“Keep screen animations and other scrolling effects to a minimum in order to protect audience members who are more susceptible to motion sickness triggers.”Read more about Inclusive Speaking Tip #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?”Read more about IPS Self-Assessment #012
Inclusive speakers recognize that people with disabilities are people first, and that there can be no real gains in terms of diversity, equity, and inclusion…Read more about Appealing to different types of learners
“Always provide alternative, audio description tracks for your videos, so that audience members who only rely on hearing can still fully understand the content shared.”Read more about Inclusive Speaking Tip #012
Before we can consider how disabilities may impact the engagement levels of our audience members, we must establish ground rules with learning styles, identifying basic…Read more about Acknowledging the spectrum of learning styles
“Do I systematically aim to optimize readability for your audience by sticking to lower case, sentence case, or camel case text presentations?”Read more about IPS Self-Assessment #011
“Make sure colours used for meaningful text, graphics, and icons in your printed and digital content are sufficiently contrasted against their respective backgrounds.”Read more about Inclusive Speaking Tip #011
People have different learning styles, and speakers should be cognizant of them all, when putting together and delivering their content. As speaking professionals, we are…Read more about Learning styles and inclusion
“Do I systematically go for bold foreground text, whenever possible, to help it stand out better against its background?”Read more about IPS Self-Assessment #010
“Stay away from large blocks, columns, or lines of text that run excessively long on the screen, and left-align your content to optimize its overallRead more about Inclusive Speaking Tip #010
While retired seniors are unlikely to find themselves in our audiences, those who are still professionally active are very likely to be! What have you…Read more about How does ageing affect our audiences?
“Do I systematically minimize screen glaring for my audience, by relying on light gray colored backgrounds instead of white backgrounds?”Read more about IPS Self-Assessment #009
“Avoid ableist language, using words like ‘crazy’, ‘dumb’, ‘stupid’ or others that use disability as an insult, and cause micro-aggressions to people who have disabilities.”Read more about Inclusive Speaking Tip #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’reRead more about IPS Self-Assessment #008
As speakers, when it comes to the science of learning, we can learn a ton from psychologists and researchers. By becoming familiar with the most…Read more about How psychology can help you shape how people learn
“Always use a microphone when addressing the audience, because regardless of how loud you might think you are, some will still struggle to properly hearRead more about Inclusive Speaking Tip #008
As speakers, we spend a lot of time crafting our message and practicing our delivery, but we often create experiences that only resonate with people…Read more about Your audience is much more diverse than you think
“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 toRead more about IPS Self-Assessment #007