“Yeah our theater is wheelchair accessible.”
“Okay great”
*Gets there and every audience area is perfectly wheelchair accessible but the stage itself is either impossible to access or only possible to access from the outside*
It fucking sucked that all the other kids were able to jump up from their seats straight to the stage and one kid had to go all the way around through the wood shop.
It fucking sucked that (different building) I was calling kid’s parents to the stage and one of the kids’ dads had to sit in front of the stage. There’s a whole elevator for the small set of stairs outside the auditorium but no access to the stage at all.
I’m not a wheelchair user so wheelchair users can tell me if I’m way off base but sometimes it seems like when people make a space accessible they’re thinking “how can we get gramma inside to have a seat” and not “how can an otherwise healthy young person who happens to use a wheelchair get themselves inside and use this building for all of its normal functions.”