Column: Despite ADA, challenges remain
July 25th, 2010By Roger Bradley in the Ft. Myers [Florida] News Press:
How will our community reduce the 80 percent unemployment rate for people with disabilities in an area already saturated with unemployment? How will our community provide adequate transportation services which are so essential to avoid isolation of the disabled community during an era affected by an atmosphere of budget reductions? What can we do to remove the non-physical communication barriers inherent in the cyberspace medium of the World Wide Web?
In the future, we shouldn’t need legislation to motivate our community to make accommodating changes for anyone. The economic and societal benefits of doing so should be obvious, in addition to the fact that it is just the right thing to do.
Bradley is the executive director of LARC of Lee County, Florida.

