Complain about what the committee did. Don't make up stories about what they thought. It doesn't promote mutual understanding.
Odds that they consciously decided to write off disabled attendees because it would be too much trouble to plan for them: approximately zero.
Also, I'll bet you a pound of good chocolate that the fake programming track and disability access fell under two different departments.
Negligence in not planning for elevator crowding and disabled access when these are problems at almost every worldcon: definitely some.
Negligence in not planning around elevators when every worldcon held in that facility has had serious crowding and access problems: rather more.
Negligence in making a dumb joke in the program listings: IMO, best handled by requesting the next SMOFcon to explain it in detail to the responsible parties. Added benefit: all the other worldconrunners will get to hear it.
While we're on the subject, I'd like to note that the person in charge of programming made a complete botch of the pre-convention program participant questionnaires. I'd have sworn that that was a debugged technology. I'd also have sworn that anyone who knows anything about programming would be aware that first-round questionnaire results have to be edited, not just concatenated and sent out as the second-round questionnaire. I'm not the only one who noticed that bits of correspondence from first-round respondents to the committee were accidentally incorporated into the second questionnaire. Good thing none of them were notably sensitive or embarrassing, but that was purely a matter of luck.
My credentials: I was one of the electric scooter users at the convention, and it was my third worldcon at that site. I missed substantial portions of the convention because I couldn't get through the elevator jams.
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Odds that they consciously decided to write off disabled attendees because it would be too much trouble to plan for them: approximately zero.
Also, I'll bet you a pound of good chocolate that the fake programming track and disability access fell under two different departments.
Negligence in not planning for elevator crowding and disabled access when these are problems at almost every worldcon: definitely some.
Negligence in not planning around elevators when every worldcon held in that facility has had serious crowding and access problems: rather more.
Negligence in making a dumb joke in the program listings: IMO, best handled by requesting the next SMOFcon to explain it in detail to the responsible parties. Added benefit: all the other worldconrunners will get to hear it.
While we're on the subject, I'd like to note that the person in charge of programming made a complete botch of the pre-convention program participant questionnaires. I'd have sworn that that was a debugged technology. I'd also have sworn that anyone who knows anything about programming would be aware that first-round questionnaire results have to be edited, not just concatenated and sent out as the second-round questionnaire. I'm not the only one who noticed that bits of correspondence from first-round respondents to the committee were accidentally incorporated into the second questionnaire. Good thing none of them were notably sensitive or embarrassing, but that was purely a matter of luck.
My credentials: I was one of the electric scooter users at the convention, and it was my third worldcon at that site. I missed substantial portions of the convention because I couldn't get through the elevator jams.