AXELROD ACCESS

Since 1999 I've tramped the world to technical standards meetings, first in eLearning then in accessibility of eLearning. The work is fun but my goals have been to do what I could to move the world towards being more inclusive. I believe we will all be happier if we can move away from the notion of groups of people where some groups are given less opportunity to participate in our world than others. Technology can do an awful lot to enable participation by all persons and we would all be more prosperous and happy if we can use it that way. Businesses would have larger markets, governments would be able to do their work more effectively and there would be less stress. And we simply can't afford to waste talent by allowing it to go undeveloped by excluding people from joining in this society... A vision of the world where everyone can participate sounds naive - as if we can solve world peace, world poverty, global species depletion and global warming all in one day. The reality on the..