This is based on a completely incorrect premise. Disney’s lawyers do not know exactly what they can do because there is no specific guidebook outlining business operations. There are some regulations and case law they can reference but that’s not something known with certainty. Even the ADA Standards for Accessible Design don’t cover every scenario.
Maybe let’s wait to see what Disney does before discussing its legality.
No. It seems that what is being offered is the main group waits in standby. When they come off the ride then the person with the disability plus one care-giver then go through the LL line.
Ummm...what if the 3rd/4th person are children? Just gonna leave a child baking in the sun while he takes his wife on a ride?
You’re correct. Rider switch is not part of DAS.
Cm doesn’t verify the child is too short because the child doesn’t have to be too short. Anyone can not ride the ride for any reason (including they don’t want to ride the ride), and the CM will grant a rider swap. I did a trip recently with my BIL’s family and his son was afraid of many rides (including basic dark rides we didn’t expect like Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway) so we used it in those situations.
It sounds like the new accommodations that are being proposed will be better for you then. A return to line pass should fix this for you in a way that even the Lightning Lanes cannot. In fact, without this fix, the lightning lanes would continue to get longer and longer as more and more people qualified for DAS making DAS ultimately useless, so this is should be a good thing for you in that regard as well. I still maintain that everyone should wait and see what Disney’s Return to Line Pass actually looks like before attacking the company and others. People were outraged when GAC changed to DAS as well and in the end nearly everyone ended up adapting to DAS just fine.
Did you ask them if there would be an alternative (other than DAS) to allow him to avoid outdoor queue’s? Similar to how some rides that are not wheelchair-accessible (ie: SM) have alternatives for those in mobility devices. That might be worth exploring. Maybe you could even get return times for rides with outdoor queues instead of for all rides.
The e mail I got back said & I quote. This is the standard e mail being sent regarding DAS ( I'm guessing to avoid questions) please be sure to sign up for the call up to 30 days before y our vacation. I did see that was changing to 120 days
Epic Universe is not going to be a virtual queue park. Universal did at one point intend to go that direction for the entirety of the Universal Orlando Resort but their were too many issues with Race Through New York, Fast & Furious: Supercharged and, most importantly, Volcano Bay.
We don’t need to see what is done to know that there is not actually a very specific set of guidelines for businesses to follow as was being implied.
The evolutionary process from GAC to original DAS to this new version of DAS seems to be slowly whittling out certain disabilities.
That's what I find so sad about the idea of using the rider switch as a "viable replacement for DAS." Families are coming to be together.
thanks for clarifying - it's been a while since we've used rider swap, as DD craves the proprioceptive input she gets from rides, so she now rides basically anything that she can be physically safe on. There's a few that are not safe for her now. Hopefully someday.
