Engagement resources

Find advice to help you make it easier for disabled people to be involved when you are engaging with the community.

Engagement checklist

Our engagement checklist provides a potential structure for a project plan for community engagement with disabled people.

Creating an accessible engagement and reporting process

Tips on ensuring that your consultation material, venues, meetings, and reports are accessible.

• Venue accessibility external URL
• Using written information and printed materials accessibly external URL
• Accessible presentations and other verbal communication external URL
• Using images, diagrams, graphs, and tables accessibly external URL
• Using testimonials external URL

Engaging with people with specific disabilities

Tips to support an effective engagement with people with specific disabilities.

• Engaging with people who are blind or low-vision external URL
• Engaging with autistic people external URL
• Engaging with people who are Deaf or have hearing loss external URL
• Engaging with intellectually disabled people external URL
• Engaging with people with complex communication needs external URL

Alternate formats

Engaging people with disabilities often requires creating materials in alternate formats. Whaikaha runs the all-of-government process for creating alternate formats and provides workshops on accessible information. See our alternate formats page for more information.