Federal lawsuit challenges Disney's disability policies as too restrictive

I'm not sure I have anything to say that hasn't been said before, but I do have a question. How did Disney...and really any park...handle people with disabilities leading up to the early 00s? Did those folks essentially self select out and not visit parks or did they just suffer through the regular line?

I ask because the story talks about a huge increase in DAS passes from 5% to 20%. I'm assuming that's of all people visiting Disney parks. I can imagine that it's a lot to handle. Are more folks with disabilities visiting parks because of accommodations or are more people, disabled or not, attempting to get passes?

I keep wondering if there is a way to mitigate this...like a way to make it so folks with disabilities don't have to wait in line, but that the deal isn't so attractive that able-bodied people don't take advantage of it.

“This isn’t right. This isn’t what Walt and Roy would have wanted,”

Start up the rotisserie.

I'd wager that the general American's with Disabilities Act in the early 90s paved the way for these programs. Lawsuits citing the ADA starting really popping up in the late 90's and early 2000's that then created case law that business and industry abide by today.

Others might be able to answer better than me, but I think generally speaking we learn more and more about disabilities (and abilities) in the medical world upon each passing decade. I doubt that more people have disabilities today than did historically. I think we just understand disabilities better...and families understand their rights now.

But yes, I suspect these policies are abused too, and that is revolting.