Category Inclusive Speaking Questions
Shared on Instagram and archived here, this section shares a series of questions you can ask yourself to identify gaps in your strategy and delivery, so you can become a truly inclusive communication professional.
“Do I systematically use different visual cues to convey meaningful information whenever possible, to diversify ways in which information is disseminated to audience members?”
More details about IPS Self-Assessment #013“Do I systematically make materials available in advance to allow audience members with learning disabilities to familiarize themselves with the materials and ask any questions?”
More details about IPS Self-Assessment #012“Do I systematically aim to optimize readability for your audience by sticking to lower case, sentence case, or camel case text presentations?”
More details about IPS Self-Assessment #011“Do I systematically go for bold foreground text, whenever possible, to help it stand out better against its background?”
More details about IPS Self-Assessment #010“Do I systematically minimize screen glaring for my audience, by relying on light gray colored backgrounds instead of white backgrounds?”
More details about IPS Self-Assessment #009“Do I systematically account for the fact that audience members with reading difficulties will not be able to concentrate on what I’m saying when they’re focused on reading the slides?”
More details about IPS Self-Assessment #008“Do I systematically recognize that audience members with reading difficulties may not have enough time to finish reading text-heavy slides before I move on to the next one?”
More details about IPS Self-Assessment #007“Do I systematically choose simple, monospaced or evenly-spaced sans serif fonts to improve the overall legibility of my slides or content?”
More details about IPS Self-Assessment #006“Do I systematically choose simple, monospaced or evenly-spaced sans serif fonts to facilitate reading?”
More details about IPS Self-Assessment #005“Do I systematically left-align my content to optimize its overall degree of readability on the screen or the page?”
More details about IPS Self-Assessment #004“Do I systematically stay away from large blocks, columns, or lines of text that run excessively long on the screen?”
More details about IPS Self-Assessment #003“Do I systematically forego long-winded blocks of text for more visually engaging and compelling ways to tell my story instead?”
More details about IPS Self-Assessment #002“Do I systematically keep the quantity of text used on the screen to a minimum to limit the cognitive load for my audience members?”
More details about IPS Self-Assessment #001