A Mickeyfan
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- May 31, 2000
One thought I have is the guests using wheelchairs, ECVs, walkers, etc. are very visible to the CMs besides having been told to stay to one side so we were all grouped together in the stretching room. Even then, there were 4 groups when we went the last time. We were kind of widely spaced and the last group was slow gathering their party. The CM was in front of the first guests, so the rest of us were just following along at a distance from the CM, hoping we were following the path we were supposed to be on because we could not see the CM or the first group.
Guests with invisible special needs look just like other guests in the dark, so on e they are in the room, the CM may have no idea who needs assistance unless they have something visible like a mobility device or a white cane. I wonder if it would work for them to give those 'invisible' guests something that glows in the dark as they come into the building and first make their needs known to the CM. Maybe a card on a lanyard, similar to the red ones they use for wait times. They could be different in some way to mark the needs - like does the guest need to board at the unload area; will the guest board on the 'regular' boarding area, thru a back door, etc. Those would stay with the guest and could be collected by the CM at boarding. Something like that could prevent the invisible guest from being 'lost' in more ways than one.
So you see how dark it is and for those with low vision, it is a real danger to them I think your idea is a great one as far as having some sort of special pass showing it, but I wonder if it really would work. My GAC states low vision, it is highlighted in bright yellow. It also has Alternative Entrance stamped on it. I do tell the CM's at the very front entrance, I tell the CM at the door of the dark holding room, and then I skp the stretching room.....and well, you have seen from my posts what I have gone thru even with all of that. I have not been back to the HM since early January. I do plan on going there the second week of March so I will see how it goes then. Like I said, you have a great idea, but in reality, if they aren't looking at what I have on my GAC, I wonder if they will look at what is on a special pass...