Disability Equality Scotland provides a high quality Easy Read service to organisations across all sectors.
We can put almost anything into Easy Read. This helps you reach a wider audience and makes sure your information reaches more people.
What Easy Read is
Easy Read is an accessible format used to share information in a way that is easier to understand and use. It combines clear language, short sentences, helpful images and a clean layout.
How it was developed
Easy Read was developed with people with learning disabilities and is designed around their needs. It is now also used by many other people who benefit from clear and straightforward information.
Our role
Disability Equality Scotland is a founding member of the UK Easy Read Standards Working Group. This group has developed standards for how Easy Read should be written, designed and tested.
Why Easy Read matters
Many people are excluded by standard ways of sharing information.
Who Easy Read helps
Easy Read can help a wide range of people. This includes people with learning disabilities, people with cognitive issues such as dementia, neurodivergent people, and people who are learning English.
It can also help people who find reading difficult, people who are easily overwhelmed, and people whose first language is British Sign Language.
These documents can reach:
- People with learning disabilities
- People with cognitive issues, like dementia
- Neurodivergent people, for example with dyslexia, dyscalculia or autism
- People who are learning English
- People who find reading difficult or who are easily overwhelmed
- People with a hearing impairment whose first language is British Sign Language (BSL)
The Equality Act 2010 requires organisations to provide information in accessible formats. Easy Read supports equal access for disabled people.
How we check our work
Our Easy Read service is shaped by ongoing input from our Easy Read User Feedback Group. We test new ideas, layouts and approaches with the group to make sure our work is clear, effective and works in practice.
What we offer
We can create new Easy Read documents or turn existing documents into Easy Read. We can also review documents, check them against Easy Read standards, and provide feedback from our user group.
Our aim is to make your information clear, accessible and easy to use.
What you can expect from the process
Step by step process of Easy Read Creation service. Step 1: Quote, Step 2: Timescale, Step 3: Process, Step 4: Advice.
Costs for the service
Disability Equality Scotland offers an Easy Read service based on the word count of your document. The pricing structure is £145 per 500 original words.
Other services we offer
Consultations and surveys
Consultations and surveys take significantly longer to create as Easy Read versions. This is due to a more complex layout and additional options and instructions for an Easy Read user.
Our additional cost for consultations and surveys is 30% on top of our basic Easy Read Service costings. For example, an original survey of 1000 words would cost £377. A longer consultation of 2500 words would cost £943.
Checking
Our cost for checking over an Easy Read document and providing bullet point feedback, is £80 per hour. It is very likely that for most Easy Reads this process would take just 1 hour and take 1 or 2 days to complete.
Easy Read User check
Our cost for checking your Easy Read document with our Feedback group who have lived experience of using Easy Read format is £180. We provide you with a list of their feedback and we edit your document to reflect their insights.
Fast Turnaround
We know that sometimes Easy Read versions are needed fast. If your deadline is very short and it needs us to bring in additional staff and additional hours, at the point of quoting we would apply an additional 25% to our basic Easy Read costing.
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