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The enhanced security at @emeraldcitycon this year means there's going to be one (1) ADA entrance, and it's not convenient to the parking garages. Expect me to be in a lot of pain by, oh, the time I get inside.
(Please note that the main elevators, which have historically been in high demand by both ADA attendees and vendors during load-in/people with strollers, are all the way over by the new "exit only" doors.)
There ARE elevators by the new ADA entrance, but they are functionally going to be the ONLY ELEVATORS convenient to both entrances, meaning they're for ADA attendees, people with strollers, and people transporting goods to the exhibit halls.
And while this is on society, not on this specific convention...people are already DICKS about letting wheelchairs and scooters on elevators. Even though everyone gets where they're going faster if they're polite about loading mobility devices.
(Load one scooter/wheelchair--two if they fit without risking damage--first, then fill in the space around them with standing people. Yes, a wheelchair user that got there after you might get on before you. But otherwise, DOZENS of standing people might get on before them.)
(Upon reaching your destination, all the standing people get out, bar one, who holds down the "doors open" button. The mobility device and user exits. No one's toes get run over. Everyone has a nicer day.)
So yeah, this is going to suck like nobody's business, and while I appreciate and applaud the need for enhanced security, "let's pretend that the disabled and people who use mobility devices are not a big part of our community" is not a solution.
Signed, an author and comic book creator who is literally booked solid by YOUR PROGRAMMING almost every day of the convention, and now can't even send someone to get her a soda to take her pills with, because you've decided to go for more security than either SDCC or NYCC.
