Disability Pride month

Disability Pride month. #disabilityawareness

Disability is such a huge category.

The amazing disability pride flag has the following categories

Red: Physical disabilities

Gold: Cognitive and intellectual disabilities, neurodivergence

White: Invisible or undiagnosed disabilities

Blue: Psychiatric disabilities, including anxiety and depression

Green: Sensory disabilities, such as blindness, deafness, or loss of taste/smell

Before we start with our tips, please remember people are not defined by one characteristic!

We are not perfect and there is a lot more we would love to do but we try hard to make our events as welcoming, supportive and fun for as many folks as we can.

It starts with small changes.

Newest: Extending pointers. Great for pointing to the board if you are limited reach, or if you want to keep space between you and other players. It is really good for teaching games where you can say out of peoples person spaces.

Clearly identifiable volunteers (lanyards and Tshirts) helps folks with anxiety or similar know who they get support from.

Name tags, help with nervousness, poor memory, social anxiety. Our name tags also have space to include accessibility factors, we have seen face blindness, deafness and dyslexia.

Not photographed

Card Holders

Blood on the clock tower, Status Lanyards and Candles

containers for components- easy to pick up

Opting out and leaving games supported

Minor rule modifications like seating order, discard piles being public

Dicetowers.

Height adjustable tables

Visual impairment:

We have probably the largest collection of VI friendly games and are working on more! We only 9 games which require no sight, and are working on more which can be played with outsite and more that can work with a moderator