The goal is to create space for people to disclose their experiences if they would like to and to explore ways the company can support them; part of doing is to keep accessibility in mind when designing processes, documents, and meetings.

All the courses in the series cover the types of assistive technologies that can remove barriers, plus valuable advice on how to remove other kinds of associated digital, environmental, and cultural barriers. Whether it be language, or considering what will be useful to disabled people, the idea is to not only remove these barriers but to avoid creating them in the first place.

So, make meaningful changes at your organisation to ensure that disabled people in your workplace can thrive. AbilityNet's training courses can help you do this:
 

Book your Don't Disable Me bundle now
 

Further resources 

AbilityNet provides a range of free services to help disabled people and older people. If you can afford it, please donate to help us support older and disabled people through technology