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 [log in to unmask]