I spent about 15-16 years designing, building, and installing accessibility devices from the late 1970s to the mid 1990s and while I get the point of the articl

I spent about 15-16 years designing, building, and installing accessibility devices from the late 1970s to the mid 1990s and while I get the point of the article I think it almost completely ignores how much progress has been made over the past 40 years. I've seen mandatory curb cuts and wheelchair ramps, elevators for homes and offices, the huge advancements in electric wheelchairs with joystick controller that progressed from 8 directions and two speeds to variable controllers that provide fine grained progressive speed and directional controls and up to 30 miles of range, vehicles retrofitted with power wheelchair lifts and automatic door openers, hand controls for throttle and brakes, and advanced driving systems that C4-C5 quadriplegics can safely drive by themselves, all of it during just those years. And, of course, the passing of the "ADA" (Americans with Disabilities Act) was enacted during that timeframe and had, and still has, a huge impact everyday on the real life mobility and inclusion for all those in wheelchairs. I can certainly understand how someone who's recently been required to use a wheelchair to get around suddenly realizes how many obstacles there are for those in wheelchairs, but I'd have to point out to them how far we've come in the past few decades and how many have good people I've worked with who dedicated years of their lives to increasing both mobility and accessibility to get where we are today. Those I worked with back then are still my heroes.