> But medical research leads to treatments which may have far better quality of life improvements than ramps. And when discovered, those treatments can be used

> But medical research leads to treatments which may have far better quality of life improvements than ramps. And when discovered, those treatments can be used forever, whereas ramps require constant spending for every new or renovated building. I think you make a good point here. Likewise, making software accessible, e.g. to blind people, requires effort for every GUI toolkit and non-trivial application. In the short term, that work has to be done, because it would be wrong to just leave blind people without a way to independently access software that might be critical to jobs, education, etc. But if we started funding research into curing or preventing all of the various causes of blindness now, then we could eventually solve the problem permanently. I'd have to find a different problem domain to work in, but I might be retired by then anyway.