[dang]

I don't know a good solution. Those concerns are for sure legitimate, and at the same time it's tiresome when complaints about website formatting crop up often in threads. Especially because meta complaints show up about those complaints, and then meta meta, and so on.

Perhaps the solution is for people to express accessibility concerns to the proprietors of the websites in question, instead of to forums where the concerns are most likely not going to be seen by the people who would need to fix them.

The watercooler aspect of HN goes back to the beginning, btw: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8314 - though it's true that I've been citing it more lately.