[mokkos]

The real problem is that assistive technology is very slow to catch up with the technology and are expensive. For example, JAWS, one of the most popular screen readers, is around thousand dollars, and people purchase these type of software not on a regular basis and don't update year to year. Even if the screen readers catches up, it will be a while until the adoption spreads due to the high cost. Also, as you can imagine, disabled people do not make a lot of money ON AVERAGE (not saying you can't be well off being disabled), so upgrades do not happen often.

Another thing that sucks is that reader interface are not standardized. Try using JAWS, then Voiceover on Mac OS. Way you use them is very different and way it works is different too.

Accessibility is a tough problem, but I don't think we should hold back on using modern technologies and process. We should definitely have accessibility in our minds and know in our heads that it is hurting some users in using these new technologies however.