Distribute your recruitment announcements in formats that are accessible to people with visual or hearing impairments.

Distribute your recruitment announcements through agencies serving people with visual or hearing impairments.

Plan your study location to be accessible to non-drivers

Learn how to use large print effectively: which fonts, font sizes, and background paper help people with low vision to read your printed material.

Use questionnaire formats that are accessible to people who use screen reading software.

Choose magnifiers that will help people with low vision to see your printed materials.

Learn when to use Braille, and how to get a document printed in Braille.

Make and use audio or video recordings for people with visual or hearing loss.

Choose amplifying equipment that helps people with low hearing to hear you better.

Contract with a sign language interpreter to translate for a Deaf person who is in your study.

Learn techniques for effective spoken communication with people who have low hearing.

Use audio-enabled, tactilely marked, touch-screen computers for questionnaires.

Use tactile markings on touch-screen computers for people with visual impairment to respond to questionnaires.

Use wide-lined paper and thick, black markers that make clearly-defined lines for record keeping by people with low vision.

Use recordings, talking computers, or Braille for narrative diaries for people who cannot see well enough to write.

Use simple, tactile systems to help visually impaired people keep records of performance of an intervention.

Use simple visual record-keeping systems for Deaf people for whom American Sign Language is a first language, and writing English is difficult.

Use nonvisual equipment for self-management interventions: talking thermometer, scale, food scale, blood glucose meter, sphygmomanometer.

Work with an Orientation & Mobility specialist to help make an exercise intervention accessible for people with visual impairment.