You know, I can conceive of it happening at a small, chill local con where you can expect most of the attendees to be in on the joke. That wouldn't make it a good idea, but I can conceive of it.
At WorldCon? At the biggest event in professional book-related science fiction fandom, the event where the Hugos are given out, an event that costs over $200 to attend? That's astonishingly unprofessional.
(And as someone who's been to just one WorldCon, I can only say, WorldCon gets a lot of old people. A convention with that many old people CANNOT give short shrift to accessibility. Not that only older people need accessibility, or anything, but the number of wheelchair and scooter users does increase as the average age goes up.)
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Date: 2012-09-03 07:54 pm (UTC)At WorldCon? At the biggest event in professional book-related science fiction fandom, the event where the Hugos are given out, an event that costs over $200 to attend? That's astonishingly unprofessional.
(And as someone who's been to just one WorldCon, I can only say, WorldCon gets a lot of old people. A convention with that many old people CANNOT give short shrift to accessibility. Not that only older people need accessibility, or anything, but the number of wheelchair and scooter users does increase as the average age goes up.)