The Sundance Film Festival is making changes to improve accessibility for attendees with disabilities. The Ruderman Family Foundation on Wednesday announced a partnership with the Sundance Institute to provide more resources for attendees with disabilities and to include a greater amount of programming featuring people with disabilities, including an opening-weekend film, according to Hollywood Reporter.
Our take: Extending accessibility using assisted listening devices, among other resources, is becoming a selling point for attractions hoping to win over the one in five people in this country who have a disability. Successful initiatives happen when CVBs, attractions and local disability organizations work cooperatively to go beyond compliance. If you accessible-ize it, they will come. At Sundance, theaters have CC, AD and ALD devices that can be requested from theater staff at the start of an event and retrieved by them afterward. All theaters are additionally wheelchair-accessible and offer seating for attendees with disabilities and companions
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