The responsibility of making information accessible

Agencies such as health and disability services have an obligation to provide accessible information, this is articulated in the UN Convention on the rights of persons with disability (UNCRPD). Easy read, also known as easy English, is one strategy used by agencies to support people with intellectual disability to understand information. Disability organisations use easy read in many aspects of service provision, for example planning service goals or in brochures about their service. The purpose of easy read is to make information easier to understand by distilling difficult or complex messages into simple, short sentences with corresponding pictures.