Physical environment

Preparing buildings and access requirements

• Ramps to all necessary locations.
• Accessible lifts and lift buttons.
• Automatic doors.
• Accessible external paths and landscaping.
• Accessibility within buildings, including their interior layout.
• Vibrating and light fire alarms for people with hearing loss.
• Adapted fire alarms and door bells in university accommodation.
• Vibrating pagers.
• Fire refuges or alternative escape routes for people with mobility impairments.
• Quiet refuges and first aid facilities where people with epilepsy, for example, might go after an attack.
• Rooms without fluorescent lighting.
• Enhanced signage and colour or tone contrasts to aid orientation.
• Enhanced lighting to facilitate lip reading.
• Effective sound system with T loops.
• Desks, laboratory benches, work surfaces and reception desks at varying or flexible heights.
• Appropriate seating.
• Reserved areas in all teaching and learning locations, including the library.
• Accessible technology, including screen readers, and libraries.
• Accessible toilets.
• Accessible services, such as catering facilities.
• Convenient and reserved parking spaces.
• Lowered kerbs.