No Offense to the "Handi-Capable", but... (Score 0)

I don't think that auto manufacturers should be required to create cars that drive themselves for the blind, or make other accommodations for people of other disabilities.

I'm not uncompassionate to the misfortunes of others, in fact the town I live is a leader-blind city, they train the dogs here, they have installed beeping/talking crosswalks, etc.

Very nice! But at some point we have to just say sorry, this just wasn't designed for you! Web applications (whether flash based, web 2.0/AJAX, etc.) in particular are designed to provide feature-rich, VISUAL interaction. These tools are created mostly to increase productivity, simplicity, and hopefully more intuitive interfaces.

Frankly, we have bigger fish to fry... and its simply not feasible/economical or in some cases even technologically possible to ask the web developer to build accessibility in to a web-based application.

Informational websites, on the other hand have come a long way... most screen readers don't have a problem with these types of sites. Not to mention rss feeds etc, which I'm sure the blind have a high appreciation for.

So while there is some progress on this front, I just don't see how its ever going to be fixed. One day, the technology will be there to supplement vision, so there is that. Until then, it seems like tunnel-vision (excuse the pun) to expect any law or enforcement mechanism (unlikely) to fix the problem.