Wow, when Universal announced their change there was worry from some (myself included) that Disney would follow suit and require paperwork to get
DAS because so many disabilities are difficult or can cost thousands to diagnose and if you're able to manage it day to day, why spend the money and time going to the doctors office?
Now however, I feel like most of us wish Disney would have followed Universal and required the IBCCES IAC instead. Preventing abuse makes sense, but excluding all disabilities except developmental ones seems too extreme.
This sounds like Disney has made things way worse for anyone with a non-developmental disability.
I'm not sure how they will be able to explain how a reasonable accommodation is only being offered to certain types of disabilities though. How can they justify that the same reasonable accommodation does not apply to someone with a different type of disability? This seems like discrimination against certain types of disabilities and while I'm sure Disney lawyers reviewed this - it seems like a class action lawsuit is coming as they are discriminating (picking and choosing which disabilities to offer an accommodation to).
I also wonder how the "return to queue" will work - what if you had a bathroom emergency and could not make it out of the queue in time? Some queues are exceptionally long, not even counting battling people trying to walk the wrong way through a queue.
It wouldn't surprise me if Disney revises this again shortly as they realize that there are many situations where this will not work for people.
For many years Disney has been known to be very welcoming for those with disabilities and worked with anyone needing assistance - if they move towards limiting DAS to only those with developmental disabilities and the "return to queue" is as bad as it sounds, it seems like it would be the end of that.
To be honest, it surprises me that Disney would publish this information in such a way that excludes so many people after their push to be more inclusive in recent years. They didn't release enough information for all that are no longer covered by DAS to reassure them that their disability will be accommodated in some way.