On the article about backsliding public and private agencies in access, There are a couple human overriding principals we all fall prey too: We will ALL find some reason to hate and fear anything or anybody different. Any of you who think you're never prey to this failure don't know your selves well. There is no doubt that it is very expensive to provide access and that many such provisions spend a lot of money to serv a relatively small number. The vapid "rarely true" belief that all accessibility provisions make the world better for the nondisabled is wishfull thinking in almost all cases. A Deeply embedded belief that disabled people should REALLY have free access will take generations to become a part of usual thinking. It's always gonna be a struggle and we will always have to do things again and again. We don't have to like it, just recognize it. If you don't believe this, ask a black person or a native American. Tom Fowle VICUG-L is the Visually Impaired Computer User Group List. To join or leave the list, send a message to [log in to unmask] In the body of the message, simply type "subscribe vicug-l" or "unsubscribe vicug-l" without the quotations. VICUG-L is archived on the World Wide Web at http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/vicug-l.html