Our team come from a range of different backgrounds. Our doors are open to any with the right skillset, regardless of their disabilty. Each member not only offers their own perspective from their lived experience but also the skills to create videos, virtual tours and more.
To find out more about the team here at Autek, visit our About Us page.
Anxiety can prevent some people from leaving their homes. The outside can be daunting for a number of reasons, from noise to crowds, but the scariest aspect is the unknown – what to expect.
What’s It Like? is a web app, where you can view a virtual tour comprised of 360° images of the inside and outside of a place you want to visit, before you leave your home. Whether it be a medical professional explaining a potentially stressful procedure, or a teacher talking through what they do, these videos can familarise the user with friendly faces and the enviroment to make the experience of vistiting a new place less stressful and more welcoming.
The best people to design and deliver videos for autistic and disabled people (or people who support autistic and disabled people) are autistic and disabled people.
We are experienced in filming in multiple areas across the south, talking with our clients so we can deliver on their vision and efficiently capture what we need. We’re flexible and professional, sticking to production schedules and providing location recces, and working extensively to edit the videos to create beautiful and accessible videos.
We use animation to augment our videos and to tell the stories that our customers want. Often a short piece of animation can capture an idea in a much simpler and more creative way than acted scenes.
We also use animation to help explain concepts in our videos in imaginative ways.
We use computer generated avatars and movement, and hand drawn 2-D animation and animatics depending on the look and feel that our customers want to realise their vision.
Autek staff are all experts at inclusion through our lived experiences and the video work that we produce. Our team also includes two experienced consultants who support organisations and services to be more inclusive for autistic and neurodivergent people.
We put together teams of people with different access needs to carry out an audit of a place or service, looking at such diverse things as the sensory environment, triggers for anxiety, communication through signs and posted information. We can help you to build a more inclusive environment and to prepare neurodivergent people who want or need to visit.
We also provide an expert assessment of current communications from a neurodivergent perspective. We understand what is needed for letters, posters, websites, and, of course, videos to make them truly accessible.
Our Access consulting provides excellent value for money compared to traditional consultancies.
As part of our mission to make the world more inclusive for neurodivergent people, Autek are collaborating on research studies. We want to investigate the challenges that services impose on us and to help co-create solutions that are more efficient and inclusive.
We get involved as research participants providing autistic and other neurodivergent perspectives to ensure our community isn’t forgotten.We actively promote our community voice in research networks.
