I think of better accessibility as being better usability, and thus 'accessibility measures' as 'good ideas' per se for any infrastructure that cares about its

I think of better accessibility as being better usability, and thus 'accessibility measures' as 'good ideas' per se for any infrastructure that cares about its users -- of course, the problem is that many organizations do not. I actually randomly get reminded of this now and then, when I: - open a door with an elbow instead of greasy or occupied hands - tab through a UI or use alt key shortcuts to quickly perform repetitive tasks not worth automating - take carts, bicycles, and other heavy objects up accessible ramps, kerb ramps, or mandatory lifts - read alt tags of images that fail to load or that the file host has lost - search in or read the captions/subtitles of media that doesn't get to the point - read captions when I can't play audio - machine-translate autogenerated captions from unknown languages Not to mention all that gets taken for granted that wouldn't exist had it not been required. Edit: Found a submission about just this while searching for your past rants:) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30062178 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30062178 In the disability spectrum chart linked there, the figure with a sword and round shield illustrating the 'Heavy Accent => Speech x Situational' case is brilliant; going far backwards in time guarantees linguistic distance from any viewer.