Have you ever filled out an accessibility or adjustments passport? It’s a format disabled people often know all too well; you’re sent a word document for you to list your diagnoses, fill in some text boxes with your most personal, private information, and then send it into someone else’s inbox, not knowing where it might end up, or what will happen as a result.
Accessibility passports should be designed to enable disabled people, to break down the barriers that prevent us from accessing our education, work, and lives. And yet, in reality, they often present us with more barriers, such as:
- Cognitive barriers, like trying to understand what we’re being asked of with vague questions of “what do you struggle with at work?”
- Emotional barriers, like feeling vulnerable about being asked to share very intimate information with business owners, managers or coworkers
- Digital accessibility barriers, like filling in PDF documents that aren’t compatible with our screen reading software.
Diversity and Ability’s team of disabled and neurodiverse inclusion experts have the solution: AXS Passport. AXS Passport heralds a new, inclusive approach to passports, with a digital tool that gives everyone the opportunity to share their needs in the way that feels best for them, all while maintaining ownership of their own data.
Using AXS Passport involves signing in via the website or app and simply ticking off the requirements that fit you. It’s specifically designed to include everyone, regardless of whether you identify as disabled or not. You have the ability to share everything from dietary needs, to caring responsibilities, to physical access requirements, all on one digital platform. Plus, it’s completely free for individuals to sign up; create your AXS Passport now!
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