Easy Read Services
Our Easy Read translation services
Easy Read is a specialist format that combines images with clear text. It is designed to help organisations communicate with people with a learning disability. The Easy Read format has been developed by and with adults with a learning disability to meet their needs.
Our experienced and knowledgeable in-house experts can produce Easy Read documents, videos and surveys.
We have produced Easy Read documents for the NHS, the Scottish Parliament, Bristol Community Health CIC, Bristol City Council, and many housing associations and local authorities.
Do you have any questions or need extra Easy Read information?
If so you can call us:
01179 44 00 44
or use our contact page
Our partnerships
We have worked closely with a leading consultant on Easy Read translation to develop our service and ensure that our Easy Read is fully accessible to the target audience.
Our Easy Read user groups, run in partnership with the UK’s leading learning disability charity MENCAP, and a local charity OpenStoryTellers, make sure we produce the best and most accessible Easy Read documents possible. We believe it’s fundamentally important that we continue to receive direct input from the people most likely to use the documents, and are dedicated to the continual improvement of our service to ensure ongoing accessibility.
Our process
How to place an order for Easy Read documents
Email the document to be transcribed
All you need to do is email us the document that you need translated into Easy Read format. Let us know any other details and whether you have a deadline.
Receive a quote for Easy Read translation
We'll send you a fixed price quote for our Easy Read services. We'll confirm the turnaround time and also suggest any additional options you may wish to consider.
Sit back and relax
Our in-house specialists will reformat your document to Easy Read, for people with learning disabilities. We will send your new document to you, or directly to your recipients - usually within 5-10 working days.
Our Easy Read services include:
Different types of document
- letters, books, magazines and reports
- financial billing and statements
- NHS and health information
- summary legal contracts
- forms and surveys
Output in various styles
- bespoke design and editorial
- branding to match original
- printing and binding as needed
- Easy Read videos
- online surveys
Expert detail
- a logical structure and clear design
- clear jargon-free language
- use of Photosymbol images
- redesign of tables, charts and forms
- ongoing checking group
What does Easy Read look like?
Take a look at one of the sample Easy Read documents we have produced. You can see that we have maintained the corporate style whilst rewriting the text in Easy Read format and making it more accessible for adults with learning disabilities:
The original looked like this:
You can click below to view the full original version in PDF.
View the originalThe Easy Read version we developed looks like this:
You can click below to view the full Easy Read version in PDF.
View the Easy Read
