
A kickass guide to making literature events accessible to disabled people Founded by @EverDundas & @Julie_Farrell_ Bookseller 2022 Top 150
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ALT White background. Lower left: black ink smudge with a coral line squiggle and a series of coral ink splats. Text reads: “One festival only had stage access using rickety steps without a handrail. The whole format is to assume that nobody with walking difficulties or a wheelchair is going to speak.” - Penny Batchelor

ALT Teal background with a pixelated black ink smudge lower right, a black line squiggle lower left and a patch of white. Text reads: “Disability narratives are overwhelmingly white, as are judging panels and arts organisations dealing with disability. It doesn’t reflect society.” - Khairani Barokka

ALT Coral background with a swathe of white at the bottom which is partially obscured by a black ink smudge lower right and a black ink splat lower left. Text reads: “I feel nervous going to events because I know there are always gaps in access. That can be an emotional burden for disabled people, and it will be discouraging people from going to events.” - Maud Rowell

ALT The cover of the Inklusion Guide: coral, with swathes of white, blue, and yellow across the bottom with Ink splats. The logo is top right: ‘Inklusion’ in black letters apart from ‘us’ in white in the middle with a black ink splat in the background. Two white semi-circles frame the word above and below with two ink splats, one bottom left, the other top right. The heading is in large white letters: ‘How to make your literature events accessible.’ Tope left is a white rounded-corners square with an illustration of a book and ‘Easy Read’ next to it.

ALT The greyscale cover of the Inklusion Guide with the title in large bold black letter and the subheading below in smaller lettering: ‘A kickass guide to making literature events accessible for disabled people.’ Below that it says in bold: Large print edition The greyscale logo is top right: ‘Inklusion’ in black letters apart from ‘us’ in white in the middle with a black ink splat in the background. Two grey semi-circles frame the word above and below with two ink splats, one bottom left, the other top right.

ALT White background with a pixelated black ink smudge lower right with a coral line squiggle and black ink splats. Text reads: “There’s a risk that events will say ‘we don’t have wheelchair access, but it’s available as hybrid.’ This excludes disabled people from the in-person experience, reducing access, rather than improving it.” - Jamie Hale

ALT White background with a swathe of coral lower left overlaid with pixelated ink smudge and a black ink line squiggle. Text reads: “I’d like to socialise but there’s no interpreters. All the speeches are covered, but the networking isn’t. So, I’ve stopped going to those kinds of events.” - Bea Webster

ALT The Inklusion Guide on a table. The cover is coral, with swathes of white, blue, and yellow across the bottom with Ink splats. The title ‘Inklusion Guide’ is in large white letters, with the subheading in small black type below: ‘A kickass guise to making literature events accessible for disabled people’. The logo is top right: ‘Inklusion’ in black letters apart from ‘us’ in white in the middle with a black ink splat in the background. Two white semi-circles frame the word above and below with two ink splats, one bottom left, the other top right. Sitting across the cover is a postcard with the Inklusion logo in the centre and subheading below. It has a yellow background with a small swathe of white across the top and black ink spats top left.

ALT A quote in black font on an off-white background with black splotches in the bottom-right-hand corner says: “There’s a risk that events will say ‘we don’t have wheelchair access, but it’s available as hybrid. This excludes disabled people from the in-person experience, reducing access, rather than improving it.” - Jamie Hale

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ALT Two copies of the Inklusion Guide on a grey surface with an ink splat top right. The first copy shows the cover: coral, with swathes of white, blue, and yellow across the bottom with Ink splats. The title ‘Inklusion Guide’ is in large white letters, with the subheading in small black type below: ‘A kickass guise to making literature events accessible for disabled people’. The logo is top right: ‘Inklusion’ in black letters apart from ‘us’ in white in the middle with a black ink splat in the background. Two white semi-circles frame the word above and below with two ink splats, one bottom left, the other top right. Next to it, a copy of the guide is open to a doublepage spread of the ‘Employ Disabled Staff’ section. There’s a swathe of green top left beneath the title, a white background, text, and stats boxes, alongside some ink swirls and splats.












