[il-talk] Blind defend rights of blind students

[Glenn Moore]

That was an interesting piece of information.
So it's said that we're under fire. In life you have to pick your battles and this is one worth winning. Quality public (or generally accessible) education is not only the most fundamental institution and valuable asset of a great society (because it arms its people against auto-incompetence and protects from descrimination and exploitation), but is far more valuable to those in this society who are dispossessed, marginalized, at-risk or underrepresented. The opportunity to advance our lives through aquiring knowledge and becoming wiser and more skilled within a playing field that obstructs these efforts to the least reasonable extent and creates the most equal opportunity for a person to experience consequences that derive from their own efforts and actions, and not from circumstances put upon them is a prime priority for the blind person with foresight (as well as any other minority individual); and this level playing field is practically the
 definition of democratic and free society. 
The effort required to offer this bar of fairness could not be much simpler. We aren't talking about some billion dollar infrastructure project to retrofit our cities or any highly inconvenient for the many mandate. It is simply the requirement th use infirmational materials that are, if not equally, at least accessible at all. As technology progresses and schools compete ever more with the new generation online schools, it will become difficult and rediculous to deny that it requires more effort to not offer equal access than to select the tools that are most useful to these schools' own students to be the mostcompetitive blind americans possible.
That's what i think.    

-G. ROBERT MOORE III