I see. So it isn't really about choice. It's about *your* choice.
The concept is access. To provide access by whatever means works, so that people have an opportunity to participate regardless of their technological or physical talents. Without access, democracy is a sham.
Other people's need takes prescendence over your sense of aesthetics.
I think brick sidewalks are pretty, and old brick sidewalks are historically significant. The government has replaced a lot of that, and the cobblestones, with ramps. It offends my aesthetic sense, but people with wheelchairs have greater access now. It's too bad those weaklings in the wheelchairs couldn't just learn to wheel harder so that my sense of historical accuracy and beauty could be satisfied.
Get the picture yet?