It s true. We all walk through automatic doors, power doors. The impact goes beyond people with disabilities. Curb cuts today are used by bicyclists, mothers with strollers, computer repairmen or postmen pulling their carts. What s good for those of us with disabilities is great for everyone else.
Life is so much better.
And yet we have to be ever vigilant about attacks on the ADA and on our civil rights. There is also a bit of a backlash. A few folks out there feel that just too much money has been devoted to people with disabilities to the detriment of the greater good. At the same time, too, we re bumping along in an okay status, but we re not making big jumps to overcome the unemployment rate among the disabled. We, the disabled, are kind of a docile group.