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Equipment

Summary

Access Lab & Library maintains a collection of access equipment
This equipment has been chosen to help artists make access a part of their work
Items are available for loan
We can support your use with workshops and technical support
Contact us to find out more

Inventory

Access Lab & Library’s equipment library is designed to remove barriers for artists and small companies to include access as part of their creative productions. We offer a diverse range of tools to enable you to experiment with and deliver audiodescriptions, captions, pre-recorded materials, tactile publications, events, advocacy and activism.

Image description: This photo shows the remote audiodescription setup we provided to Melbourne Fringe for their 2025 Gala at the Capitol Theatre. In a brightly-lit bio box, a selection of audiodescription equipment is laid out on a trestle table. It includes an open briefcase full of wireless radios and earpieces, a pair of headphones, a microphone and speaker, and a laptop showing live-streamed vision from the venue’s stage.

Unlike a traditional equipment hire company, our equipment library exists specifically to facilitate creative access. Items are available for loan, and we can support you with technical and creative guidance and consultation. At the moment, our equipment is being used in three productions in Melbourne Fringe, in a creative development at Arts House, and as part of our teaching.

Our inventory includes:

Digital and analogue FM wireless transmitter and receiver systems for audiodescription and low-power broadcast performances
A compact, portable battery-powered stereo wireless PA system (ElectroVoice EVERSE 8)
Zoom H4essential accessible (narrated menu/controls) 32-bit float handy audio recorders
A Mac Mini (M4) with a full QLab license to help you run installations and live performances with accessible audio, video and lighting cues
A Cricut Maker 3 cutting/debossing machine
Professional audio and video equipment to support high quality preproduction and asynchronous performances
Interfaces and converters to support live-streamed presentations and participation
A selection of haptic transducers to activate vibrational audience experiences
Small format mixers (Behringer XENYX502, Mackie 402VLZ3) to support audiodescription
Teleprompter equipment to support scripted/prompted recording
Clear, simple guides to make the above as easy to use as possible

We’ll publish more information about our inventory soon.

Interested? Make an enquiry.

Image description: An Access Lab & Library loan being delivered to Melbourne Fringe. There’s a plastic tub full of cables, microphones, headphones, batteries and earpieces; two silver briefcases full of audiodescription transmitters and receivers; and two small plastic travel cases carrying FM transmission equipment and mixers. These kits were loaned for use across three shows during the 2026 festival.