Gotta update my Disability Pride Dreamsheep icon...

Back from the con, and I just wanted to share a few quick Accessibility Department victory moment things:

1) Lots of people being totally jazzed about the services we offer, particularly the Accessibility Pass and the ability to take a person of your choice with you to skip lines (though also lots of people only just learning about said pass, which means I need to do a better job of advertising)

2) A "Cosplay For Spoonies" panel! It had some really good advice in general, and some that I am definitely going to steal for future Accessibility Department stuff

3) Okay, tonight, when we were basically all packed up and the pizza had just shown up for our "Thank god the con is over and we survived, yay!" party? One of my fellow staffers told me about a conversation he had with someone else, who was not only delighted by everything that AnimeIowa was doing to be accessible, but was planning on taking the evidence of our con being accessible to a rival con and tearing strips off their concom/convention executives/the people in charge of it for not being nearly as good and I just. For a department of two people, with the person in charge being completely self-trained and often having eir butt kicked by executive dysfunction... Yeah. I definitely did a tiny little victory dance.

I am sooooooo looking forward to making things even better next year ♥

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Covid test has been scheduled! I'm fully vaccinated, and I was even more persistently masked than most of my co-staffers, but with the number of people at the con over the weekend, and a good chunk of them coming from high Delta variant areas? Not to mention me working in the food industry, which has the most Covid deaths by job? I don't wanna take any chances, with myself or with my coworkers.

(I wanted to get tested today, but apparently Walgreens doesn't do same day testing, so I really hope my results arrive before I get to work on Wednesday. Or maybe I can request to show up late to work? Hmm...)

Edit: Covid test has come back with "Socchan does not have it", so I will be going to work less worried tomorrow. I may still end up masking the entire time for the next two weeks, but we'll play things by ear.