Our campaign is led by Direct Access founder Steven Mifsud
MBE and Nantwich Town Disability FC captain Craig Acton, with the latter
designing and hand-delivering the accessible menus to the participating restaurants.

Our team drew inspiration to create Accessible Menus after
noticing a lack of accessible menus in our town’s local restaurants, with
Craig’s visual impairment requiring venue staff to read
menus out to him. This made sit-down dining in the town an “uncomfortable and inaccessible” experience.

Direct Access is producing these bespoke menus in-house and

we expect the changes to existing restaurant menus will include increased font sizes, colour contrast, simplification of information, and improved formatting. Braille menus will also be provided.

Our team firmly believes that our accessible menus will benefit visually impaired, elderly, and autistic communities, as the accessible formats offer a much simpler, less hectic viewing experience, which can also aid both the elderly and the very young population. The Braille menus will also accommodate those who have limited or no vision at all.

We expect the menus will also be of benefit to young children, encouraging them to be “grown-up” and less dependent on parents to make meal choices for them.