Permissions
On any of the platforms we use, whether analogue, digital, or real life, we welcome all forms and extents of involvement.
You can:
- begin and end when it suits you
- just watch, or participate, and change your mind any time
- stay camera off, mic off, and/or just use the text chat function on Zoom, or stay out of character the whole time and just chat to us or read on Discord
- take a break whenever you need it
- fidget, craft, move around: whatever helps you focus / engage / enjoy, even if it slows down the play
- multitask / deal with responsibilities that make demands on your time, if you need to
- overlapping talk, which we like to think of less as interrupting and more as harmonising with each other
- get excited: this makes us happy
- unexpected emotional responses: we can always take a break, and maybe consider and discuss
- OOC exclamations about the roleplay
- the sounds and sight of your children / pets / partners
- physical / vocal tics and stimming
- play a character who knows nothing about the island or its community, or the current story
- play a character we help you weave in to any extent
- play a character who is related to, or carrying, some of the (admittedly very limited) metaplot
- ask for some time with the other players, or one-on-one with admins, to help you get up to speed to join in - whatever that means to you, including chats about character/s, or even a more private go at roleplaying
- ask us to catch you up if you didn't follow some of the action but want to; other people might be grateful for the recap, and we have plenty of time
- ask for a pause to catch up on something you missed that your character would not have missed, or that you didn't understand but your character would have understood
- assume that the sciences work the same way
- assume real world / current affairs information is valid
- assume there's no actual magic...
The Access Accord
"To come to an accord..."Supported Space
Open Space Technology
Permissions
Specific Access Needs
Comfortable
Blog post: comfortable, uncomfortable
How to join us
The Copenhagen Interpretation
This is still (always) in development, but we intend to provide this information in other accessible formats
This is The Copenhagen Interpretation of an Access Accord v5. This draft is dated 17th April 2022, developed for ADHD-inclusive digital platform usage for The Broad Cloth R&D 2022, supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. The contents of this draft have been shaped by Jenifer Toksvig for The Copenhagen Interpretation with support from the ADHD Hive (Marie Moran, Claire Stewart, Ross Watt), Ellen Armstrong, David Bellwood, Martyn Blunt, Chloe Coleman, Diana Miranda, Flo O’Mahoney, Wendy O’Mahoney, Chloe Mashiter, Laurie Ogden, Erika O’Reilly, Teatro Vivo (Kas Darley, Mark Stevenson), Zoo Co, and pets, as well as those who came to play with us on Zoom and Discord during the 2022 R&D, in particular Mark Aspinall, Solomon Foster, Rachel Hebert, Lorena Hodgson,Amy Ledin, Sue Lee, Beatrix Livesey-Stephens, and Jennifer Lunn. Some of this process has been inspired by, or directly uses processes from, other people including Harrison Owen's Open Space Technology, and Kit Whitfield Thomas's observation that, when you have ADHD and you speak while someone else is speaking, you're not interrupting them, you're harmonising with them. Others who have inspired these things include FFRPG writers Debra Phillips, Kate Sinclair, and Jamison Yager, and theatre makers Phelim McDermott and Lee Simpson of Improbable, and Alan Lane of Slung Low. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Everyone is free to share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format), and/or adapt (remix, transform, and build upon the material) for any purpose, even commercially. If you use it and can let us know, you will be supporting our future fundraising work – thank you.
