You tell us - How accessible are services if you are a disabled person?
This Equality Commission for Northern Ireland funded research seeks your views on the accessibility of services, from shops to pubs to hairdressers and more. You can take part through the on line survey https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Access2servicesNI
New research, commissioned by the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland, is studying what the access to services is like for a disabled person living in or visiting Northern Ireland.
The researchers are interested in the views of all disabled people and want to know what it is like locally.
The work is being carried out by Adapt NI and they are keen to gather the views of people with sight, hearing or mobility impairments, learning disability, mental health support needs, hidden impairments such as epilepsy, autism, diabetes, arthritis, or long term illnesses or conditions like cancer, HIV or chronic heart disease.
Using a ‘shopping basket’ of twenty public services, the research asks how easy or difficult they are to use. Services include clothes shops, pubs, supermarkets, amusements, hotels, dentists, hairdressers, post offices and more.
You can add your views and share experiences of using services in town by completing the survey. It is online here https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Access2servicesNI. You can also get the questions emailed to you, or give your answers over the phone at the numbers below.
Contact points are [email protected] or call 028 9023 1211 Mon to Fri between 9.00am and 5.00pm. For text or outside office hours contact 07764 182 966.
Researchers can call you back and Other formats can be provided on request.
Responses are sought by Friday 15 February