Inklusion Guide Impact Report
The Inklusion Guide has been out for two years, and we want to know if it’s had impact on the industry.
It’s been a bit of long hiatus since we launched the guide two years ago, but we’re delighted to share the BSL version (huge thanks to Rinkoo Barpaga) and audio version of the guide with you – once again made possible by the generous support from Penguin Random House. It was particularly special to contribute to the audio version by recording the Foreword and Acknowledgements sections.
We have once again paired up with our researcher, Cat Mitchell, Senior Publishing lecturer at the University of Derby, who is helping us to carry out an Impact Report to measure how the Inklusion Guide has helped event organisers to improve their access provisions.
It’s thanks to the generous contribution of £4000 from the Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society (ALCS) that we’re able to embark on this important research. We hope to demonstrate that the publishing landscape has shifted towards better inclusivity of disabled people (and subsequently, all of us) through use and implementation of the guide’s advice.
We’ll also be measuring how the guide has helped individuals to self-advocate to have their needs met by events organisers, both as attending audience members and as speaking authors.
We have still experienced some pushback against our access requirements, when being invited to speak at events about the guide – by those largest providers who we would absolutely expect to be on top of things. So there’s still a way to go before better access provisions are the norm.
Having spoken to many of you over the last couple of years, we know that positive change is both possible and effective, and we’re looking forward to carrying out interviews with events organisers and EDI teams to build on our qualitative research for the report. We want to know what’s worked, what hasn’t, and what’s missing from the guide.
The results will be collated and disseminated in a free, visually-led PDF, to spotlight the guide’s impact on the sector, available in the autumn.
Please give us your feedback by filling out this ten-minute Google Form so we can continue to drive essential change in our industry.
Responses are required by midnight on 8th September.
If you'd like to participate in our qualitative research, and have a chat about how the guide has more specifically helped you across your provisions, please email me at hello@inklusionguide.org.
Once again, it's thanks to your support that this is possible - I really hope you'll reach out.
Huge thanks to those of you who have already reached out to give your feedback.
Let’s not go back to normal!
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