Well, 3 days at Megacon Orlando taught me how incredibly unwheelchair-accessible even supposedly accessible places can really be. It was a good thing I’m able to walk some on my own, because the Orange County Convention center was a nightmare. Too small elevators, tiny flights of steps or huge long ramps everywhere, elevators that didn’t go to every floor, banks of doors with no accessible button etc. #accessibility #PartTimrWheelChairUser #disability
And the convention organization itself was not great on accessibility either. They did accessibility things and then didn’t tell anybody about them. They had a special sticker for ADA patrons but I didn’t find out about it until the end of the first day because another wheelchair user told me about it. Nobody mentioned it when I visit the accessibility desk, nobody who scanned me in while was sitting in a chair mentioned it, the website said nothing. #Disability #Accessibility
@KestrelSWard I’ve had so many similar issues. Don’t even get me started on #doors.
@KestrelSWard It is almost impossible to open a door from a wheelchair. You can’t even wheel into a hotel room where the door automatically closes.
@AlliFlowers Yup. And even if you can stand and walk on your own, trying to get a door that automatically closes to stay open while you wheel the chair through is practically impossible without scratching the chair to hell
@AlliFlowers I had one to three people with me all weekend and most doors had an attendant who helped open them so it wasn’t until this afternoon I was like “wait....not one single button, wtf??”