[Sca-cooks] Wheelchairs- OT- was Cooks Symposium Dec 4

[Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise]

> Now this is ridiculous. We have two very serious Cooks, who have a lot to 
> offer to any event, not just a cooking symposium, and they can't go because 
> the site's not wheelchair accessible. What can we do, to encourage 
> Accessibilty for everyone. 

First, start by NOT getting angry. Actually, start by finding someone 
calm-- unlike you and me, Phlip...-- and talking to them. There are 
accomodations that can be made, if there is a site issue, under some 
circumstances. One of my SCA bosses (yes I'm now the webminister for the 
EK Disability Porter) points out that accessibility isn't a black/white 
question, it's a spectrum. Sometimes sites that are wheelchair 
accessible aren't bad knee accessible, and vice versa, and then you get 
into the question of people whose accessibility needs may not relate to 
mobility. 

The best thing to do is to work together with the people running the 
event, to see what accomodations can be made. I'm not speaking for the 
Disability Porter, of course, because she's a wonderful person whose 
demeanor is NOT at all like mine. But she's fermenting some ideas about 
suggestions to make, I know.

-- 
-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, Knowledge Pika jenne at fiedlerfamily.net 
"I have always maintained that librarians are the ultimate 
share-your-toys people, and that the worst punishment you could inflict 
on any of us is to offer to show us an incredibly useful free resource 
but only if we swear not to tell another living soul about it."
-- Marylaine Block