Disability rights advocate James LeBrecht is “furious” with CBS after it seems the network didn’t fulfill its promise to install a fully accessible, visible ramp on the Emmys stage.
“They lied to me,” LeBrecht told Variety Sunday while watching the awards show. “I got my hopes up.”
Ahead of the Emmys, LeBrecht, who co-directed the Oscar-nominated “Crip Camp,” and the Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund filed a complaint of Ada violations, after being informed that the stage, built inside a tent on the L.A. Live Event Deck in downtown Los Angeles, was inaccessible from a front approach.
But on Friday, LeBrecht told Variety that he received a letter from CBS informing him that their concerns were being addressed. “CBS Entertainment has informed my lawyers Dredf and Michelle Uzeta that anyone sitting in the audience will have unimpeded access to an Ada-compliant ramp to the stage, and that the...
“They lied to me,” LeBrecht told Variety Sunday while watching the awards show. “I got my hopes up.”
Ahead of the Emmys, LeBrecht, who co-directed the Oscar-nominated “Crip Camp,” and the Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund filed a complaint of Ada violations, after being informed that the stage, built inside a tent on the L.A. Live Event Deck in downtown Los Angeles, was inaccessible from a front approach.
But on Friday, LeBrecht told Variety that he received a letter from CBS informing him that their concerns were being addressed. “CBS Entertainment has informed my lawyers Dredf and Michelle Uzeta that anyone sitting in the audience will have unimpeded access to an Ada-compliant ramp to the stage, and that the...
- 9/20/2021
- by Marc Malkin
- Variety Film + TV
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