Is Your Workplace Inclusive by Design?

15 Sept 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief presentation, the speaker advocates for an "inclusive by design" approach to workplace accessibility. They argue that inclusion for people with disabilities and neurodivergent individuals must start at the design stage, encompassing both the physical layout of buildings and the way policies and practices are written. Beyond merely making documents technically accessible, the speaker stresses the importance of readability and understandability for a broad audience. They also highlight the need to broaden the conversation to include mental health and neurodivergent considerations, insisting that all these elements should be integrated during the initial design phase to create truly inclusive workplaces.

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Inclusive by design, I, I do like the phrase. Obviously, uh, our company does focus on inclusion for people with disabilities in the workplace. So when we think about things like accessibility and inclusion in our workplaces for people with disabilities and neurodivergence, we need to think at the design level, how we design our physical spaces in our buildings. We need to think of how we're writing our policies and our practices. Practices, not just is it in an accessible document, but is it readable? Is it understandable by a wide audience? So when we consider some of these broader tangents to disability and accessibility and we get into more neurodivergent inclusion and mental health inclusion and some of these other tangent areas, we really find this need to go back to the design phase and really how we're designing our policies, our practices in the workplace to be inclusive for everyone.