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There's a commercial that's being shown on CNN International for EDF,
a huge global communications company based in France. (Is it being
shown in the US?):

"One is the loneliest number" plays in the background. A woman goes
into a bank and says, "I would like to open an account." The teller
begins to use sign language -- it's obvious he doesn't understand
her, and she doesn't understand him. Then you see scenes on the
street: most everyone in wheelchairs, happily rolling along, while
the few walking people cannot navigate the ramps the wheelchair users
are using, and the public phones ares all very low -- standing people
have great difficulty using them, and one of the wheelchair people
points at him, as though to say, "Look at the weirdo." Then you are
inside a library, and all of the users are blind, except for one guy.
He goes over and opens a book -- and it's all in braile, so he can't
read it. The commercial ends with a plea for "accessibility for all."