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If offering food intended to serve as a meal, organizers should ask for food allergies and make sure those people are covered, including proper labelling of the

If offering food intended to serve as a meal, organizers should ask for food allergies and make sure those people are covered, including proper labelling of the food that's offered. This usually affects other attendees too, since it just sucks to know a colleague will have to go hungry until he can get McDonald's at 11pm because no one knows what may or may not contain nuts (or worse, gets wrong info and ends up having an anaphylactic shock) Same with mobility impairments. Organizers should make sure every important space is accessible if they have attendants in wheelchairs etc., including toilets.

jasongi 4y ago
It’s not enough to just make the event accessible to those with disabilities and make the food accessible to those with dietary requirements. You need to advertise it. If you don’t advertise it you’ve done it for nothing. Nobody is going to rock up in a wheelchair unless they know they’ll be able to get in the door. If you aren’t saying what dietary requirements you are catering for in event descriptions then anyone who has them is going to eat beforehand. If in order to make your event to be accessible you require extra actions before the event on the attendee then it’s not accessible. Airlines are the worst at this. At so many of them if you have dietary requirements or accessibility needs you have to make phone calls, send emails or go to obscure desktop only sections of their website after booking. If you want to be accessible then provide the information upfront and learn the right things to ask for in order to make requests seamless.