Translations:Accessibility Planning/7/en

Another misunderstanding is that accommodation means elaborate adaptation. Community experience suggests that most of what makes a difference is small and structural: choosing a ground-floor venue, allowing a longer window of arrival, having a chair available, keeping music at a level that permits conversation, or being clear that leaving early is entirely acceptable.

| Social=Access has an emotional dimension that is easy to overlook. Being unable to attend something is not only a practical inconvenience; it can carry a sense of being an afterthought. People describe the difference between an apology after the fact and information provided in advance as considerable, even when the outcome is identical.