Scoping questions
This guideline applies if you answer yes to:- Do you have attractions or activations like photo booths, games of skill or chance, body art, claw machines, or other similar activities?
Implementation guidelines
General
Queues- Wide enough for large power chairs.
- No tripping hazards or blocking obstacles on the floor or hanging from walls or ceilings.
- Hard surface or low-pile carpet.
- Reachable without a step greater than ½ inch or stairs. Where they exist, use an accessible ramp — or a wheelchair lift for multiple steps.
- Ramps: slope no greater than 8.3%, at least 48 inches wide.
- Test lifts before the event and every morning before doors open.
- Staff at the front and end of queues to bring gamers who can’t wait in line (due to endurance or other reasons) to the front.
- For guests who can’t interact with a prize-giving activity, provide an alternative (like a prize wheel spun by the guest or a staff member).
Cleanliness
Wipes- Sanitizing wipes at every station, a receptacle for used wipes, and staff monitoring stations.
- Ideally an automatic dispenser at every station.
- For body-painting, temporary tattoos, and similar: anything touching skin must be sanitized between guests.
- Ingredient list available on request.
- N95 masks available for air-gun cosmetics.
- Avoid scented cosmetics.
- Clean skin with an alcohol wipe before application.
Audio and special effects
Volume- Avoid overly loud audio. Louder is not better — it masks the environment for guests with hearing loss and triggers sensory processing issues for neurodiverse guests.
- Lighting effects should be free of flickering, rapid flashes, red flashes, and alternating patterns of contrasting colors.
- Avoid fog machines and other devices that emit fumes or odors.
Content
Triggering content- Where possible, avoid attractions containing gore, sexual violence, violence against children, drowning, spiders, and similar triggering content.
- If such content is unavoidable, obscure it from general view so guests have to seek it out intentionally.
- Post signage warning guests before they encounter it, and give them a way to opt out or ask staff for help.