Originally Posted by
rehoult
You're required to breakout attendant fees separately, as they do for airfares. It can be the same price, but you have to note that.
Re: Translation / sign services, I hope you stick argumentative providers with the bill flyquiet. The ADA is crystal clear that it's up to the facility and event organizer to provide the service or pay for it, so if they want to fight about lunch changes, they can stick it.
Having said that, I truly appreciate when people organize the services that they need or assist me in doing do so for them. I've run a lot of events, and people who want ADA followed to the letter end up frustrating everyone, including themselves. Yes, you legally can choose not tell me in advance that you need a hearing loop in every room of our 50 person charity event, but that isn't going to make them magically appear. Why not just write me ahead of time to ask for the accommodation?
Although I like to have the event at least meet halfway on the bill, I generally make the arrangements because I have spent thousands of dollars to attend a conference having filled in the "what accommodations do you need?" field and arrived only to discover that "we must not have downloaded that field from any of the forms", or to have the organizers subsequently refuse to provide the service when recomfirming ahead of time, or after making the arrangements interrogate the interpreter privately as to my attendance, or book truly atrociously unqualified people. There is truly a long way to go. I don't know many people who turn up as a "gotcha" unless there is a reasonable expectation of universal accessibility due to the nature of the event. More likely a misunderstanding, compounded by chronic experiences of being excluded getting temperatures up.