No, not really. Compliant venues are more common than non-compliant. Now, you may like such-or-such venue better, or it might be 10% cheaper, or it might fit 250 more people, or it might have a cool theme that suits your convention to a t, or it might be 20 minutes closer to the nearest airport, or it might have major…

• And how many doors are difficult to open.

It’s not like there’s any shortage of acceptable venues. When was the last time you were in even a moderately sized banquet hall or hotel meeting room that didn’t at least have a wheelchair ramp? Accessability been the law for a very long time. It’s kind of crazy that any non-accessable venues still exist, though…

To be fair, he’s completely incompetent. So he’s not just looking at the base costs and/or the small hotel set-up fee, because he ignored the problem until it bit him in the ass. At that point he’s looking at the rental plus several hours overtime for the hotel to set it up as a rush job, plus whatever their annoyance…

Disabled fans are paying fans, just like anyone else. Disabled guests are guests who are asked to be there.

I reached out to Joseph T. Berlant, the chair of this year’s World Fantasy Convention, and he responded that Ness’ problems were “the only incident reported” at the convention.

Then you do not hold a convention. You keep looking until you find a venue that is not discriminatory.

“...they ‘checked into resolving the issue’ and found that “the cost of doing so on short notice was prohibitive..”

Friend of mine is in a wheelchair all of the time.