Our co-produced easy read service

People with a learning disability have a right to information they can understand. ‘Easy read’ is a format that people with a learning disability prefer.

Easy read contains only the essential information, which is clearly presented, and uses images to help explain the concepts in the text. 

Download our info sheet on easy read
A colorful hand-drawn illustration of a girl with orange hair, a pink bow, and blue eyes holding a book, with a speech bubble saying 'EASY READ'.

Commission your own easy read document

Building Bridges provides a service to produce easy read versions of your reports, documents and letters.

Easy read is not a direct translation of the original document. It is a communication strategy to enable people with a learning disability to be informed and included in issues that affect their lives.

This is a reasonable adjustment and enables adherence to the Equality Act 2010 and the Accessible Information Standard.

Drawing using coloured pencils of a girl with blonde hair, holding a finger to her lips as if saying 'shh,' inside a pink frame on a pink background.

Presentation, font and images

We use images from Photosymbols. If you have other images that you would like us to use please supply the original artwork files. There will be an additional cost if bespoke images are required, and this may also add some time to the production process. 

We will replicate the design and colour scheme of your original document as closely as possible but we may need to make adjustments to improve accessibility. Type is set at 16pt and we use the typeface FSMe that has been designed for people with a learning disability.

If there are a lot of new complicated words or terms we will create a glossary. We put these words in bold in the easy read document.

For more information or a quote please contact mail@building-bridges-training.org

An easy read document about climate change on a table top. There is a pair of reading glasses resting on top of the document.

Regardless of the original length of a document, an easy read report should be about 10–14 pages maximum, or it will be too long to engage its intended audience.

There are 4 options we can quote for:

  • Easy read with images in a Word document.

  • Easy read with images with graphic design layout.

  • Easy read with images with graphic design layout and set up or a screen reader.

  • Simplification of complex text to make a more accessible version, but not as basic as easy read. For example, if you need a document for people who understand limited English.

A number of people from Building Bridges are involved in producing easy read, so it usually takes us about 2–3 weeks to complete the final designed version.

A drawing using coloured pencils of an Easy Read document produced by Building Bridges.

Find out more about easy read from Building Bridges

Watch our video below to find out how our easy read service can help you.