Access to information, being able to participate in discussions of current events, having knowledge of the world is part of what generates full cultural citizens. Yet, possibilities for understanding, for interpreting these images on one's own, were not available to blind people. Not only do blind people have rights, under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), to the same "culturally salient" information to which everyone else has access, the exclusion of visual imagery the lack of descriptive news coverage - further perpetuates the oppression of blind people by conflating the association of blindness with a lack of knowledge - blind people become the "problem" for not knowing what is so-called "obvious" when in fact it is really a lack of access to information that is the problem.