What is Round Table?
Round Table on Information Access for People with Print Disabilities facilitates and influences the production and use of quality alternative formats for people with print disabilities by optimising the evolving Round Table body of knowledge.
Round Table has a broad membership of education, government, business, alternate format producers, community and disability organisations throughout Australia and New Zealand with the following mission:
“To facilitate and influence the production and use of quality alternative formats for people with print disabilities by optimising the evolving Round Table body of knowledge.”
Find out about the advantages of Round Table membership.
2025 Round Table Conference
We look forward to welcoming you to Melbourne.
Conference Theme:
Access Unlocked: Innovating for Information Equity
Dates and Venue:
Saturday, 24 May to Tuesday, 27 May 2025
Melbourne (venue tbc)
Call for Abstracts is now Open
Submission Deadline: Monday, 4 November 2024
Round Table Objectives
The Round Table has set its objectives:
- Fostering a spirit of cooperation and resource sharing among members
- Setting standards and improving the range and accessibility of materials produced
- Providing for consultation and/or action on matters of common concern
- Representing the collective views of members to appropriate bodies
- Fostering consumer consultation
Round Table’s strength is the diversity of knowledge and experience in the production and use of alternate format materials embodied by its members. This in-depth experience is drawn on by the Round Table to prepare its standards and guidelines on the production of alternate formats, as well as to represent perspectives on the accessibility of material.
Round Table Constitution and Strategic Plan
Round Table Advocacy Policy
Noticeboard
The noticeboard contains:
- Round Table newsletters
- ICEVI publications
- Information and news, often supplied from other organisations.
While Round Table strives to make the information on the noticeboard as relevant, timely and accurate as possible the inclusion of information on this page does not constitute endorsement by Round Table.
Free guidelines
Round Table Guidelines on alternative format standards can be downloaded free of charge. The most recent publications are:
- Guidelines for Producing Accessible Graphics (2022) – guidelines and practical examples
- Guidelines for Accessible Assessment (2019) – to guide teachers, support staff, accessible format producers and disability service practitioners when preparing educational assessment tasks for students with vision impairment.
- Guidelines for Producing Accessible E-text (2018) – provide document creators with best practice accessibility methods across a variety of electronic formats in common use.
- ABA Rules and Guidelines for Formatting Braille (2016) – rules, guidelines, examples and instructions on achieving best practice formatting of braille documents.
- Unified English Braille Australian Training Manual (2014) – a practical resource for learning braille.
What is a print disability?
People with a print disability are those who cannot obtain access to information in a print format because they:
- Are blind or vision impaired.
- Have physical disabilities which limit their ability to hold or manipulate information in a printed form.
- Have perceptual or other disabilities which limit their ability to follow a line of print or which affect their concentration.
New links from the Resources Page
Refer to our Resources page and Useful Links for more references relevant to print disability.
Website feedback
Round Table is now using new software to create on-line forms and would welcome feedback from users. If you have difficulties completing any Round Table form or have any suggestions for improvements please contact us.
Last updated: September 18, 2024 at 10:00 am