I support this petition. In addition to the points raised in the boilerplate, there remains the fact that in the United States, the progress of law is marching steadily (if slowly) toward protection of technology access for the disabled. As a matter of policy, Americans should have a public authority of their own to whom they can turn when there is a need to buttress law with cold, hard, facts. If the Institute is closed, the number of those "public authorities" at hand will be reduced by one - a consequence that I suspect will leave all users of technology demonstrably worse off.