University of St Andrews

Event and Meeting Inclusion Guide

Purpose:

1) Create a positive work/study place so people feel included within a team or as a group by promoting and fostering good relations amongst people without bias.

2) Create an environment which adapts to changing requirements - legal duty for reasonable adjustments - to eliminate exclusion experience.

3) In compliance with the Equality Act (2010); Public Sector Duty (2011); and key Diversity Awards, it is essential to create a system for inclusive engagement initiatives (events/meetings/seminars) so everyone has equality of opportunity to participate. 

4) Create training materials that are accessible, do not reinforce stereotypes and that are both representative of and for a diverse range of people.

Action: select the following for examples of inclusion:

• Venue Accessibility
• Timing
• Participation
• Content
• Presentation
• Alternative Format
• Diet and Health

30 July 2020 note re Microsoft Teams accessibility:   

• The Microsoft Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology service is built-into MS Teams, providing an option for text captions.  To use live captions in a meeting, go to your meeting controls and select More options ... > Turn on live captions.  
  
• MS Teams Accessibility support webpage