Accessibility at Mencap Easy Read
Accessibility at Mencap
What do we mean by accessibility?
Accessibility is about making it easier for someone to get, use or do something.
At Mencap we want people with a learning disability A learning disability is to do with the way someone's brain works. It makes it harder for someone to learn, understand or do things. to be able to be listened to and included in everything.
That is why we are making our digital communications more
accessible
Accessible means something is easy for people to use or join in with. For example: Accessible writing means the writing is easy to read and understand.
.
Digital communications are pieces of information on things like videos and webpages.
On our
website
A website is a page you can go to on the internet like Google or YouTube.
we now have lots of
Easy Read
Easy Read is a way of making written information easier to understand. Pictures are usually added next to the writing.
webpages.
An Easy Read is a piece of writing that uses pictures as well as simple words to help people understand it more easily.
Find out more about our Easy Read webpages by watching our 'What is Easy Read?' video.
We also have an Easy Read library where you can find all our Easy Reads.
The Mencap website now has glossary terms to help people read our online information.
Glossary terms are Mencap's simpler Easy Read meanings to difficult words and phrases.
Find out how to spot and use our glossary terms on our 'Making words easy to understand on our website' video.
This Easy Read was first published in July 2025
Last updated: 17/07/2025.