That's fair enough. It's your challenge to run the way you want to. If that's the organizing principle though, I doubt I'm likely to want to participate in the melee. One constrained story is enough for me.

It's unclear to me why it was a privilege for those who completed their Duello submissions on time. The dead dog conversation suggested people were unaware that if they didn't do Duello they could participate in the Melee, and it's my impression that making that a privilege made it look like a game reserved for people participating in the Duello, a sort of round two instead of a parallel challenge run to address accesibility concerns.

The reason to stamp a metaphorical wheelchair symbol on something is to advertise that it provides value to people with accessibility needs. Otherwise those people are unlikely to magically guess that you're being accessible to them. I'd suggest it was moot because it was made to appear irrelevant, because if a community closes up shop until next year it doesn't look like an inviting place to keep posting.

If you don't want to make that commitment, I think I'd be willing to do it. Though it'd be easier if you could subscribe to a collection on AO3 already.