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Setting up an Accessibility Book Club

Beverley Newing, Accessibility Lead at the Ministry of Justice Digital and Technology, describes how they set up an ‘Accessibility Book Club’.

The club helped Beverley to create accountability, to ensure they were setting aside time to read and hear about the experiences of disabled people. The club can read books, or watch films/documentaries/TV series, but the item has to be about (or written by) someone disabled, or be on the topic of disability.

Beverley suggests using an online location as a meeting point, e.g. Google Meet. Create a calendar placeholder and a series of questions to serve as discussion prompts. Finally, create a Slack poll (or similar) so that the next media item can be voted upon.

The author has open-sourced a “collection of resources to help run an accessibility book club”. The linked app is down at time of writing, but you can access the resources on GitHub.

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