Events include many types of attractions and activations — photo booths, games of skill or chance, body art, claw machines, and more. Keep gamers with disabilities in mind during concept and design to ensure activities work for guests from vision, hearing, speech, neurodiversity, and fine motor disability communities.
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.
Flooring and ramps
- 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.
Where possible, wrap ramps around the entire perimeter of a booth. Guests can enter from anywhere and it removes tripping hazards created by standalone ramps.
- 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.
Prizes
- 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.
Hand sanitizer
- Ideally an automatic dispenser at every station.
Cosmetics
- 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.
Photosensitivity
- Lighting effects should be free of flickering, rapid flashes, red flashes, and alternating patterns of contrasting colors.
Special effects
- 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.
None currently. 