Special Assistance

Our staff are delighted to provide special assistance, if required, to disabled and other theatregoers. Our facillities includes spaces for ten wheelchairs, lifts to all levels of the building, low level access at the Box Office, and an infra-red system to assist patrons with hearing difficulties.

Customers using wheelchairs, or those who require special assistance attending an event, should contact the Box Office in advance so that appropriate assistance can be arranged.

Six disabled car park spaces are available on the top level of English Street Car Park from which The Market Place Theatre can be accessed via a sloping walkway.

Full access guide available from AccessAble

Autism NI Impact Award

The Market Place Theatre is proud to have awarded the Autism NI Impact Award, creating a more Autism friendly environment for our customers. As part of this process, our staff have worked alongside Autism NI to gain knowledge in the fundamentals of Autism, and as a result three staff members been appointed as Autism champions. Our champions have completed an accredited assessment and are now responsible for overseeing the implementation of an agreed plan of adjustments within the theatre to help individuals with autism and their families to enjoy every aspect of their experience with us.

As part of these adjustments, we will be introducing additional relaxed performances, providing a designated quiet area, producing a visual story to be made available on our website and at the Box Office, offering familiarisation tours of the building, and providing sensory materials.

Our Autism Champions are also happy to provide pre-show tours of the venue to families and individuals who wish to avail of this service to improve their visitor experience. Please note tours must be booked in advance with the Box Office on 03300 561 025.

A visual story designed for visitors to The Market Place Theatre to help prepare you if you are curious or anxious about your visit, is available here: Generic Visual Story 2021

Should you have any comments or suggestions on our support to individuals with Autism and their families, please do not hesitate to contact us at feedback@marketplacearmagh.com

Website Accessibility Statement

We are committed to providing a website, regardless of technology or ability, that is available to everybody.

We strive to provide a website that is designed to be easy to use, using structured information for ease of navigation, featuring the correct application of alternate descriptions for videos and images.

We endeavour to continue the development and updating of the website based upon currently evolving standards, and best practices.

Recite Me 

This website is equipped with Recite Me, web accessibility software which makes our website easier to access. Functionality of this tool includes the ability to change background colours, increase text size, have the text read aloud, translate text into a different language, magnify what is on the screen and much more. To access this tool, simply click on ‘Website Accessibility’ on the footer of any page, and then choose the options you require from the Recite Me toolbar which will appear at the top of the page.

Web Accessibility Initiative

This website has been designed to conform to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), which is directed with standards on the provision of web content accessible to people with disabilities. Compliance to the guidelines ensures that the website provides the same experience for all of our users.

Browser Compatibility

The site has been built to the W3C compliance standards for xHTML, and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).  The site has been designed to display correctly the majority of browsers releases since 2005.  By ensuring that our site displays correctly in older browsers, we endeavour to ensure that the same display is compatible with future browser versions.

Features

We currently use a range of features for the provision of our content and endeavour to ensure that the content provided is accessible, and complaint to the W3C standard.

Links:  All link regions within the website contain title information for screen readers, allowing for the ease of navigation across the site.

Images:  Images are provided with alternate text options for screen readers to ensure compliance with the W3C standards.  Any decorative graphics used for styling contain no alternative descriptions as per the guidelines.

Sitemap:  A sitemap is available for the provision of general information relating to the structure of the website.

Colours:  The website has been designed to ensure that combination of colours relating to variations of colour blindness conditions are avoided to ensure that, where under our control, the information provided is clear.

Fonts:  Fonts used across the site have been selected to be easily readable, with each browser providing options to increase or decrease the font size.

• For Internet Explorer, select View, and Text Size, and highlight the desired font size

• For Firefox, select View, and Zoom, then Zoom Text Only

• For Safari, click on the large A button to increase the font size up

• For Chrome, click the Settings icon, then zoom the page with the ‘-‘ or ‘+’ icons to achieve the desired display

PDF Documents

All generated PDF documents require the use of separate software such as Adobe Acrobat Reader and, where required, Adobe can provide the tools and resources required for screen readers.

We endeavour to provide PDF documents which are accessible for everybody, however there may be exceptions of older documents which do not comply with the current standards required for screen readers.

Maintaining Accessibility

It is our aim to ensure that we provide a website that is fully accessible to everyone.  We aim to continually review current standards to ensure that we maintain a high level of accessibility across our website.  We welcome comments, suggestions or details of problems you may have encountered whilst using the website.  Please feel free to contact us with the details of any issues experienced.