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Disabled Access For Your Events
A guide to providing robust accessibility options for your venue and/or your event, from a disabled man.
If you manage a venue or if you run events, accessibility is a great thing to consider. Most venues just include a note about the level of wheelchair accessibility in a given venue, but wheelchair access is more nuanced than someone who’s never used one might expect, and wheelchair-users only make up a small portion of the disabled community.
Some people might think, hey, disabled people are a minority of the population, how many people who use chairs or frames really go out to venues anyway? Why put in the effort?
As a disabled man who uses a cane and can’t stand up for significant periods of time, and who has friends who use other mobility aids such as wheelchairs and rollators, I can count the number of venues that I would be able to invite all my friends to on one hand — there is a huge dearth of broadly accessible venues, let alone venues that pay attention to and consider the importance of accessibility.
When I find a venue that works, I not only regularly return to that venue with my friends and loved ones, but I widely recommend it to anybody who might need an event space. The more robust a venue’s access considerations, the more…
