Access Reports Link and Description

Eliza Chandler

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Access Reports Link and Description

Access Reports

You will be provided with access reports that detail the current accessibility practices of the cultural organizations you will be working with. The access reports will enable you to take an informed and strategic approach to creating meaningful, systemic change within cultural organizations, ensuring their access plans are grounded in both theoretical knowledge and community feedback. These reports will be based on comprehensive research conducted through interviews, focus groups, and surveys with staff and community stakeholders.

The access reports will serve as a foundational resource as you develop access plans tailored to the needs of their partnered organization. These reports summarize:

The profile of the organization – their size and scale, what their mandate is, who they serve, how they engage with community, and what makes them unique and the role they play in the cultural sector.
The organization’s current approach to access, as articulated in their access texts (e.g., access statements, policies).
Insights from interviews with organizational staff and community members, including disabled people who engage with the organization.
Key areas where the organization’s access practices can be improved, such as recommendations for more effective, disability-led, and justice-based access strategies.

By analyzing these reports, you will gain a deep understanding of how organizations currently understand and implement access as well as where they might expand their access knowledge and practices. These reports will facilitate your critical assessment of existing practices and identify opportunities for justice-based transformation. The reports will guide you in crafting unique access plans, including access texts, tailored to the organizations you are working with. These plans will help your organizations apply the principles of cultural accessibility, critical access, and disability justice to their workplace, public-facing activities, and interactions with their employees and the artists, curators, and community members they engage with.

Some questions to consider:

What is written and not written in the text?

How is access defined and described in the text?

Link: Access reports – Description