> bear their own problems Sure, but these problems were anticipated in the design of, certainly later, HTML specs. One example: the ALT text tag for images, wh

> bear their own problems Sure, but these problems were anticipated in the design of, certainly later, HTML specs. One example: the ALT text tag for images, which has been part of the spec since at least HTML4, originally published as a recommendation in 1997. Every image on your website(s) should have ALT text to be screenreader friendly and, if it doesn't, that's on you: it doesn't make using images an inherently bad or accessibility-unfriendly idea.