Monday, 24 August 2015

Now is the time, so seize the day!

The sun may not be shining as much as we'd like, but the principle of making hay still applies - time to take some video to promote your venue, while you have a range of visitors who can show off your premises and services to great advantage.

It doesn't have to be Hollywood production to be really helpful.

This short piece of hand-held video shows well enough what the terrain is like on one of the trails in Thetford Forest

and this one shows the user's perspective getting to the arena at the Download Festival

while panoramic views put together as video work remarkably well for the Braithwaite Fold campsite.

Enlist the help of a wheelchair-using visitor too, or a parent with a pushchair, or someone who uses sticks to help them get around. If they are willing to appear in your video it will enable future visitors to see what the access is like far more immediately than even the most thorough of access audits, which are really more useful for detailed study, especially by your manager.

Spoken feedback from them would be advantageous too. And what a lot of people forget is that even captions on video are not accessible to Braille output devices - though if you know different we'd be delighted to hear. So, for the benefit of some astonishingly intrepid deaf/blind people out there, it's handy to include text of any commentary as well as some brief text description into the 'content' box of our submission form… You'll find some more tips on the help page of our site.

Upload your links to showmetheaccess.co.uk and the news will get tweeted far and wide. Cameras: roll!