Making Space for Wheelchairs and Scooters
Sun, Jan. 24th, 2010 08:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
These guidelines come out of my experience working on WisCon, a 1000-person annual convention in a recently remodeled hotel.
There are many elements to making your event wheelchair-accessible. While U.S. law requires minimal wheelchair access, never rely on a venue's general assertion of "oh yes, we're accessible." Those little wheelchair stickers? Anyone can buy them and post them at will, even at the bottom of a flight of steps.
There's an entire shelf of 2-in (5,08 cm) thick books on this topic;( Consider this the wordy Twitter version )
There are many elements to making your event wheelchair-accessible. While U.S. law requires minimal wheelchair access, never rely on a venue's general assertion of "oh yes, we're accessible." Those little wheelchair stickers? Anyone can buy them and post them at will, even at the bottom of a flight of steps.
There's an entire shelf of 2-in (5,08 cm) thick books on this topic;( Consider this the wordy Twitter version )