Inclusive Student Life Checklist
Complete the Inclusive Student Life Checklist to find out how you can improve your organisations accessibility and inclusivity to disabled students.
How can I use the Inclusive Student Life Checklist?
- Complete the checklist.
- Review the feedback solutions (sent to your email and available below).
- Discuss with your committee members and identify action points.
- Implement changes.
- Complete the checklist again to show improvements.
| Question | Yes | No | Solution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Do you have plans and procedures that ensure access to your events, resources, and activities for disabled students? | We have a clear procedure for responding to accessibility requirements and ensuring that all students have access to our resources and activities. | We do not have a procedure for this, it is unclear whose responsibility accessibility requests are or what steps need to be taken to ensure that they are responded to. | Check out the Trinity Inclusive Student Life Guidelines for information on how to make your events, resources and activities inclusive to disabled students. |
| Are you familiar with the Trinity Accessible Information Policy and Equality Policy? | We follow the Trinity Accessible Information Policy and Equality Policy when planning activities. | We do not follow the Trinity Accessible Information Policy and Equality Policy when planning our activities. | Read through the Accessible Information Policy and the Equality Policy. Discuss the key points with your committee and create a plan for implementing them. |
| Do your events and activities take place in accessible spaces? Trinity Physical Access Checker | We ensure that our events take place in spaces that are fully accessible. | Our events are hosted in spaces that are not accessible or partially accessible. We do not always ensure accessibility is prioritised when booking spaces | Consider physical access from the beginning stages of planning an event. Check out the Trinity Inclusive Student Life Guidelines or this video on planning an inclusive event. |
| Have your committee members attended a Disability Awareness Workshop with the Trinity Ability co_op. | Multiple members have attended Disability Awareness Training or met with the Trinity Ability Co_op. | We have not attended Disability Awareness Training or met with the Trinity Ability Co_op. | Disabled students in the Trinity Ability Co_op have been equipped to deliver trainings to clubs, societies, SUs and publications. Reach out to them at [email protected] for more information or complete the workshop request form. |
| Does your event promotion and social media information contain a statement about accessibility and requesting accommodation for people with disabilities? | We use the Trinity Accessibility Statement Generator to share the accessibility of our events. | We do not have a statement about accommodation requests. We have not used the Trinity Accessibility Statement Generator. | Use the Trinity Accessibility Statement Generator to share the accessibility of your events and activities. |
| Are all committee/team members familiar with the availability and the use of the Irish Sign Language Interpreters, captioning/transcription on and alternate accessible document formats? | The process of asking for accommodations and delivering on them, such as booking an ISL interpreter or providing alternative document formats is part of handover training. | Committee members are not provided with information. | Find out more in the guidelines or in the Trinity Accessible Information Policy. |
Do you have an officer responsible for accessibility and/or inclusion? | We have a position focusing Most/all committee Check out the Towards Inclusive for accessibility and/or inclusion? on accessibility and/or inclusion with a clear and defined role who works alongside all other officers. | Most/all committee members are unfamiliar with accessibility. | Having an accessibility or inclusivity officer means that members with disabilities have a point of contact in the organisation. Make sure that people are aware of this role and how to get in touch with them throughout the year. |
| Is your social media accessible? Check out some Social Media Accessibility Tips if you are unsure. | Our social media is accessible. The committee member who manages our social media is familiar with accessibility features and updates like captioning and alternative text. | The committee member who manages our social media is unfamiliar with accessibility features or does not implement them in every post. | Check out the Trinity Inclusive Student Life Guidelines for information on social media accessibility. General things to consider: – Use of alt text on social media images. – Captions on videos. – Using high contrast colours and sans-serif fonts in graphics. |
Are your publications and documents accessible? Check out Trinity INC’s Accessibility Tips if you are unsure. | Our publications documents like PowerPoints, printouts and PDFs or websites are in accessible formats and available in alternative formats upon request. | Our publications documents like PowerPoints, printouts and PDFs are not in accessible formats. | Check out the Trinity Inclusive Student Life Guidelines for information on publication/document accessibility. General things to consider: – Using heading styles in documents. – Ensure that PDFs are tagged. – Using alt-text on documents and websites. – Complying to web accessibility standards |
