Ensure accessibility

Options

General accessibility

• Applied graphic design principles
• One-Three-Twenty-Five (1:3:25) principle: ensuring that research findings are presented in a logical and consistent manner by allowing for a 1 page outline, a 3 page executive summary and 25 pages to present the findings and methodology.
• Plain language: Plain English is a clear and concise writing style that ensures accessibility to the information for all stakeholders.
• Chartjunk elimination: Removing visual elements that don't contribute to the main message.
• Descriptive chart titles: Particularly when graphs must standalone, without the assistance of the evaluation to help interpret them, descriptive subtitles in the chart can point out the key take away points for the reader.
• Emphasis techniques: Visual techniques to draw attention to certain bits of information.
• Headings as summary statements: Engage readers through making headings of the report summary statements. 

Specific accessibility barriers

• Colour blind audience: Difficulty distinguishing between different colour wavelengths.
• Low vision and blind audience: Vision impairments which make reading documents difficult or impossible. 

Download a summary of the tasks, options, and approaches associated with reporting and supporting use of findings.