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Okay, this is super preliminary, but since we've been talking about zoo accessibility I wanted to launch a project I've been planning for a couple months.

One of the hardest things about visiting zoological facilities when disabled is the lack of knowledge ahead of time, right? Often the information on the zoo's website about accessibility doesn't contain everything folk need to know to plan a visit. I think we can probably help fix that, even if it's with just crowd-sourced knowledge!

This is a google spreadsheet for recording accessibility information for various zoos. It is super unfinished right now, FYI. That's partially because I need to fill in more of it from my own experiences, and partially because there are things I didn't note or experience - which I'd love for y'all to chime in about.

Categories for the spreadsheet so far include rentable assistance options, service dog information, accessible bathroom locations, mobility, vision, auditory and sensory issues (or accommodations), food allergy options, and general notes. I'm also including the information each zoo website provides, and guest assistance phone numbers, so all the information is in one place.

To add to this crowd-sourced zoo accessibility resource:

I'll take information as it's submitted and integrate it into the sheet. If the zoo you've visited isn't on the list yet, I still want to add it! This resource is going to stay US-based, however. (I just don't have the capacity to manage an international one).

Obviously, I can't personally verify everything people submit, so this is very much a resource and not a definitive guide. Date stamps are crucial important for keeping track of what's recent and what might have been updated since someone visited.

Let's make zoo, aquarium, and sanctuary visits more accessible for everyone!

Okay! I think I've got almost everything that was added (via ask, reblog, or spreadsheet comment) integrated! Had to take a bit of time off for health reasons, but happy I can come back to it again.

I've added a bunch more categories based on your suggestions and contributions, including: parking, multi-lingual support, ride/show/transit accessibility, sun exposure, food & water, low/no cost entrance, support staff policies, options for SDs (bathroom spots, etc), behind-the-scenes accessibility, elevator locations, bench frequency/locations... it's getting huge but I think it's super important information.

I've done a bit of formatting to try to make the spreadsheet less visually overwhelming. Topics aren't in any particular order, although I tried to group related concepts together. Grey columns are for information copied from the facility website, and white comments are for the most important part of the spreadsheet: your comments and feedback! That way what's shared officially can be differentiated visually from what people have contributed.

Please feel free to send me more information and I'll update it as I have time.

Comments and feedback from personal experience are the most useful contributions. I'm going through as I have time and populating the information from the zoo's website, so while I super appreciate it when you send me that, you don't need to duplicate that work. What I want to know is what I can't find online!

How long are the hills? How's the path conditions? How did you feel like the staff reacted to your SD? Is the signage at wheel-chair level appropriate for adults, or just kids? That sort of thing is the meat of this project.

TIA.

Boosting this again! I always want to hear from people about their accessibility experiences at zoos in the US.

The way this spreadsheet works is that your comments are actively invited for any white column, all of which are labeled as "[topic] notes". The gray columns contain information provided directly by a facility. You can comment on the google sheet itself, reply to this thread, or send an ask or a message to WADTT.

Please tell me explicitly if you don't want your comments added to the spreadsheet as a direct (but anonymous) quotes. One goal is for this project is that zoos will be able to read direct feedback from their guests and learn from it, so I try to include as much direct feedback as possible, in your own words.

The types of comments that are the most useful are things a potential visitor can't learn online. Where do you get stuck in a wheelchair and can't turn around? Do the rides make loud noises? Where do you go to ask for help if you need it? If an example helps, here's the notes I just wrote up on my accessibility experiences visiting multiple zoos in California.

Also, you don't have to give me specific dates for your zoo visits. I asked for that to try to keep information current - just let me know if it was more than a year ago.

There's a lot of zoos listed that don't have their gray columns filled in yet - you're still welcome to add comments to those ones! Take the time to populate this spreadsheet takes a lot of time/computer stamina, so those will get filled out as soon as I have a chance. The feedback from people who have been is welcome whenever! And helps motivate me to flesh out those zoos, heh.

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me when i wanna talk about my special interests but i got the vampire autism where you gotta invite me to talk about smth first, otherwise i wont say shit or dont know what to say because i feel like im annoying

the thing about CC is that she did plagiarize. she was found guilty of plagiarism and banned from fanfiction dot net! she plagiarized pamela dean, among others, and lied about it repeatedly! it happened! and regardless of whatever else she writes, regardless of whether the publishing industry and her fans trust her not to do it again, regardless of how many times her wikipedia page gets scrubbed clean, that will always have happened! so it is not in fact cruel gossip, but a factually true statement, to say that she plagiarized and i'm not interested in supporting her or giving her the benefit of the doubt because she plagiarized and lied about it repeatedly! fuck!

what really incenses me about cassandra clare — and forgive me for bringing this up again, but i don't think i've articulated this point yet — is not that i believe she is currently plagiarizing. any accusations i've seen about recent work seem to me to be superficial. but even if one could prove that she never plagiarized again once she started publishing, it wouldn't matter to me, because she chose to capitalize on her fandom history. while trying to distance herself from what she did, she made a brand out of the fanfic pen name "cassandra clare" and continues to profit off the reputation and fanbase that she amassed while she was, provably, a plagiarist.

you don't get to do that and bury the things that made you famous. as an individual, as a human being, she is capable of change and any other good qualities you may want to ascribe. but she built her career on lies. professionally, i don't understand why she gets to move on.

the worst part for me--worse than building her career on plagiarism--is that her career was also built on a truly reprehensible level of harassment. she told her followers to help get her unbanned from FFN (as if that would ever happen) and they spent months harassing the site owner and several abuse team members. one of them, after enduring extensive abuse, ended up in the hospital.

this was just the beginning of the harassment, though. CC additionally used her friend heidi, a lawyer, to send cease & desist letters and other forms of legal harassment against ppl. none of it would hold up in court and these sort of things weren't even heidi's area of expertise as a lawyer, but it still happened.

CC was such a terrible serial harasser that people started to leave her alone about the plagiarism stuff after a while because it was just not worth her blowing up your entire spot. not just with her lawyer, but with her minions who harassed targets on her behalf. getting a deluge of harassment is a horrible experience that hurts people, so of course people tried to avoid it.

i hate CC because she hurt lots of people. she did it intentionally, repeatedly, and with singular focus on covering her own ass no matter who she hurt.

she has the career she has now because of her harassment of fandom as much as the plagiarism.