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But when I asked about accessible seating, I was told I had to wait until the official public on-sale date.<\/p>\n
Not ideal, but okay. I followed the rules.<\/p>\n
Tickets went on sale at 9 a.m. Dan called the box office at 9:11.<\/p>\n
Eleven minutes after tickets went on sale, every truly accessible seat was gone.<\/p>\n
None left.<\/p>\n
In a venue that holds 1,900 people.<\/p>\n
To be clear: there were still a few so-called \u201caccessible\u201d options, but they weren\u2019t genuinely accessible for me as a power wheelchair user. Pavilion seating would require me to transfer from my wheelchair, which I can no longer do. Lawn seating meant navigating uneven terrain and competing for space in ways that felt more like survival than inclusion.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s not meaningful wheelchair accessibility.<\/p>\n
And that\u2019s what\u2019s so frustrating.<\/p>\n
Accessible seating is supposed to remove barriers for people with disabilities\u2014not create new ones through systems that effectively shut us out before we even have a fair chance.<\/p>\n
I did what I was told. I waited. I followed the process.<\/p>\n
The process failed.<\/p>\n
This is what disability access often looks like: not always blatant exclusion, but policies and procedures that sound reasonable on paper while producing inequitable outcomes in real life.<\/p>\n
Living with MS already means thinking ahead about mobility, energy, transportation, and logistics.<\/a><\/strong> Something as simple as attending a concert requires strategy. So when even buying accessible concert tickets becomes another obstacle, it\u2019s more than inconvenient.<\/p>\n It\u2019s exhausting and discouraging.<\/p>\n Because accessibility shouldn\u2019t depend on luck, speed, or whether the system was designed with your real-life needs in mind.<\/p>\n It should mean equal opportunity from the very beginning.<\/p>\n This experience isn\u2019t just about one O.A.R. concert. It reflects a broader pattern many disabled people know too well<\/a><\/strong>: being told to wait, trust the process, and follow the rules, only to discover the system was never truly built for you in the first place.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t believe anyone intended to exclude me.<\/p>\n But intent alone doesn\u2019t create access.<\/p>\n Action does.<\/p>\n And until accessible seating truly prioritizes equitable access for the people it was created for, too many of us will keep finding ourselves left out before the music even starts.<\/p>\n \n \n \n \n The post 11 minutes, 1,900 seats, and not 1 for me: when accessible seating feels anything but accessible<\/a> appeared first on A Couple Takes on MS<\/a>.<\/p>\n