Three things that we can do right away are these: One, we've got to get accessibility—and we have to stop waiting to try to be perfect—fixed in our building codes. This is critical to not only pre-planning, when we do our space planning, but to all of the rest of our budgeting. It has to be in the legislation.
Having additional accessibility standards is useful for the things that fall outside of the jurisdiction for the building codes, but the building codes themselves have to be rewritten. We've spent too much time tinkering with a small section that has been designated to accessibility. It has to be rewritten from top to bottom, because disability is a part of the human experience in everybody's lives. You're either born with a disability or you get a disability through illness, accident or aging. Fixing the building codes is priority one.
Two, you must use enforcement, and use the penalties, if necessary, that are written into the act. Nobody is taking this act seriously—