Though everything you say is true, it misses my point.  If disability
groups wait to see what happens, then all the shortcomings you predict may
indeed be built in to the system.  This is exactly the time to begin to try
and influence development.  On line delivery of materials is certainly
doable, especially as text book publishing is dependant on digital
mastering anyway.  My school, though offering only a two year program at
the moment, is accredited.  Private companies are looking into this
potential market seriously, at least out here.  If we as disabled people,
or disability advocacy groups want this educational potential to become
more than a promise, we must educate the educators of its value and
potential profitability.  I sincerely believe there is a pretty significant
untapped market here.  Schools, in spite of their claims to the contrary,
are money driven, and FTSE driven, which is the same thing, like any other
business.  I think a successful appeal to good old greed may be the lever
necessary to make on-line learning systems a real aid to disabled people.
Every school won't embrace it, but the ones that do, and hit the market
first, could do pretty well.

As you say, nothing is proven, but nothing ever is if we all just sit back
and wait for it to fail.  We need vision, excuse the pun.

I step down from my soap box for tonight.  Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

Bill