Edmonton venues in need of accessibility upgrades [Video]

A local wheelchair user is drawing attention to the vast differences in accessibility features at Edmonton concert venues.

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Raven Van Camp started using a wheelchair five years ago after discovering it helped with their myalgic encephalomyelitis, also called chronic fatigue syndrome.

“The exertion of walking places was causing my illness to get worse quicker than it should have,” they told CTV News Edmonton.

“Lots of people talk about being wheelchair-bound like, ‘Oh, that’s the saddest thing,’ but for me it was a freedom.”

Van Camp and their husband both enjoy live music, but quickly noticed the wheelchair made going out much more complicated.

“Smaller venues, the downside is usually they are in a back alley, or you go down a back alley to get into the stairs. But then there’s also five or six sets of stairs. You have to go up and down, up and down, and then usually …