Guidance and resources

Accessible signs for vision-impaired people

Find out how to make signs accessible for blind people.

Accessibility

Guidance

Mapping the Change report

This mapping report looks at the success factors of social change activities to find out what works and what does not.

Attitudes

Research

Are you an employer, business owner or government agency?

Find out how you can ensure disabled people can fully participate in our society.

Accessibility audits of towns in Coromandel

Read about accessibility audits carried out on towns in the Coromandel region.

Accessibility

Guidance

Guidance for policy makers

Learn more about the 'social model' of disability. This draws on a human rights discourse, defining disabled people as an excluded or oppressed social group. It distinguishes between the impairments that people have and the barriers to social participation that they experience.

Audience collection

Guidance

Employing disabled people

Here is information that will make it easier to employ disabled people so that your organisation can benefit from their contribution.

Attitudes

Audience collection

Employment & economic security

Guidance

Topic

Be. Accessible Business Toolkit

Here you can access a toolkit to make your business or organisations fully accessible to all New Zealanders.

Accessibility

Attitudes

Audience collection

Employment & economic security

Guidance

How to improve access to buildings

People with disabilities must be able to 'carry out normal activities and processes' in an accommodation building, and there are a number of ways to ensure this is possible. Find out more.

Accessibility

Guidance

Law & Policy