Okay. So your argument is if a service is provided for free and there is no commercial gain for the provider, it should be exempt from accessibility requirement

Okay. So your argument is if a service is provided for free and there is no commercial gain for the provider, it should be exempt from accessibility requirements. Furthermore, you argue free online courses satisfy these two tests and thus should be exempt from accessibility requirements. There are several lines of attack on this argument. The first is against your contention that these institutions enjoy no commercial gain. There are clear PR gains from offering these courses, both through engendering goodwill and increasing prestige. I am not saying these courses are offered only for PR reasons, but it is difficult to deny their effect. The second line of attack is against your belief that free goods & services should not be subject to accessibility requirements. You use the example of a soup kitchen. Here I will digress for a moment and say I believe analogies are an exceptionally poor form of argument in civil rights contexts, which operate on abstract principles such as the value of equality. Thus an emotional appeal to our intuition about what is mean-spirited is unlikely to be useful. Returning to the argument at hand, we can question what is special about a free good or service which enables its exemption from accessibility requirements while remaining consistent with our principles of equality. So, I pass the ball back to you - what is your answer for this question?