Accessibility

Justice, Diversity & Inclusion: Start Here

Find a comprehensive list of resources from The Commons Social Change Library on diversity, inclusion and solidarity in social movements.

Rendre le Militantisme plus Accessible (French – Français) [Making Your Activism Accessible in French]

Ce guide a été élaboré pour aider les militants à rendre leurs espaces, événements, réunions et communications plus accessibles, afin que chacun soit le bienvenu et encouragé à rejoindre un mouvement pour la justice de toutes les manières possibles !

A group of protestors, including people in wheelchairs, gather at a tram stop where a tram has stopped and people are getting on and off. Two people are holding a sign that reads 'Public Transport Should be for Everyone'.

Lessons from the Transport for All Campaign

The Transport for All campaign, coordinated by DRC Advocacy, is fighting for accessible public transport in Victoria, Australia. An interview with Ally Scott and Greg Ferrington about the campaign.

Easy Read Guides for Social Change

Easy Read Guides to learn about the commons library, social change, campaigning, organising, story and stories of campaigns and people.

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Insights from Disability Campaigning from Rochelle Porteous

Interview with Rochelle Porteous, experienced campaigner on a range of issues and the Advocacy Manager at the Council for Intellectual Disability.

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Accessible Pub Crawls and Positive Change: An Interview with Des Ryan

In this interview hear about Des Ryan’s annual accessible pub crawl in the town of Rockhampton in Australia – making positive change.

Making Protest Accessible: Tips and Checklists for Actions

Tips and checklists for planning and running accessible protests and other actions.

All about El Gibbs: Disability Advocate

Learn all about El Gibbs, an Australian Disability Advocate, through her writing and books, podcasts and webinars.

TED talks on Disability Rights, Perceptions, Accessibility and Inclusion

A great collection of TED talks to watch by people with disabilities about disability rights, perceptions, accessibility, inclusivity, design and work.

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Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice is a collection of essays by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha published in 2018. It is an influential text for disability advocates and all people working to overcome systems of oppression.

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Moving at the Speed of Trust: Disability Justice and Transformative Justice

An online conversation between Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Elliott Fukui on the intersections of disability justice and transformative justice.

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Easy Read resources about particular campaigns and social issues

Easy Read uses clear language with images so everyone understands. These guides provide information about campaigns and social issues.

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Accessibility: Introduction to Thinking about Events and Engagement

Introduction to thinking about accessibility engagement and events, providing a set of principles and key considerations.

Making Your Activism Accessible

This guide was developed to support activists in making their spaces, events, meetings and communications more accessible, in order to ensure that everyone is welcome and encouraged to join a movement for justice in whatever way they can!

Entablando un activismo accesible (Spanish – Español)

A Guide in Spanish to support activists in making their spaces more accessible, to ensure everyone is welcome & encouraged to join movements.

Digital Accessibility: Making Online Spaces Accessible

Tips, notes and presentation slides from a session at the FWD + Organise 2021 Conference about how to make online spaces more accessible.

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Accessible Online Meetings

Micro-course on making meetings inclusive and accessible for people who are Deaf or hard of hearing & people who are blind or vision impaired.

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Power Dynamics and Inclusion in Virtual Meetings

Learn how to facilitate inclusion, manage power dynamics and hold space with awareness and intentionality in virtual meetings and spaces.

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Improve your Website Accessibility

A comprehensive list of tools, checklists and websites to improve your website accessibility, e,g, standards, colours, documents, design, images, etc.

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The Intertwine Charter: Going beyond anti-discrimination and towards pro-active change to welcome others

The Intertwine Charter was codesigned to address intersectionality. It outlines 6 areas where organisations can improve and proactively welcome others.

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