You might hope that the risk of legal damages would spur better technological solutions. Businesses won't take these issues seriously unless it impacts their bo

You might hope that the risk of legal damages would spur better technological solutions. Businesses won't take these issues seriously unless it impacts their bottom line, so that's the point of these laws. There's also virtuous cycle here: sites that are more accessible to screen readers would generally have better semantic markup, and be better for machine parsing, too.