Accessibility is a harsh mistress [dive into mark]

"When I was an accessibility architect at IBM, I assisted in the final stages of ensuring that Eclipse’s Graphical Editing Framework was fully accessible to blind people. ... During one particularly difficult teleconference, an Eclipse developer muttered something like, “You realize no one is ever actually going to do any of this, right?” There was an awkward silence as the people who had spent their lives in the trenches of access enablement contemplated the very real possibility that no one would ever benefit from their work."