Accessibility needs ramps before it needs another expensive device (sightlessscribbles.com)
The essay’s central contrast is concrete: a costly stair-climbing wheelchair is easier to pitch than better doorknobs, ramps, and accessible buildings. Readers expanded that criticism to semantic HTML and other basics whose value is broad but whose funding story is less glamorous.
The strongest dissent matters too: new assistive technology can expand where someone can go, even if it does not excuse inaccessible infrastructure. The practical failure is treating one as a substitute for the other.
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