Yes. A famous quote from Milton is, “Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?” I think that encapsulates the whole idea. Anybody would be required to have the tools at their disposal. In my own experience at law school, I received a lot of files in the first year that I found to be inaccessible. I had to go through the student services department to get them translated from the PDF documents over to Word documents. At the end of first year, I was able to get a grant to cover a lot of technology and training to go with that technology.
In second year, when I was serving as the secretary for student government, I was given a host of formats—JPEGs, PDFs and all sorts of things. I knew how to perform the optical character recognition. I had the software and the ability to do that. In a way, I became more able.
When we're thinking about accessibility, it's accessibility to an individual. It ends up being a very tailored process, in some cases. There's a lot of talk about the concept of universal design, and some question as to whether that's truly possible, or if the only universal design will need an inherent level of flexibility to accommodate individual differences. What I, as one blind person, may be able to access currently, with my technology and training, would be inaccessible to another person. Of course, this is just within this one focus, this one specific disability. There's a host of them.
What we really should be working towards as a society is creating consultation groups that can speak about the host of challenges—mobility challenges, mental challenges, hearing and sensory challenges. There is a host of ones that I probably can't even think of, because I'm not a specialist in that field. We need more specialists in that field, and those consultations need to happen with builders and constructors at the creation of the infrastructure. If we take this proactive approach, I think we'll be incorporating a lot more people, and giving better effect to a commitment to diversity.