Disability rights advocates who spoke at a City Council hearing on disabled access to World Cup games and other 2026 activities slammed the city for persistently failing to ensure accessibility at a wide range of public events and facilities.

The hearing Tuesday began with city officials and an organizer for next year’s World Cup soccer events describing the work being done to make those activities accessible to people who use wheelchairs, are visually impaired, are neurodivergent or who have other disabilities.

That includes work now under way at Lemon Hill in Fairmount Park, where a FIFA Fan Festival will host thousands of people attending watch parties during the games next June and July. The city is adding new accessible paths, realigning curbs, rebuilding sidewalks with 12 new whe

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