Access does not simply mean being physically there and able to use such and such facilities. Access does not simply mean being able to function to a certain degree in an employment situation. Access does not simply mean technology. For me, access means being alive and spiritually a part of the society as a whole. Access means being able to function and participate independently in human affairs on one's own terms and within one's means and abilities.
Access means being able to fulfill one's own individual potential.
In short, access means being able to participate and function as an accepted and fulfilled human being. For me, access means drifting down the Mississippi River on a raft with Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. It means creating a succulent devil's food cake from scratch. It means retreating from Moscow across the frozen Russian steppes with Napoleon's exhausted troops. It means understanding how the brilliantly beautiful butterfly could be magically transformed from an ugly caterpillar.