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Registration for paid research opportunities at Open
Thank you for your interest in being invited to paid research opportunities within the Open Inclusion disability and age-inclusive online community.
Please provide a few more details about yourself, your disability or age-related access needs, assistive technologies or adaptive approaches and some additional demographics such as gender, age and ethnicity. This should take approximately 5-10 minutes to complete.
This information helps us match you to research that is happening in your region and includes people with your experiences.
Required questions are marked with an asterix *
1. Accessibility needs and assistive technology
Sensory needs:
- D/deaf
- Hard of hearing or hearing impaired
- Tinnitus
- Blind
- Partially sighted / low vision
- Colour perception deficiency / colour blind
- Limited or no smell or taste
- Other sensory access needs
Physical needs:
- Cannot walk
- Cannot walk far or without difficulty
- Balance challenges
- Short of stature: under 147 cms or 4'10"
- Very tall: over 190 cms or 6'3"
- Lower limb difference
- Limited mobility (e.g. restricted movement, paralysis, muscular control.)
- Hand or upper limb difference
- Dexterity: limited strength (e.g. paralysis, arthritis.)
- Dexterity: limited control (e.g. tremor, spasms, spasticity.)
- Facial differences
- Obese
- Other physical access needs
Cognitive and mental health needs:
- Memory challenges (e.g. ongoing or fluctuating, dementia, brain fog.)
- Focus challenges (ADD/ADHD)
- Specific learning difficulty (Dyslexia, Dyspraxia or Dyscalculia)
- Generalised learning disabilities
- Social and/or sensory challenges (e.g. autism spectrum)
- Heightened anxiety
- Depression
- Post-traumatic stress disorder
- Eating disorders
- Substance abuse or other addictions
- Other mental health conditions (e.g. OCD, bipolar, personality disorders.)
Communication needs:
- Nonverbal
- Occasionally nonverbal
- Speech impairment (e.g. stutter, articulation.)
- Difficulty with word recall (aphasia)
- Other communication challenges
Chronic health needs:
- Chronic pain
- Heart or lung conditions
- Post stroke
- Cancer (current treatment / post treatment)
- Auto-immune disease (e.g. MS, Celiac, Arthritis, Crohns, diabetes.)
- Other long-term condition (e.g. epilepsy, ME.)
Other
- Other. Please describe
- Prefer not to respond
If you have more than one access need, what would you say is your primary need/needs? *
At what age did you incur your primary need ? *
Temporary access needs:
Digital and screen technologies, including hardware:
- Screen reader software (e.g. VoiceOver, TalkBack, JAWS, NVDA)
- Screen magnification software (e.g. ZoomText)
- Resizing/enlargement of text
- High contrast mode, dark mode, or other colour changes
- Refreshable Braille device
- Audio description of visual content such as video
- AI as assistive technology (e.g. for proofreading, summarizing or voice to text)
- Speech recognition software (e.g. Dragon, Braina, Voice Finger)
- Automatic captioning software (e.g. Otter.ai, Fireflies.ai.)
- Mainstream voice assistants (e.g. Siri, Alexa, Cortana, Google Assistant)
- Read aloud software (e.g. text to speech such as Read&Write, ClaroRead Natural Reader, Speechify, TextHelp)
- Closed captions/subtitles for audio content
- Relay Service App / Video Phone
- Alternative keyboard
- Alternative mouse or stylus
- Alternative touch screen interaction (e.g. stylus, knuckle or other non forefinger or thumb interaction)
- Switch navigation
- Joystick or trackball
- Head pointers, mouth stick, sip and puff or eye tracking
- Noise cancellation headphones or earplugs for sensory management
- Other digital assistive technology. Please describe
Please share the names of any specific software you regularly use (e.g. JAWS, Dragon NaturallySpeaking)
Printed media aids or adaptations:
- Magnifying glass
- Large print documents preferred
- Braille documents preferred
- Easy-read documents preferred
- Other printed media aid or adaptation (please describe)
Movement: mobility devices, aids and service animals:
- Power wheelchair user
- Manual wheelchair user
- Mobility scooter user
- Adapted private vehicle
- Prosthetic Devices (upper limb)
- Prosthetic Devices (lower limb)
- Walking aids – stability cane, crutch/s, frame
- Service animal (guide dog for navigational support)
- Service animal (other)
- Navigational, guide or symbol mobility cane
- Other navigational or mobility aid
Communication aids and alternatives:
- Sign language user
- Lip reader
- Cochlear Implant / Bionic ear
- Hearing aid/s
- Augmented assistive communication (manual or digital AAC)
- Wireless microphones (e.g. Phonak Roger series)
- Other communication aids or alternatives (please describe)
Personal support and home:
- I have a full time professional carer
- I have a part time/ occasional professional carer
- I have a unpaid carer support (family or other)
- I am a carer of a disabled or older person (paid / professional)
- I am a carer of a disabled or older person (not paid / personal)
- Smart home adaptations
- Hoist
- Adapted spaces (e.g. bathroom, kitchen, access.)
- Adapted products (e.g. kitchen tools, clothing/dressing.)
Other technologies or support:
- Other. Please describe
What research formats would you most like to be invited to? *
- Any paid research
- Online surveys
- Phone or video - conference based interviews
- Diary studies (conducted across a period of time such as recording a few videos across one week about a topic)
- Focus groups
- Product or service testing (such as mystery shopping for a retail organisations)
- Digital experience testing (such as testing a new app)
- Journey testing (such as train journeys or airports)
- In-person events
Were you referred by someone to the Open Inclusion's Research Community? *
- Yes
- No
Great. Please provide their first and last name or email
2. A bit about you more generally
What country do you live in: *
What region, province or state do you live in? *
What year were you born? *
Gender: *
- Woman
- Man
- Non-binary/non-conforming
- Other (please self-describe)
- Prefer not to respond
What are your preferred pronouns? *
- She/her
- He/him
- They/them
- Other (please self-describe)
- Prefer not to respond
How do you identify in terms of ethnicity and race?
Please self-describe as is most relevant to you. E.g. Black British, Japanese Asian or Asian Australian (please note that your identity does not necessarily align to where you live). If you do not wish to respond please write "prefer not to respond". *
Do you identify as coming from a marginalised ethnicity or race within the community you live? *
- Yes
- No
- I don't know
- I'd rather not answer
What research formats would you most like to be invited to?
Please select all that you are interested in. This doesn;t commit you to then saying yes to any specific research. You can always opt in or out. *
- Any paid research
- Online surveys
- Phone or video - conference based interviews
- Diary studies (conducted across a period of time such as recording a few videos across one week about a topic)
- Focus groups
- Product or service testing (such as mystery shopping for a retail organisations)
- Digital experience testing (such as testing a new app)
- Journey testing (such as train journeys or airports)
- In-person events
Thank you!
We look forward to sharing paid research opportunities with you soon.
We cannot know exactly when the next research opportunity will arise that includes respondents with your access needs and other characteristics. We hope that it will not be long.
At minimum, we will keep you up to date with research, awards programs and other happenings across the community via our quarterly newsletter so that you can keep informed and connected. We really look forward to learning about your perspectives in future research.
For now please engage with others across our community in discussions.
On the Open Inclusion community hub you can share challenges, find inclusive and innovative solutions, tell us and others about things you love or frustrations you have experienced. Come and get involved! It is a space that was designed by and for our community, and is continually evolving with your and other members input.

Registration for paid research opportunities at Open

1. Accessibility needs and assistive technology

2. A bit about you more generally

Thank you!