Do a web search on George Covington, a blind photographer and gadfly
   advocate for "Universal Design" on how to make stuff accessible to the
   visually handicapped.

   A new book called "Universal Design" by George and Bruce Hannah gives
   some wonderful examples of creative design solutions for people with
   varying degrees of disabilities.

   BTW, one of the quirky things about democracies is that they don't
   only respond to the interests of majorities.  That, in fact, is why
   the Senate is not proportionately representative (2 senators from
   Montana and two from New York); and a principal rationale behind the
   Supreme Court.  Protecting the vital interests of minorities is one of
   the brilliant achievements (though only imperfectly realized) of
   modern American government.

   So, for the minority of Americans who like to go to museums and
   non-commercial music and dance concerts; or who value historic
   buildings and the meanings they contain; or who think that botanical
   gardens and science museums are vital to the well-being of
   communities; or who have physical disabilities which need special
   accommodation, let's hear it for bending over backwards to help
   minorities. If strict majority interest were all that mattered, the
   country would be much poorer in diversity (no federal funding for
   museums and the arts in general, I would suspect.)

   Or, should we prefer Scrooge "Are there not workhouses for the poor?"

   Eric Siegel
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