Professional development training—accessibility, walkability and universal design
Victoria Walks provides professional development training in universal access auditing for planners, engineers, advocates and anyone interested in planning, designing or assessing streets. The course covers obligations udner the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) and requiremetns of relevant accessibility standards, while also exploring how people with disability experience and navigate streets, the barriers they encounter and what enables independent access. Participants develop practical skills to help make streets safer and easier for everyone to walk and move around.
The program is a collaboration between Victoria Walks and:
- Safe System Solutions, leading experts in Australian road safety and professional development for transport planners and engineers
- Amanda Lawrie-Jones, Founder of Accessible Action and a Finalist in the ‘Change Making’ category of the National Awards for Disability Leadership
- Bridget Doran, a New Zealand based transportation engineer, researcher and human factors psychologist with specialist expertise in transport equity.
The first course was delivered in person across a two-day intensive in Melbourne in June 2025, and sold out seven weeks in advance! Participants combined classroom learning with practical, on-street training.
The course is now available online, enabling people from across Australia and New Zealand to learn about the technical and practical aspects of assessing street environments for accessibility in an engaging and interactive format.
Read what previous attendees have said:
- “This course provided practical knowledge of DDA requirements and helped me better understand how to assess infrastructure from an accessibility and inclusion perspective.”
- “Very useful, practical advice delivered in a really nice personal way.”
