I just appreciate the whole irony of this.

[mariness]

The Disability in Science Fiction panel at Worldcon/Lone Star Con did not have ramps to the stage. Because they knew I would be there (I use a wheelchair), they set up tables in front of the stage, so at least I could sit at the same level as the rest of the panelists. (At the Prose by Day, Poet by Night panel, which to be fair I was only added to about two hours before the panel started, I was on the floor and the other three panelists were on the stage.) The disability panel also did not have an ASL interpreter.

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Re: On ASL- how do we do this...

[mariness]

Does anyone at Arisia have contacts within the Deaf community? I ask because I am really out of my depth here and I don't know what that community wants or needs.

Re: On ASL- how do we do this...

[selkiechick]

We have a few, and I have talked with them. I am looking for some more help, and I have gotten some, which is part of how we are where we are, with a generous budget, and partial coverage that is in the hands of the people who need it.