I'm generally supportive of accessibility requirements, but I'm not sure they're the only way we can get to where we want to be in this regard. GUI apps are gen

I'm generally supportive of accessibility requirements, but I'm not sure they're the only way we can get to where we want to be in this regard. GUI apps are generally much more accessible than Web apps are, but that's not because of legal requirements; it's because the vendors of GUI operating systems and widget toolkits took the time to make the parts of those things app developers used accessible out of the box. All you had to do to make your app accessible was color within the OS' lines and use the standard widgets. If you did that, you got accessibility for free. The Web platform, on the other hand, has no standard widgets; everybody invents their own, and because making those widgets accessible requires more work, nobody does that. Things like Bootstrap are a step in the right direction in this regard, but are still a long way behind the things that GUI app developers were taking for granted 20 years ago. If we want accessible Web apps, we need to make developing accessible Web apps easier than developing inaccessible ones.