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NJ Climate Week
An interactive, New Jersey-oriented checklist for making community climate events genuinely accessible, from venue to follow-up.
An original guide for hosts on this platform, written as a working checklist. Tick items off as you plan; your progress stays in your browser and goes nowhere else.
Accessible does not mean perfect. It means a person can read your listing and know, before leaving the house, whether they can take part, and then find what you promised when they arrive. Most of this list is about confirming things yourself and saying plainly what you found.
It runs in the order you will need it: choosing a venue, arranging interpretation and captioning, writing the listing, preparing materials, running the day, and following up.
Tick items as you go. Progress is saved in this browser only.
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Start with the venue: step-free entry, accessible restrooms, and seating. Then plan interpretation and captioning before you publish, not on request. Finally, describe what you actually provide in the listing itself, so an attendee can decide without having to email and ask.
State step-free access, whether ASL interpretation or captioning is provided, transit and parking options, whether the event is free, and a contact for access requests. Saying nothing is read as no provision, so publish what you have even when it is partial.
Give a realistic notice window in your listing and set it from your own interpreter's availability rather than guessing. The practical failure is publishing a request path with a window too short for anyone to actually book, which reads as provision but is not.
Confirm step-free entry, accessible restrooms, and accessible parking, and get transit directions you can publish. Confirm these yourself rather than accepting a venue's general claim to be accessible, since that word covers a wide range in practice.
Say precisely what is and is not provided. Partial information lets someone decide for themselves; vague reassurance does not, and it costs attendees a wasted journey. Accuracy matters more than sounding fully equipped.
Yes. For anything online, turn live captions on rather than offering them on request, share slides in advance, have someone watch the chat for access problems, and record the session so people can catch up. Check that your platform works with a keyboard and a screen reader before you publish.
Yes. The venue items apply to outdoor routes too: firm, level ground, shade, seating along the way, and an accessible restroom at the meeting point. State the route length, the terrain, and whether there is a shorter option in the listing, so people can judge for themselves.
A quiet space is somewhere away from noise and crowds where a person can step out and come back. It can be a side room or a marked corner and does not need to be staffed. Even a small event benefits, and saying one exists in the listing lets people who need it plan to attend.