Accessible Event Design Training
Grounded in experience and led by people who’ve lived it.
Learn how to plan and deliver inclusive events with confidence. This training gives you practical tools, lived experience insights, and real-world strategies to make accessibility part of your planning from the start.
Whether you're organising a community workshop, festival, conference, or webinar, this training will help you reduce barriers, increase engagement, and build a reputation for inclusion.
Want to make your events more accessible?
Contact me do discuss the needs of your organisation and 1:1 event specific guidance or in house training.
Why accessible event design matters
One in five Australians have a disability, and most disabilities aren’t visible. If accessibility isn’t considered at every stage of your event, people will be excluded, often without you even realising it.
Accessible event design isn’t just the right thing to do. It makes your event stronger, fairer, and more welcoming for everyone.
This training will help you:
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Identify and remove access barriers at every stage
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Increase attendance and community reach
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Build a reputation for inclusion
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Understand and meet your legal obligations under the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA)
What you'll learn
You will be guided through every stage of planning, delivering and wrapping up an accessible event, sharing lessons from lived experience and decades of practice.
It provides:
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Real life case studies highlighting barriers and how to deal with them
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Practical accessibility strategies your team can implement immediately
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Templates, resources and tools to build more inclusive experiences across the attendee journey
Foundations
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The cost of exclusion
Planning for access
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Budgeting
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Choosing an accessible venue (indoor and outdoor) or platform
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Transport, catering and accommodation
Designing an inclusive experience
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Inclusive programming and presenter support
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Accessible marketing and registration
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Working with suppliers and service providers
Delivering access
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Pre-event, on-the-day, and post-event access in action
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Collecting feedback and planning for the future
This is all covered and more in the training.
Contact me to chat about your training needs.
Who is this training for?
Our training isn’t just for event managers. It’s for anyone involved in organising events or meetings; whether you’re a business owner, employee, freelancer or volunteer.
You might be:
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Coordinating community or stakeholder engagement sessions, workshops or conferences
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Hosting webinars or online events
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Arranging dinner or cocktail functions
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Supporting access and inclusion at festivals or performances
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Running internal meetings, trainings or staff events
This training is especially relevant for:
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Event coordinators and managers
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Marketing and communications teams
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Professional conference organisers and meeting planners
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Executive assistants who organise events
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Arts, community and festival organisers
No prior accessibility knowledge is needed. Just a willingness to learn and a commitment to inclusion.
Meet the training co-designers
Sue Wickham
Sue has over 30 years' experience in event management. She has managed a multitude of events for a diverse range of organisations and occasions both domestically and internationally. These have included high-profile events with government representatives and consular officials, internationally televised cricket matches, black tie gala dinners, conferences and workshops, internal employee engagement events, stakeholder and sponsor led events and more.
Rosie Putland
Rosie is a proudly disabled digital accessibility and communications specialist with deep experience in inclusive facilitation and training. She is the co-founder of Modality Co, a disability-led consultancy helping organisations embed accessibility into their digital content, systems, and events.
She has delivered hundreds of hours of accessibility training through national consultancies, community-led projects, and in-house programs, and supports participants to build confidence in accessibility without fear of getting it wrong.
Training format
Delivery options:
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1:1 event specific targeted training
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60 minute 'lunch and learn' online introductory session
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in house group training
Ready to design more accessible events?
Contact me to discuss the needs of your organisation and 1:1 event specific guidance or in house training.