Yeah, no kidding. We live in this era where people with all kinds of handicaps can engage more and more with society in so many ways. Wheelchairs and the buil

Yeah, no kidding. We live in this era where people with all kinds of handicaps can engage more and more with society in so many ways. Wheelchairs and the building standards that open places up to access. Phones that can speak to you and parse your words and act on voice commands. A few weeks ago I saw a blind dude carry on a text message conversation on the bus, with someone he was going to meet, via his iphone. How cool is that?? Video game controllers that you can work with your neck movements and puffing breaths into an actuator tube. HOW COOL IS ALL THIS STUFF?? And when it's gadgets and gear, people geek out over it all day long. How cool that that one GNOME developer submitted his last patch--when he was nearly totally paralyzed--a few days before he passed on, right? Yet when it's building codes to open up physical spaces, suddenly the gubmint is burdening you? Fuck. that. All this stuff is up to us to decide--what do we care about? Building a society that serves everyone, including the most vulnerable? Or propping up a status quo that leaves the most vulnerable locked out? Sorry for the rant. Accessibility is important. Gets me riled up.