[Inaudible—Editor] alike rose to applaud in May 2005 as they voted in unison for a law that made accessible workplaces legally mandatory. Supports are important. Education is important. Encouragement is important. You need detailed, enforceable, strong, and effective accessibility standards and a deadline—we have 2025—or all of those other tools will not live up to it.
There was a debate for a while whether you could achieve this through voluntary measures. Through the unanimous vote of our legislature in 2005 it was made clear that debate was over. It's got to be strong and effective mandatory accessibility legislation. If you want to learn more about this, I'd be happy to give you more at another time, but if you go to our website, aodaalliance.org, you'll see that we put forward proposals for how to implement the law and put in those supports that are entirely sensitive to difficult budget and deficit times.