Physical environment
- Summary
- Physical environment
- Application process
- Teaching and learning
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.
