Accessibility
The festival undertakes to:
- Place clear directional signs that including symbols
- Clear uninterrupted pathways across the festival site
- Ensure that temporary ramps are installed in any location (footpaths) where existing ramps are obstructed
- Look to ensure that 1.5m of space is maintained between furniture, stalls and exhibits or in busy areas for a person to easily manoeuvre a mobility aid (e.g. wheelchair, walking frame, stick, crutches)
- Place covers over cables or wires to prevent tripping
- Not use roped barriers
- Offer wheelchairs for loan (from registration Tent)
- Provide Access support personnel to assist where necessary e.g. pushing wheelchair
- Ensure as much as possible step free access to stage and change room areas (Main Stage)
- Ensure the definition of stage edges in entertainment areas
- Provide adjustable height or roving microphones
- Provide Spaces for a person using a wheelchair to sit with friends
- Provide Accessible storage area for mobility aids
- Provide Water for assistance animals
- Ensure first aid support is readily available
- Provide a space for storing mobility aids and baggage
- Prepare a a Mobility Map (below) of the site showing accessible pathways, toilets and parking
- Prepare information regarding public transport access to the site
- Engage the services of Auslan interpreters on the Main Stage programming (Saturday Night)