You are making several assumptions there, partner. I’ve said nothing about my life experience but thanks. Typical response, though. I think I’ve been pretty clear that people with appropriate disabilities should and will be accommodated. DAS will not be the only accommodation provided.
Yes because then society basically shunted people with developmental and/or cognitive disabilities into institutions or hid them at home.
There's a difference between "voicing displeasure" and some of the things posted in this thread.
There are people with physical issues not alleviated by a mobility device who were already facing challenges being provided with accommodations. Every indication is that this will become even harder.
Huh?
“One has to think those vocally dismissive toward these changes (before even seeing how they work out) have been taking advantage of the system”
At this time we don't know where Disney will draw the line on getting DAS. My hope is that everyone receives the appropriate accommodations that they require. I also believe that before this change:
I have a friend with a condition that is slowly fixing his joints together, for whom it is very painful to sit in a wheelchair but also hard to walk (standing is ok) and he was basically told to get a scooter and drive through most queues.
I'm already watching standby line queue videos to get an idea where the exits are if I need them cause it at least helps a bit to know where the escape is.
I mean, if you think that Disneyland had an equivalent line-skip system to DAS or GAC circa 1955-1975, then I don't know what to tell you.
Same here but hey ignorance is bliss…
If you think people with disabilities were going to Disneyland (or really most public places of entertainment) in similar numbers pre and post ADA, then I don't know what to tell you either. Especially in that 1955-1975 timeline.
California and Florida both started requiring accessible features at public accommodations before the federal government. Both states even provided input to the US Access Board when the ADA Standards for Accessible Design were first developed.
Ok, well then I expect we will see news stories about people passing out in the lines, throwing up, and having panic attacks and other medical events in the queues of all the Six Flags Parks, Sea World, Universal, Busch Gardens, and local amusement parks any day now. Most of those have accomodations that are arguably even more restrictive than what Disney is moving towards with its new DAS rules. The comment I was responding to was from a poster who indicated that this was about to start happening in the Disney queues as a result of these changes. That was a ridiculously hyperbolic comment.
Not to make things worse, but most of those exits are not going to be intended for regular guest use. If they don’t trigger an alarm there is still a good chance they will deposit you backstage.
Very few people in this thread have denied the existence of DAS abuse.
She said her eyes can't stand the sun even with sunglasses. She also gave People a photo of herself at MK in the sun without sunglasses (in what appears to be a DAS section for a stage show based on the row of ECVs behind her, although maybe that's just a coincidence that a group of people all in ECVs were there at the same time). The vast majority of queues are either indoors or have some degree of shade from coverings or trees and shrubs. Slinky is the only queue I can think of that doesn't have adequate shade, even after they added some covering. Add it all up and there's no reason to believe she can't visit the parks without DAS.
