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Equality and human rights mainstreaming: equality impact assessment

This equality impact assessment (EQIA) results report provides a summary of the key findings from the detailed work undertaken to assess potential equality impacts of the equality and human rights mainstreaming strategy, action plan and toolkit.


Recommendations and Conclusion

Monitoring and Evaluation

Data collection priorities:

  • User accessibility feedback
  • Technical barrier reports and resolution tracking
  • User satisfaction across different demographic groups (where voluntarily provided)

Key mitigation measures:

  • Periodic accessibility audits with disabled user testing
  • Regular review of curated resource accessibility standards to ensure continued compliance
  • Email feedback mechanisms for accessibility issues
  • Clear guidance on browser compatibility and workplace IT requirements (to be included in toolkit)

Review schedule:

  • Regular accessibility feedback analysis
  • Voluntary user feedback collection and analysis
  • Regular review of equality impacts on staff users through available feedback channels

Contact

Email: mainstreamingstrategy@gov.scot

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